Whether the Court hears arguments in the cases, decides to stay out or deals with emergency requests to freeze lower court opinions, 2019 could make or break President Donald Trump's agenda. Francisco requested that the Supreme Court take up the issue this term. Trump has said he assumed the Supreme Court will eventually have to take up DACA, and has also maintained any court action will figure in to how he and Congress eventually address immigration legislation. So we'll see how it works out at the Supreme Court." When a district court judge ruled against him on the asylum ban, for instance, the president called the judge "an Obama judge" suggesting that the motives were political.

Source: CNN December 16, 2018 13:07 UTC