In a 31-page ruling, Judge Garaufis (EDNY) has granted summary judgment against the Trump administration's post- #SCOTUS effort to suspend #DACA — holding that @DHS_Wolf was *not* lawfully appointed, and so lacked the authority to issue his July 28 memo:

https://www.justsecurity.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Garaufis.DACA_.decision.pdf
In a 31-page ruling, Judge Garaufis (EDNY) has granted summary judgment against the Trump administration's post- #SCOTUS effort to suspend #DACA — holding that @DHS_Wolf was *not* lawfully appointed, and so lacked the authority to issue his July 28 memo: https://www.justsecurity.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Garaufis.DACA_.decision.pdf
In a 31-page ruling, Judge Garaufis (EDNY) has granted summary judgment against the Trump administration's post- #SCOTUS effort to suspend #DACA — holding that @DHS_Wolf was *not* lawfully appointed, and so lacked the authority to issue his July 28 memo: https://www.justsecurity.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Garaufis.DACA_.decision.pdf
In a 31-page ruling, Judge Garaufis (EDNY) has granted summary judgment against the Trump administration's post- #SCOTUS effort to suspend #DACA — holding that @DHS_Wolf was *not* lawfully appointed, and so lacked the authority to issue his July 28 memo: https://www.justsecurity.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Garaufis.DACA_.decision.pdf
In a 31-page ruling, Judge Garaufis (EDNY) has granted summary judgment against the Trump administration's post- #SCOTUS effort to suspend #DACA — holding that @DHS_Wolf was *not* lawfully appointed, and so lacked the authority to issue his July 28 memo: https://www.justsecurity.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Garaufis.DACA_.decision.pdf
As for DOJ's Friday letter to the court about how it communicated an "inadvertent factual inaccuracy" about the timing of the belated effort to ratify the #DACA suspension ( https://twitter.com/steve_vladeck/status/1327628180778311680?s=20), let's just say that Judge Garaufis was ... not amused.

(H/T: @marty_lederman.)
Keep in mind that *this* is the only reason why, all of a sudden, the Trump administration is in a hurry to have the Senate confirm a DHS Secretary (after leaving the position open for a record 584 days — and counting): https://twitter.com/priscialva/status/1327237871644839937?s=20
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