Experts were optimistic on a new Trump White House memo directing three-letter agencies to abide by Supreme Court rulings – however, how the memo will be enforced remains in question.

At the same time, however, the American Civil Liberties Union and its allies also took a victory lap. Lee Gelernt, the lead counsel for the immigrant plaintiffs in the case and the deputy director of the A.C.L.U.’s Immigrants’ Rights Project said the case represented an important victory.