Antonin Scalia in Trump Cabinet members actions and issues

On Immigration: DACA phase-out legally correct under administrative law

Federal courts said the administration had acted arbitrarily when phasing out the program. The 5-4 ruling emphasized that the administration failed to provide an adequate reason to justify ending the DACA program.

Clarence Thomas wrote in a dissent, that Scalia joined, that the ruling is "an effort to avoid a politically controversial but legally correct decision. The majority makes the mystifying determination that this rescission of DACA was unlawful. The majority acts as though it is engaging in the routine application of standard principles of administrative law. This is anything but a standard administrative law case."