Argument preview: A big, or not so big, ruling due on immigration

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Scotus: Argument preview: A big, or not so big, ruling due on immigration

By Lyle Denniston on Apr 11, 2016 at 9:07 am

Analysis

 

When the Supreme Court in mid-January agreed to review the legality of President Obama’s ambitious new policy for delaying the deportation of nearly five million undocumented immigrants, the Justices enlarged the case into a major constitutional test. But, with eight Justices now on the bench, the Court could find itself having to decide it on a narrower, yet still historically important, constitutional basis.

 

Next Monday, April 18, the Court will hold ninety minutes of oral argument on United States v. Texas, with the review coming coincidentally in the midst of a presidential election campaign in which immigration policy is one of the dominant issues being argued before the voters. When the Court decides, by summer, its ruling could play a direct part in presidential politics, even if the Court does not intend to have any influence on voters. The case is thus deeply immersed in politics, yet the Justices will try to decide it on purely legal grounds.

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Texas Defends U.S. Sovereignty Versus Obama

By Josh Hammer | April 18, 2016

U.S. Supreme Court oral argument took place today in the high-stakes U.S. v. Texas case. The case is about the scope of the President’s “prosecutorial

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