Mealey's (December 4, 2017, 1:00 PM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — After the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals denied its petition for mandamus of a trial court’s order requiring an expanded administrative record in a lawsuit seeking to block termination of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, the U.S. government on Dec. 1 filed a similar petition with the U.S. Supreme Court, seeking to halt the discovery of what it asserts are privileged deliberative documents (In re United States, et al., No. 17-801, U.S. Sup.)....