Stay at Home Order: Dealing a blow to President Trump’s anti-immigration agenda, the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 yesterday that Trump cannot abruptly end protections for illegal immigrants brought to the US as children.

  The program known as DACA, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, shields about 700,000 people from deportation and allows them to work. Trump had promised during his 2016 campaign that he would immediately end DACA, which was created by President Obama.

  Trump wants to round up the DACA immigrants and send them back to countries many don’t even remember.

  Writing for the majority, which otherwise consisted of the four liberal justices, Chief Justice John Roberts gave a technical reason for the decision, saying the administration didn’t give a good reason for ending the policy. “We do not decide whether DACA or its rescission are sound policies,” Roberts wrote. “We address only whether the agency complied with the procedural requirement that it provide a reasoned explanation for its action.” 

  It was the second time this week that Roberts sided with the liberals in a decision that disappointed Trump. On Monday the court ruled that gay ad transgender people are protected from discrimination by civil rights law.

  Justice Clarence Thomas wrote for the minority that, “Today’s decision must be recognized for what it is: an effort to avoid a politically controversial but legally correct decision.” 

  Because it’s all about him, not the law, Trump tweeted yesterday, “Do you get the impression that the Supreme Court doesn’t like me?”

Out of the Running: Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar, a former presidential candidate, has pulled herself out of contention to be Joe Biden’s running mate. After the police killing of George Floyd, Klobuchar’s former role as a prosecutor has been under scrutiny. The senator said yesterday, “I truly believe, as I told the vice president last night, that I believe that this is a moment to put a woman of color on that ticket.”

Statuary Limitations: As the monuments to heroes of a racist pass come under attack, San Francisco has taken down a statue of Christopher Columbus, but a judge in Richmond, Va., extended an injunction barring the removal of  a statue of Confederate general Robert E. Lee that towers over the city’s Monument Avenue. 

  A statue of Jefferson Davis, the president of the Confederacy, was knocked over by protesters in Richmond last week. A confederate monument was taken down in Decatur, outside Atlanta.

  In Washington today, portraits of four House speakers who served the Confederacy are expected to be removed from the Capitol today, which is Juneteenth, the holiday celebrating the end of slavery in the US.

Jobless: While the White House sent out an email yesterday touting the President’s efforts to get the economy back to its former self, the Labor Department reported that another 1.5 million people filed for unemployment insurance last week. Roughly 45.5 million Americans have lost their jobs during the pandemic.

Viral News: California has ordered all of its residents to wear masks in indoor and some outdoor public settings. Gov. Gavin Newsom made the announcement after California recorded 4,000 new cases of the coronavirus on Wednesday, a new high for the state.

  On the other end of the scale, masks will be optional at the President’s big rally in Tulsa tomorrow.

  This morning, 118,435 Americans are dead of the coronavirus. The average has been 742 deaths a day for the last 10 days, a declining number. But that puts the country on track for 129,000 deaths by the 4^th of July and the number of cases is rising; 45 percent over the last 14 days.

The Obit Page: Vera Lynn, whose song “We’ll Meet Again” encouraged millions during the years of separation during World War II, has died at age 103.

  The British Lynn was known as the “Forces’ Sweetheart,” for her songs that also included  “(There’ll Be Bluebirds Over) The White Cliffs of Dover” and “A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square.”

  But it was “We’ll Meet Again” that’ll reduce you to tears every time:

“We’ll meet again
  Don’t know where
  Don’t know when
  But I know we’ll meet again some sunny day”

The Bulletin Board: Garrett Rolfe, the former Atlanta police officer who shot Rayshard Brooks in the back and killed him, turned himself in to face murder and other charges. — China said says it has indicted two Canadians on charges of espionage, escalating Beijing’s punishment of Canada for the arrest of a top executive of the Chinese technology giant Huawei. The two are a former diplomat and an entrepreneur.

Juneteenth: Today is “Juneteenth,” that day that has been informally marked mostly among black Americans to celebrate the day that slavery ended.

  A movement is afoot to make it an official holiday. Twitter and Target made it a company holiday. NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell closed league offices and JC Penney told employees to take the day off “to honor the historic pain caused by — and lives lost to — racial inequity and celebrate racial diversity.”

  New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo made the day a holiday for state employees.

  June 19^th, 1865 was the day that Union troops arrived in Galveston, Texas, and read aloud an order resulting from the Emancipation Proclamation. The order said,  “The people of Texas are informed that, in accordance with a Proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free.”

  That was two and a half years after Abraham Lincoln signed the proclamation and six months before passage of the 13th Amendment abolishing slavery. 

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