

The White House adviser had a real case of the Mondays.

Chip Somodevilla

Monday was a rough day for Stephen Miller. He's one of the most vocally anti-immigrant members of the Trump administration, largely seen as one of the driving forces in the White House's antagonism toward even legal immigration. While Trump himself seems mostly confused about his own position on DACA, Miller is invested in the president reversing the policy, and in his subsequent torpedoing of multiple bipartisan attempts to get some kind of protection for DREAMers back on the table.

So imagine how big a downer it must have been for this otherwise lovely and totally normal dude when he learned that the Supreme Court had rejected the Trump administration's request that it hear a challenge to a lower court ruling that, for now, preserves DACA. It was a rather desperate ploy by the White House to expedite the legal fight and bypass having to go before the famously liberal Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, but the Supreme Court didn't play ball.

This is the latest in a long string of court losses for Miller's anti-immigration pet projects, and his biggest defeat since the Ninth Circuit swatted down the third and latest version of the White House's Muslim ban. The Supreme Court's ruling today means that the Trump administration has to keep accepting renewal applications from current DACA recipients while the lower courts deliberate.

Later on Monday, Miller joined the president for a White House meeting with state governors to talk about school shootings. While Trump was busy imagining himself in Hot Fuzz, Miller was struggling to muster enough energy to even make it through the talk.

Kudos to the photographer who got a picture of an obviously-asleep White House adviser and then decided, Let's get a few more, but zoomed in. Those are the instincts that get you a Pulitzer.