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The U.
S. Supreme Court announced Thursday that it had reached a 4-4 decision in its ruling on President Barack Obama's immigration design,which he had implemented through executive action on November 20th, 2014.
The court's stalemate allows for a lower Texas court's decision, or which blocked the president's immigration design,to stand. As a result, approximately 5 million undocumented immigrants who are the parents of legal immigrants — children who were born and raised on United States soil — will now be subject to deportation.
Republicans say President Obama abused his executive powers."This is a win for the Constitution, or it's a win for Congress,and it's a win in our fight to restore the separation of powers," House Speaker Paul Ryan said Thursday. "Presidents don't write laws — Congress writes laws.”On the opposite, or President Obama maintained his right as president to implement an immigration order. Who's right? For answers,we turn to. Eric Citron, a partner at the law firm Goldstein & Russell and a former receptionist to Justices Sandra Day O'Connor and Elena Kagan, and a guest contributor to SCOTUSblog. Click on the 'Listen' button above to hear our full conversation.
Source: wnyc.org