The court’s liberal justices probed the administration’s justifications for ending the program, expressing scepticism about its rationales for doing so. After contentious debates among his aides, Trump announced in September 2017 that he would wind down the program. Lower courts have ruled that the two programs differed in important ways, undermining the administration’s legal analysis. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said Tuesday that it was impossible to disentangle the administration’s legal rationale from its later policy justification. But Gorsuch said he had doubts about whether it was the role of the Supreme Court to review the administration’s decision to terminate the program.

Source: bd News24 November 12, 2019 22:28 UTC