recision

They also want the short-term extension to include provisions repealing $80 billion in new IRS funding and the recision of unspent COVID-19 relief.

The Alliance Defending Freedom, a nonprofit legal organization that has also fielded cases involving religious-based student groups on college and university campuses, also filed a comment opposing the recision.

A federal judge put those plans in limbo on Monday by issuing a ruling halting the recision.

Theodore B. Olsen, a solicitor general under President George W. Bush who will be one of two lawyers arguing against DACA’s recision, suggested that the Trump administration’s justification falls short of what Roberts demanded in the census case.

The recision was blocked by courts – allowing people in the program to renew their applications but not allowing new applications, though the Migration Policy Institute estimates 1.3 million people qualify under the strict criteria.