It's a momentous week for Supreme Court decisions. On Tuesday, the court ruled that LGBTQ+ workers are protected by a federal law that bans discrimination, and just two days later, the majority of justices voted to block the Trump administration from ending the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.
The 5-4 ruling in favor of DACA—a 2012 program that protects immigrants brought to the US as children from deportation—was written by Chief Justice John Roberts and joined by Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Elena Kagan, Stephen Breyer and Sonia Sotomayor. The decision upheld lower court rulings that found Trump’s move to end the program was unlawful and emphasized that the administration failed to provide an adequate reason to justify ending the DACA program.
"We do not decide whether DACA or its rescission are sound policies," Roberts wrote in the majority opinion. "'The wisdom' of those decisions 'is none of our concern.' We address only whether the agency complied with the procedural requirement that it provide a reasoned explanation for its action."
While the administration can attempt to end the program again, the ruling keeps DACA intact for now, protecting nearly 700,000 young immigrants from deportation.
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