US To Appeal Ruling That Blocked Obama’s Executive Action On Immigration

FILE - In a Friday, Jan. 30, 2015 file photo, President Barack Obama speaks in the East Room of the White House in Washington. President Barack Obama’s budget will propose an ambitious six-year, $478 billion publi... FILE - In a Friday, Jan. 30, 2015 file photo, President Barack Obama speaks in the East Room of the White House in Washington. President Barack Obama’s budget will propose an ambitious six-year, $478 billion public works program of highway, bridge and transit upgrades, half of it financed with a one-time mandatory tax on profits that U.S. companies have amassed overseas, White House officials said. Obama will unveil a $4 trillion budget on Monday, Feb. 2, 2015. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File) MORE LESS
Start your day with TPM.
Sign up for the Morning Memo newsletter

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department will appeal a federal judge’s ruling that temporarily blocked President Barack Obama’s executive action on immigration, the White House said Tuesday.

On Monday, U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen in Texas issued a temporary injunction, giving a coalition of 26 states time to pursue a lawsuit that aims to permanently stop the orders. The ruling puts on hold Obama’s orders that could spare more than 4 million people who are in the U.S. illegally from deportation.

In a statement, the White House said Monday’s ruling “wrongly prevents” the president’s “lawful, commonsense policies” from taking effect.

The Justice Department, legal scholars, immigration experts and the federal district court in Washington have determined that Obama’s actions are well within his legal authority, the White House said.

The first of Obama’s orders — to expand a program that protects young immigrants from deportation if they were brought to the U.S. illegally as children — was set to start taking effect Wednesday. The other major part of Obama’s order, which extends deportation protections to parents of U.S. citizens and permanent residents who have been in the country for some years, was not expected to begin until May 19.

Copyright 2015 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Latest News

Notable Replies

  1. No one leaves a prosperous, happy life in their country to become illegal in someone else’s. Most refugee claimants are proven truthful and would much rather live in their own country. This is a proven fact. If republicans want a country free of foreigners, they should make sure every country is free of conflict.

  2. The 5th Circuit will overturn this. What these guys don’t seem to understand, is that even though you are a federal judge, you still have to give the appearance of upholding precedents and present at least a shallow grounding in law when you make a ruling, you can’t just say “I personally don’t like Mexicans”.

    That said, will this give enough cover for Boehner to offer up a clean DHS funding bill now?

  3. even though you are a federal judge, you still have to give the appearance of upholding precedents and present at least a shallow grounding in law when you make a ruling

    That doesn’t seem to be true in Alabama or, for some cases, the Supreme Court.

  4. In Alabama, their judge threw a public temper tanturm, and within 4 days a Federal Judge had them issuing marriage certificates to gays. Because the question of Federal Supremacy has already been answered and precedent set.

    And while I strongly disagree with many of this Court’s rulings, A) SCOTUS is where precedents are supposed to be set and/or confirmed B) Scalia et. al., do at least try and couch their decisions on some tenuous touch to actual law. Often times flying completely in the face of the logic they have used in every other case, but still…at least they give the appearance.

  5. You nailed it. The GOP is looking for a way out of their latest self inflicted stupidity wound with DHS. I am not certain this will be enough, but we shall see. I always look forward to reading your posts, DaveyJones64.

Continue the discussion at forums.talkingpointsmemo.com

Participants

Avatar for system1 Avatar for rudesan Avatar for rollinnolan Avatar for daveyjones64 Avatar for canadian

Continue Discussion
Masthead Masthead
Founder & Editor-in-Chief:
Executive Editor:
Managing Editor:
Deputy Editor:
Editor at Large:
General Counsel:
Publisher:
Head of Product:
Director of Technology:
Associate Publisher:
Front End Developer:
Senior Designer: