Rapid Reaction: Supreme Court Protects DREAMers

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4.8 • 616 Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2020

⏱️ 17 minutes

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For the second time in a week, the Supreme Court came down on the side of justice! On Thursday morning, it blocked the Trump administration's efforts to rescind DACA in a 5-4 decision. In this episode of Boom! Lawyered, Jessica Mason Pieklo and Imani Gandy explain the decision, how Justice Sotomayor added an extra dollop of truth, and whether Trump has any hope of finding a workaround. If you'd like to support Boom! Lawyered, join us at https://rewire.news/boomgive or text "BOOMGIVE" to 44-321.

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0:00.0	Hello, fellow law nerds.
0:09.3	Welcome to a special reaction episode of Boom Lawyered, a rewired.
0:13.3	Dot News podcast hosted by the legal journalism team that really just doesn't know what the fuck is even going on anymore.
0:19.9	Like, what is happening?
0:22.3	I'm Imani Gandhi. And I'm Jess Peklo. Rewire. News is dedicated to bringing you the best
0:28.1	reproductive rights and social justice news, commentary, and analysis on the web. And the team legal
0:33.2	podcast is part of that mission. So a big thanks to our subscribers and a welcome to our new listeners.
0:38.9	So on Thursday, the Supreme Court decided to protect about 700,000 dreamers from deportation
0:46.5	when it ruled that the Trump administration's attempt to end the DACA program were, say it with me,
0:53.5	arbitrary and capricious.
0:57.7	So my first question, okay, let me give Jess a moment to get the arbitrary and capricious.
1:02.9	Breathe in, breathe out.
1:05.3	Breathe in.
1:06.7	Okay, Jess, what is happening?
1:08.8	I don't know.
1:11.1	What is going on?
1:14.0	Like, this big decision, another one this week that we were frankly expecting to go the other
1:20.0	way?
1:20.6	Like, yeah, let's get into it.
1:22.9	Let's just, let's give a little background on what this DACA fight has been about.
1:28.0	So we're talking three years more or less in the making.
1:31.1	California and a coalition of states sued the Trump administration in September 2017,
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