SCOTUS To Hear Case Challenging Immigration Executive Order

The justices agreed to review whether Obama, acting without congressional approval, has the power to shield from deportation up to 5 million immigrants living in the us illegally and give them eligibility to work without fear.

“We’re extremely enthusiastic, as well as all of the families with whom we work”.

His executive actions have antagonized Republicans who accuse him of unlawfully taking actions by executive fiat that only Congress can perform. “I am very optimistic that what the president has done is lawful, constitutional, and it follows many many precedents that other presidents and chief executives of the United States have already taken”.

Texas had asked the Supreme Court not to hear the case.

The Supreme Court will rule on the State of Texas’ challenge to President Obama’s immigration program, Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents.

In December 2015, Senator Hirono joined 33 Senators and 184 Representatives in authoring an amicus brief urging the Supreme Court to uphold President Obama’s executive action.

On Tuesday, ABC’s World News Tonight didn’t find it pertinent to inform their millions of viewers that the Supreme Court decided hours earlier that it will hear a case concerning the legality of President Obama’s executive amnesty after having worked its way up through the federal court system. Presidential candidate Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) posted on Twitter, saying that he is confident the Supreme Court will agree that the president’s executive orders are unconstitutional. “The (Fifth Circuit) Court’s incorrect and inhumane ruling was an attack not just on the basic principles of administrative law, but on millions of immigrant families”.

The president’s November 2014 order allowed undocumented immigrants who are the parents of USA citizens or lawful permanent residents to avoid deportation and get work permits.

The administration will argue three main points: the states don’t have the legal standing to challenge the policy in federal court, the government followed appropriate procedure in implementing the executive actions and federal law grants the administration broad discretion on how to enforce immigration laws, according to CBS News.

The states said that the program “would be one of the largest changes in immigration policy in our nation’s history” and that it raises major issues involving the separation of powers and federalism.

A win for the Obama administration would spur those on the right to push for the need to have a Republican in the White House to appoint more conservative justices.

“This will get to the Supreme Court calendar, where we hope that it will be resolved once and for all”, she said. Under pressure from critics, the government in December stepped up deportations of illegal immigrants with criminal records.