I’m confident SCOTUS will agree Obama executive orders are unconstitutional.
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First, Obama tasked DHS with labeling DAPA as an “interpretive rule”, meaning that it does not need to go through the notice-and-comment process generally required under the Administrative Procedure Act (APA) for new regulations, because it’s only a “minor” rule with limited impact that merely interprets preexisting law. The court in 2012 and 2015 rejected conservative challenges to his signature healthcare law.
“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.
“[DAPA is] consistent with the actions taken by presidents of both parties, the laws passed by Congress, and the decisions of the Supreme Court”.
In order to have such standing, a state has to show that it would be injured in a concrete way if the president’s action were to be carried out.
He is filing a brief opposing the president’s action on behalf of 88 congressmen and 25 senators, including the two Texas senators, Ted Cruz and John Cornyn.
CT will be front and center before the U.S. Supreme Court this year via the presence of its senior senator in an election-year-charged immigration case.
In blocking the administration’s immigration program, the lower federal courts did not render decisions on the legal issues surrounding the president’s action.
There are those who back the president on this one due to their feelings about immigration, believing that Obama and the Democrats are right, and that Republicans are wrong.
The Supreme Court will have to decide if the current law gives the president the power to temporarily shield millions of the immigrants from being deported as per the request of Texas state lawyers.
The Immigration Project in Bloomington said more than 50,000 immigrants in downstate IL are here illegally. States were not required to provide any benefits.
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.
The administration will now argue that the Supreme Court should reverse lower court decision.
If the justices side with the administration in the summer, that would leave Obama’s administration with a few short months to implement his plans.
Still, Democratic officials and immigrants’ advocates praised the court’s action. Jesus is hoping the court upholds the President’s plan so he can work and drive legally.
Republican presidential candidates have talked tough against illegal immigrants.
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The Supreme Court looking into the case means folks who qualify for the programs known as DAPA ( Deferred Action for Parental Accountability) and DACA (Deferred Action for Children Arrivals) will be able to come out of the shadows if the block is removed.
