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BREAKING: Supreme Court Rules Against Trump Admin On DACA, Roberts Strikes Casts Swing Vote

Emily Zanotti
BREAKING: Supreme Court Rules Against Trump Admin On DACA, Roberts Strikes Casts Swing Vote
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Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts dealt a blow to the Trump administration Thursday morning, authoring a 5-4 decision reversing the administration’s effort to bring an end to the Obama administration’s Deferred Action on Childhood Arrivals (DACA) Act with an executive order.

In the decision, the court appeared to suggest that the Trump administration moved too quickly to strike the program and did not go about reversing DACA in the correct matter, though it does not outline what it believes to be the right procedure.

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