The Trump administration for now does not have to turn over additional documents related to ending the program protecting 800,000 undocumented immigrant children, a divided Supreme Court said Friday night. The court’s four liberals added a dissent to the 5-to-4 unsigned order, saying the court was making a mistake in getting involved at this point. The government “contends that review of its decision terminating DACA must be based exclusively on the documents that the government itself unilaterally selected for submission to the district court,” wrote Justice Stephen G. Breyer. “The district court’s sweeping expansion of the administrative record — in the face of the acting secretary’s contemporaneous and reasonable explanation for her decision — directly contradicts this court’s precedents,” he wrote. The appeals court panel, in a 2-to-1 ruling, said that what the administration had provided to challengers was not enough.

Source: Washington Post December 09, 2017 01:41 UTC