The case will likely be argued in April and decided by late June, about a month before both parties’ presidential nominating conventions.
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Senator Mazie Hirono praised the Supreme Court’s decision on Tuesday to hear US v. Texas.
“The court should affirm what President Obama said himself on more than 20 occasions: that he can not unilaterally rewrite congressional laws and circumvent the people’s representatives”, Paxton said.
The Supreme Court agreed on Tuesday to consider a legal challenge to President Barack Obama’s executive action, allowing for certain undocumented immigrants to remain in the United States.
A hot-button issue: Immigration has been a heated issue throughout the 2016 presidential campaign, with Republican frontrunner Donald Trump questioning the “birthright” citizenship of children born on USA soil to immigrant parents, advocating construction of a wall on the Mexican border and vowing to deport illegal immigrants en masse.
But more than two dozen states – including Florida – have filed a lawsuit, saying the president doesn’t have the authority to enact the executive order on immigration.
Hillary Clinton expressed her support for DAPA via Twitter. “The issue is that they are questioning the president’s authority to provide an executive order, and we know that there’ve been many, many presidents that have used executive orders”.
A coalition of 26 states that are generally conservative, headed by Texas, has been successful in court challenges that are lower.
The round-up of the Central American families has drawn protests from Latino advocacy groups, but the government says the migrants do not meet the legal immigration standards to stay in the U.S.
“This does signal hope for a positive outcome for the over 4 million people nationwide that would be impacted directly by the president’s pending executive action on immigration”.
The case is not the first time Obama has asked the Supreme Court to rescue a major initiative.
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The proposed Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents would follow an earlier program called the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program; that program shielded from deportation people brought to the country illegally as children and affected an estimated 600,000 people. They were put on hold November 9 by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans, which upheld a Texas-based federal judge’s injunction against Obama’s actions. Marco Rubio, who has been outspoken about his criticism of the president, said he would end Obama’s orders if he is elected president. “The actions I’m taking are not only lawful, they’re the kinds of actions taken by every single Republican president and every single Democratic president for the past half century”.
