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This could be the beginning of the end for DACA.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday will begin hearing oral arguments on the Trump administration’s shuttering of DACA, the Obama-era program that protected young undocumented immigrants – also known as “Dreamers” – from being deported.

The justices have consolidated three separate cases involving the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program: Trump v. NAACP, McAleenan v. Vidal, and Department of Homeland Security v. Regents of the University of California.

Several lower courts had placed President Donald Trump’s phase-out of the program on hold. Now, SCOTUS is, basically, considering the rationale the administration provided for why it was ending the program, and whether the decision was “unlawfully arbitrary”—which would violate the federal Administrative Procedures Act.

Yeah, it's convoluted. Basically: The executive branch needs to adequately explain when it makes a policy change, even if the change falls within its lawful discretion. Lower courts found the Trump administration’s reasons for ending DACA were inadequate in explaining why DACA was bad policy.

Do you hope SCOTUS ends the DACA program?

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On the Radar

Know a Nominee: Steven Menashi

The Senate is expected to consider the nomination of Steven Menashi to be a judge on the Second Circuit Court of Appeals this week.

Here's a few facts about Trump's latest nominee:

• Steven Menashi, 40, is an attorney and has served as the Special Assistant to the President and Associate Counsel to the President since September 2018, after serving as Deputy General Counsel for Postsecondary Service and Acting General Counsel of the U.S. Dept. of Education in 2017-18.
• Menashi earned his bachelor’s degree with honors with honors from Dartmouth College, and was the senior articles editor of the Stanford Law Review while graduating from Stanford Law School. After law school, he clerked for Judge Douglas Ginsburg on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit Court, and for Justice Samuel Alito of the U.S. Supreme Court.

How do you feel about Trump's judge appointments?

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Under the Radar

Foie Gras Ban?

Foie gras sales will be banned in the city that never sleeps beginning in 2022, after the New York City Council passed legislation banning the sale of the French delicacy, which is made by force-feeding ducks.

Violation of the bill - to sell the fattened goose or duck liver - is punishable by a $2,000 fine.

Councilwoman Carlina Rivera, the bill’s primary sponsor, labelled foie gras a “force-fed product” and its lambasted its method of production as an “inhumane practice."

“New York is the mecca of dining in the world. How is it possible that New York doesn’t have foie gras?” said Marco Moreira, executive chef and owner of Tocqueville, an acclaimed French restaurant near Union Square. “What’s next? No more veal? No more mushrooms?”

Do you support a ban on foie gras?

What You're Saying

Here's how you're answering Should States & the Feds Have Greater Oversight of Schools With Students Using GI Bill Benefits?