The justices on a 5-4 vote upheld lower court rulings that found that Trump's 2017 move to rescind the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, created in 2012 by his Democratic predecessor Barack Obama, was unlawful. The ruling does not prevent Trump from trying again to end the program. But his administration is unlikely to be able to end DACA before the Nov. 3 election in which Trump is seeking a second four-year term in office. The court's four other conservatives including two Trump appointees, Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh, dissented. Trump's administration has argued that Obama exceeded his constitutional powers when he created DACA by executive action, bypassing Congress.

Source: The Star June 18, 2020 14:26 UTC