This is Brian Lair's Daily Politics Podcasts from WNYC Studios.

It's Thursday, June 18th.

I'm Sean Carlson, filling in for Brian Lair,

who's off for a few days to deal with some dental work.

Do not worry, he will be back.

We have a decision on DACA, or the deferred action for childhood arrivals program started by President

Obama and rescinded by President Trump.

Earlier this morning, the Supreme Court, which has an unmistakable partisan divide, ruled against

Trump's challenges of ending the program, which allows non-citizens brought to the U.S.

as children to apply for protection from deportation. The ruling impacts about 650,000 people

living in the U.S. It allows them to stay protected for now. Chief Justice Roberts wrote the

opinion and provided the swing vote joining the court's liberal wing to find that the Trump

administration violated the laws governing federal agencies.

So joining us now to discuss the historic opinion is Beth Fertig.

She's senior reporter here in our newsroom covering immigration and the courts for WNYC Jamie Floyd.

She's a host of WNIC's All Things Considered.

She's also the station's legal editor.

Hey, Jamie and Beth,

thanks so much for being here. You're welcome. Okay, Jamie, let's get to business here.

Now that the Trump administration is called And DACA was found to be unlawful, what can we expect will happen next? Well, it's actually a big ruling today, not so much for constitutional reasons, but for its effect.

And as you said, it's penned by John Roberts. He's the chief, so that shows the procedural significance of the case.

But it's also a split decision, as you mentioned, joined by Ginsburg, Breyer, and Kagan in full.

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