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Thursday, June 18, 2020
Trump slams ‘horrible’ rulings after Supreme Court immigration defeat
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleUS President Donald Trump fires an extraordinary broadside at the US Supreme Court’s “horrible & politically charged” decisions, after it rules against his bid to scrap protections for hundreds of thousands of undocumented migrants.
In two tweets, Trump brands the nation’s highest court biased against conservatives, saying their decisions are “shotgun blasts into the face of people that are proud to call themselves Republicans.”
“Do you get the impression that the Supreme Court doesn’t like me?” Trump asks.
These horrible & politically charged decisions coming out of the Supreme Court are shotgun blasts into the face of people that are proud to call themselves Republicans or Conservatives. We need more Justices or we will lose our 2nd. Amendment & everything else. Vote Trump 2020!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 18, 2020
The judgement on a five-to-four vote, with Chief Justice John Roberts siding with the court’s four liberal members, stresses that it is not an assessment of the correctness of the 2012 DACA program itself. Instead, it says the Trump administration violated official government procedures in the way it sought to quickly rescind DACA in September 2017, based on weak legal justifications.
The ruling suggests there are legal administrative methods by which Trump could cancel DACA, putting the onus back on the administration if it wants to pursue the issue.
— AFP
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