Well, this is different.
One of the big cases, and big disappointments, of the last Supreme Court term was United States v. Texas, 15-674. Texas challenged the Obama Administration's deferred action program for illegal immigrants. Texas won in the Fifth Circuit, and the Supreme Court, minus the late Justice Scalia, divided 4-4. That means the Fifth Circuit decision stands, but no Supreme Court precedent is established. It is as if the high court had never taken the case up at all.
Now the Acting Solicitor General has filed a petition for rehearing asking for "rehearing of this case before a full nine-Member Court." But who knows when the Supreme Court will have nine Justices again? Is this a "springing" rehearing petition, filed now but activated only when a ninth Justice is confirmed? Sounds like some dimly remembered nightmare from property law class.
One of the big cases, and big disappointments, of the last Supreme Court term was United States v. Texas, 15-674. Texas challenged the Obama Administration's deferred action program for illegal immigrants. Texas won in the Fifth Circuit, and the Supreme Court, minus the late Justice Scalia, divided 4-4. That means the Fifth Circuit decision stands, but no Supreme Court precedent is established. It is as if the high court had never taken the case up at all.
Now the Acting Solicitor General has filed a petition for rehearing asking for "rehearing of this case before a full nine-Member Court." But who knows when the Supreme Court will have nine Justices again? Is this a "springing" rehearing petition, filed now but activated only when a ninth Justice is confirmed? Sounds like some dimly remembered nightmare from property law class.
Texas challenged the Obama Administration's deferred action program for
illegal immigrants.
-- The Obama Administration is refusing to let law enforcement enforce the law.
God bless Texas.
ICE: Deportations at 10-year low, criminal illegal expulsions cut 60%
by Paul Bedard (@SecretsBedard) WashExam
CLEVELAND — Despite a series of crimes committed by illegal immigrants and public polls showing anger at 3 years of juvenile Latin Americans crossing the border, deportations have dropped to a 10-year low and under President
Obama, the eviction of those convicted of criminals has plummeted 60%. ...
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement statistics reported to Congress
show that 230,000 illegal immigrants will be deported this year. That is
slightly more than half of the 400,000 that were deported in 2012, ...
This is approximately 1/4 the number of interior deportations completed by ICE
in 2009 {says CIS, Policy Director Jessica M. Vaughan}. ...deportation of
illegals convicted of crimes as bad as murder and rape are ... [at] a
decline of more than 60% from 2011.