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Appeals Court Deals Blow to Obama Immigration Proposal
A federal appeals court on Tuesday denied (WaPo)
President Barack Obama's administration's request to move forward with
an executive order to defer deportations for millions of undocumented
immigrants, a centerpiece of President Obama's second-term agenda. The
ruling, stemming from a lawsuit brought by Texas and twenty-five other
states, found that states have the legal standing to challenge the
federal policy and that a previous injunction against the executive
order must remain in effect. The decision puts President Obama's
immigration initiative, which was to start taking effect this month, on hold (NYT) until the legal challenges against it are settled. The administration may appeal directly to the Supreme Court.
ANALYSIS
"If
the administration can't get the Supreme Court to act promptly to lift
the injunction or chooses not to try, the White House could find Obama's
long-promised immigration actions on hold until the Supreme Court rules
definitively on the legal questions at stake — a ruling that likely
wouldn't come until next June," explain Josh Gerstein and Adam Lerner in Politico.
"By acting on his own Mr. Obama poisoned the politics
of immigration reform for the rest of his tenure. Republicans who favor
reform have no chance to bring along angry back-benchers who have zero
trust in the President to follow any immigration reform that Congress
passes," argues the Wall Street Journal.
"The lawsuit against DAPA, then, is really more of a political squabble
than a true legal conflict. A Democratic president, pursuant to a
Congressional mandate, dictated a policy that deprioritized the
deportation of the parents of citizens and permanent residents. A group
of Republican governors opposed it," writes Mark Joseph Stern in Slate.
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