Thread: Federal Court won't lift hold on Obama immigration action

If the States win in the Appeals Court the Justice Department will take it to the Supreme Court.

If the States loose the States will take it to the Supreme Court.

Sooner or later the Supreme Court will decide this.

Georgia Attorney General Sam Olens on Monday predicted the legal case against President Barack Obama’s executive actions on immigration could drag on for another two years and reach all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court...

http://www.alipac.us/f12/legal-case-...-court-318829/

Originally Posted by JohnDoe2

If the States win in the Appeals Court the Justice Department will take it to the Supreme Court.

If the States loose the States will take it to the Supreme Court.

Sooner or later the Supreme Court will decide this.

Not necessarily because the DOJ, for good reason, may not opt to take it all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court if the deem it as futile. A loss at that level would definitely damage Obama and the Democrats on their immigration position (much more damage than they've already taken).

12:44 pm ET
May 28, 2015 WHITE HOUSE

High Court Could Have Final Say on Immigration Order

• By JACOB GERSHMAN

Reuters

In the wake of the latest court ruling against President Barack Obama‘s immigration order, the president’s top domestic policy adviser said Thursday that she suspects the Supreme Court would have the final say on the fate of the administration’s plan to defer deportations for millions of undocumented immigrants.

In an interview with MSNBC, White House domestic policy director Cecilia Muñoz was asked about the legal uncertainty surrounding Mr. Obama’s immigration action. Said Ms. Muñoz:

We think that the case that we’re arguing in July may ultimately get to the Supreme Court. The challenge is that if we were to appeal this stay, the decision that happened this week, one way or the other, whether the government won or lost, we would still have this other argument to make and people would not have the certainty they need in order to benefit from this program.

So this is about making sure that we are fighting vigorously, winning the case on the merits, so that when the time comes that we’re implementing this program, people can be sure that it’s not going to get further entangled in litigation.

The Obama administration, as WSJ’s Nathan Koppel reports, has already decided it won’t contest Tuesday’s ruling by a Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel declining to stay an earlier injunction that left the president’s executive action in limbo with just over a year and a half before he leaves office.

A spokesman for the Justice Department said Wednesday that the agency will focus on a separate appeal of the February injunction that is scheduled to be heard by the Fifth Circuit in July.

The president’s plan, announced last year, would allow more than four million people in the country illegally to apply for deferred deportation and work authorizations, among other benefits.

http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2015/05/28/...obama-adviser/

Originally Posted by JohnDoe2

12:44 pm ET
May 28, 2015 WHITE HOUSE

High Court Could Have Final Say on Immigration Order

• By JACOB GERSHMAN

Reuters

In the wake of the latest court ruling against President Barack Obama‘s immigration order, the president’s top domestic policy adviser said Thursday that she suspects the Supreme Court would have the final say on the fate of the administration’s plan to defer deportations for millions of undocumented immigrants.

In an interview with MSNBC, White House domestic policy director Cecilia Muñoz was asked about the legal uncertainty surrounding Mr. Obama’s immigration action. Said Ms. Muñoz:

We think that the case that we’re arguing in July may ultimately get to the Supreme Court. The challenge is that if we were to appeal this stay, the decision that happened this week, one way or the other, whether the government won or lost, we would still have this other argument to make and people would not have the certainty they need in order to benefit from this program.

So this is about making sure that we are fighting vigorously, winning the case on the merits, so that when the time comes that we’re implementing this program, people can be sure that it’s not going to get further entangled in litigation.

The Obama administration, as WSJ’s Nathan Koppel reports, has already decided it won’t contest Tuesday’s ruling by a Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel declining to stay an earlier injunction that left the president’s executive action in limbo with just over a year and a half before he leaves office.

A spokesman for the Justice Department said Wednesday that the agency will focus on a separate appeal of the February injunction that is scheduled to be heard by the Fifth Circuit in July.

The president’s plan, announced last year, would allow more than four million people in the country illegally to apply for deferred deportation and work authorizations, among other benefits.

http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2015/05/28/...obama-adviser/

I see the words "could" and "suspect" but the fact remains there is no certainty.

12/29/15

http://www.alipac.us/f12/texas-asks-...n-case-326814/