he can > according to chief justice roberts, the constitution makes it easy for presidents to violate the law, but reversing such violations difficult -- especially for their successors. suppose president donald trump decided to create a nationwide right to carry guns openly. he could declare that he would not enforce federal firearms laws, and that a new trump permit would free any holder of state and local gun-control restrictions. top stories can birthright citizenship be repealed by executive order? jim geraghty joe bidens final corrupt acts the editors trump begins purge of 1,000 biden appointees by firing general milley david zimmermann even if trump knew that his scheme lacked legal authority, he could get away with it for the length of his presidency. and, moreover, even if courts declared the permit illegal, his successor would have to keep enforcing the program for another year or two. that incredible outcome is essentially what happened with the supreme court decision last week in department of homeland security v. regents of the university of california (the latter being my employer, i might add). regents blocked president trumps repeal of the 2012 deferred action for childhood arrivals (daca) program, which halted the deportation of aliens brought to the u.s. illegally as children, and a parallel 2014 program that suspended the removal of their parents (dapa). until the trump administration goes through the laborious result of enacting a new regulation to undo daca and dapa, approximately 6 million aliens can remain in the u.s. in defiance of federal immigration statutes.
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