This episode epitomized the brutal calculus of the current progressives and their party. The ends justify the means; if the Constitution prevents a measure the Left thinks is “right,” then either that document needs to be changed, violated, or ignored. Then the party hopes the illegal measure will last as long as possible, or that an ideologically biased court will concoct a rationalization to uphold it.”Immigration advocates said the ruling signaled that the only chance for DACA to survive was for Congress to pass a law to protect young immigrants, something it has been unable to do for more than two decades,” sniffed the New York Times.

Such a tragedy: now they’ll have to persuade the public and Congress to pass a law, like they were supposed to do in the first place. Don’t have the votes? Is the public losing patience with millions of illegal aliens crossing a porous border? Better start trying to make laws the old fashioned way, then. You know: democratically, not by edict. I can think of no better example of how the Democratic Party has engaged in gaslighting the public, screaming about Republicans being threats to democracy by showing repeatedly that the process only has its favor when and if it follows the progressive agenda.

It’s been taking all this time to purge the “Dreamer” madness from the states. The Justice Department announced that it has sued Hawaii, Arkansas, Utah, and Washington, D.C., to complete a 25-case campaign against tuition and financial-aid benefits for “Dreamers” that discriminate against U.S. citizens. Six earlier cases have already produced orders blocking similar policies in Texas, Kentucky, Oklahoma, Nebraska, Illinois, and Kansas.

The policies violate federal law by granting education benefits to illegal immigrants while U.S. citizens from other states to pay higher tuition and do not have access to the same scholarships. “No more placing illegal aliens over American citizens on this Department of Justice’s watch,” Associate Attorney General Stanley E. Woodward Jr. said. He added that DOJ had now sued every state with a law or regulation granting illegal immigrants in-state tuition and said the department would continue to prevent illegal immigrants from receiving benefits denied to American citizens.

How mean of them.

Federal statute 8 U.S.C. § 1623(a), prohibits states from providing residency-based postsecondary education benefits to illegal immigrants unless U.S. citizens can receive the same benefits regardless of their state of residence….as it should.