Thursday, June 23, 2016

Supreme Court Tie Blocks Obama on Immigration; Letdown for Millions Who Came to the US Illegally

The U.S. Supreme Court blocked President Obama's effort to protect more than four million undocumented immigrants from the threat of deportation today (June 23, 2016), deadlocking 4-4 over a plan that divided the nation as well as the justices, according to the USA Today website.

The vote leaves intact lower federal court rulings that stopped the program in its tracks more than a year ago, after Texas and 25 other states claimed Obama lacked the authority to go around Congress.

It was a sudden, crushing defeat for millions of parents who came to the U.S. illegally and have lived in the shadows, often for decades.

Like several other tie rulings since Justice Scalia's death in February left the court with only eight justices, the one-sentence opinion simply announced that the court was "equally divided" and unable to muster a majority for either side. The U.S. Senate has decided to wait until a new president is sworn into office in January before it will confirm a new supreme court justice to replace Justice Scalia.

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