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    Supreme Court case of Trump vs. 'Dreamers' may come down to Chief Justice Roberts

    by David G. Savage, Los Angeles Times Nov 11, 2019 5 minutes

    WASHINGTON - A somewhat reluctant Supreme Court will hear arguments Tuesday in this year's most far-reaching immigration case and decide whether President Donald Trump was justified in seeking to revoke a popular Obama-era policy that allowed more than 700,000 immigrants brought to the country illegally as children to temporarily live and work in this country.

    Given the conservative majority on the court, the so-called Dreamers' best hope for victory almost surely depends on Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr.

    Though Roberts has repeatedly ruled that the president enjoys broad powers when it comes to immigration, he is also one of the few remaining conservative justices who has shown a willingness to side with liberals on high-profile cases, including one recently in which he agreed that the Trump administration had not adequately defended its

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