SCOTUS will be ruling on whether Obama overreached on immigration
This promises to be very interesting:
The Supreme Court announced Tuesday that it will take up a case challenging the legality of President Barack Obama’s executive actions aimed at granting quasi-legal status and work permits to up to five million people who entered the U.S. illegally as children or who have children who are American citizens…
The justices are expected to hear arguments on the issue in April and to hand down a ruling by the end of June. Illegal immigration has already been a hot topic in the presidential contest, but the high-profile attention brought on by the Supreme Court fight could amp up the debate even further as the campaign plays out this spring and summer.
In their order Tuesday, the justices added one question to the case: whether Obama’s actions violated the Constitutional provision requiring him to “take care that the Laws be faithfully executed” ”” in essence, whether existing law bars the president from making the kinds of enforcement changes he sought to make.
That issue will be added to three laid out by the Justice Department in the petition asking the justices to take up the case: whether states have legal standing to challenge the deferred actions grants by providing benefits to such immigrants, whether the actions Obama ordered in 2014 were arbitrary and capricious under federal law, and whether the administration was obliged to go through a formal notice-and-comment period before proceeding with its plan.
This is an important case, not just because it’s a test of Obama’s immigration policies and the methods by which he has arrived at them, but because it is a test of the chief executive’s ability to override Congress and the will of the people. That has repercussions way beyond Obama, and is of the utmost importance to those who are interested in liberty and the future of the republic.
I wish the decision would be 9-0 for liberty, but I fear it will be only 5-4, either way.
The tip is the issue added to he case by SCOTUS. Obama loses 5-4.
I call on Sotomayor to recuse herself.
Yes Cornhead, that is a significant question from SCOTUS.
“This is an important case, not just because it’s a test of Obama’s immigration policies and the methods by which he has arrived at them, but because it is a test of the chief executive’s ability to override Congress and the will of the people. That has repercussions way beyond Obama, and is of the utmost importance to those who are interested in liberty and the future of the republic.” neo
Indeed, it’s importance cannot be over emphasized. The future of the republic may well rest upon it, for while a ruling against Obama will not in and of itself save the republic… a ruling that the President may make law, in effect what a supportive ruling would find, would be the equivalent of when Caesar in Rome declared himself ‘el presidente’ for life.
He’s more Sulla than Caesar…
Either way, he’s a tyrant.
blert,
I am not stating that if the SCOTUS rules in favor of Obama that it will make Obama… a Caesar. I am saying it makes an American ‘Caesar’, an inescapable future reality.
Obama will only have 6 months in office by the time the decision is handed down. SCOTUS could’ve dodged the case altogether if they’d wanted, so they must want to rule on it.
Either pro- or con-, they’re going out of their way to deliver a message.
The one saving grace may be the Leftist Court may fear a Trump Presidency and his overreach WHICH HE WILL, if he gets the nomination. He has as much respect for the Constitution and the rule of Law as Obama does. And he can get the lemmings to follow him.
God, I pray that Cruz can rise above the crap and get the nod.
I wish I had faith that this would have any bearing on Obama’s behavior.
As we saw in lower courts, he was busy approving green cards for a large group of immigrants at the exact same time his lawyer was telling the judge that he would do no such thing. Obama has months to continue with his unprecedented acceptance of illegal immigrants, and even if SCOTUS rules against him, there’s no track record that indicates he will obey their ruling.
Will it be SCOTUS or Judge Judy ruling?
When you see stuff like this it’s hard to chock down that these people are allowed to vote!
These are not trailer trash rednecks.
I predict it goes 5-4 for Obama. Either Roberts or Stevens (I forget whose turn it is to betray the party that nominated them) will detect a wisp of a pheromone leaking from an aroma previously undiscovered deep inside a penumbra emanating from an essence of the commerce clause that clearly intimates that anyone, anywhere, who has ever desired to better themselves must be an American citizen by birth because that is what this great nation is all about…or something. Except when Canada is involved in any way.
geokstr:
I think Roberts will rule against Obama on this one.
Stevens, on the other hand, is more of a coin toss. My guess (my fear) is that he’ll support Obama, because he wants to be nice to illegal immigrants.
The reason I say Roberts won’t go for the liberal line here is that I’ve detected a pattern in Roberts’ defections, and the summary version (someday I may write a post on this) is that he doesn’t like to do anything too drastic to overrule something Congress has done. This does not fall into that category; this is executive overreach, and I think he’d find it so.
I guess it will all be revealed in the fullness of time.