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The administration’s effort to kill DACA was on the verge of an enormous loss, and by June 17 the White House’s legal posture looked shaky enough to invite real alarm. The coming Supreme Court decision would soon show that Trump’s immigration team had not sold the justices on its reasoning, and the political damage was already in the air.
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The administration’s effort to kill DACA was on the verge of an enormous loss, and by June 17 the White House’s legal posture looked shaky enough to invite real alarm. The coming Supreme Court decision would soon show that Trump’s immigration team had not sold the justices on its reasoning, and the political damage was already in the air.
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