Upcoming DACA Arguments in the Supreme Court: Ted Olson and Janet Napolitano Defend DACA

On November 12, the Supreme Court will hear arguments on legal challenges to the Trump administration’s rescission of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals policy.  Expect many news stories about the upcoming arguments.  GOP powerhouse  Ted Olson, Solicitor General under President George W. Bush, will be one of the attorneys arguing the case for those challenging the rescission and defending DACA.

Edith Roberts on SCOTUSBlog collects some of the news about the upcoming Court arguments:

“At CNBC, Tucker Higgins reports that Janet Napolitano, secretary of the Department of Homeland Security under President Barack Obama and now president of the University of California system, “will head to war against President Donald Trump in a blockbuster fight at the Supreme Court,” in Department of Homeland Security v. Regents of the University of California, a challenge to the government’s decision to terminate the DACA program, which allowed immigrants brought to this country illegally as children to apply for protection from deportation. In an op-ed for The New York Times, Benjamin Eidelson suggests that `[b]y resolving the case on narrow grounds, the justices could steer clear of the political fray and their own jurisprudential divisions.’”

In other immigration news at the Supreme Court, Greg Stohr reports at Bloomberg that “President Donald Trump’s administration [has] asked the U.S. Supreme Court to throw out a California immigrant-sanctuary law that restricts local police from helping federal authorities round up and deport people who are in the country illegally.”

KJ