Tuesday, February 17, 2015

Federal judge stalls Obama's executive action on immigration



U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen's decision comes after a hearing in Brownsville in January and puts on hold Obama's orders that could spare as many as five million people who are in the U.S. illegally from deportation. 
Hanen wrote in a memorandum accompanying his order that the lawsuit should go forward and that without a preliminary injunction the states will "suffer irreparable harm in this case." 
"The genie would be impossible to put back into the bottle," he wrote, adding that he agreed with the plaintiffs' argument that legalizing the presence of millions of people is a "virtually irreversible" action.

3 comments:

Always On Watch said...

Obama has to be totally pissed off.

Now, what workaround will he use so as to put his executive order in force?

Anonymous said...

With any luck, this case will tie this up in court until the current occupant of the oval office and his crew's terms are over.

Anonymous said...

ConservativeTreehouse adds the following:

The difference between what Obama promised to the illegal alien community via an “executive order”, and what was delivered days later via an “executive action” reflects a key legal distinction affirming the reality that an “executive order” -to intentionally subvert legislative authority- would have been unconstitutional.

The White House Office of Legal Counsel knew and advised Obama from the outset an executive order was impossible. This aspect Obama himself admitted numerous times over the preceding two years to Latino audiences. Continue reading →