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SCOTUS Opinion

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The U.S. Supreme Court released one opinion today: Nken v. Holder, an immigration case. The case deals with stays of deportation pending review, an issue somewhat analogous to stays of execution in capital cases. The Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 has a limitation on injunctions of deportation, but that is not the same thing as a stay of a deportation order, according to CJ Roberts' opinion. Justices Alito and Thomas dissent. Once again, if Congress wants to clip a traditional judicial power, it needs to be very precise in its wording.

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