The San Francisco Chronicle reports:
The federal judge who blocked President Trump from eliminating a program that protects nearly 700,000 young immigrants from deportation issued a follow-up ruling Friday saying the lawsuits challenging the president’s order can seek to prove discrimination, based on Trump’s disparaging comments about Latinos.President Alsup takes "government by judiciary" to an entire new level ! No word yet on whether Comrade Alsup thinks other politicians can be held to the same standard.. Will Comrade Alsup's new logic lead to the dismantling of ObamaCare via this new legal doctrine?
U.S. District Judge William Alsup of San Francisco issued a nationwide injunction Tuesday preserving the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, known as DACA, while suits against its repeal continue.
The program allows youths who entered the United States without documentation before age 16, and who had attended school or served in the military and had no serious criminal record, to obtain renewable two-year reprieves from deportation and work permits.
Trump announced in September that he would abolish DACA in March unless Congress passed it as a law. In his Tuesday ruling, Alsup said Trump had offered “no reasoned explanation” for his action and had no basis for his assertion that former President Barack Obama had acted illegally in a 2012 order establishing the program....
Although judges should be cautious in considering campaign rhetoric as evidence of presidential motives, Alsup said, they need not disregard “clear-cut indications of racial prejudice on the campaign trail.”
