Court upholds block on Obama immigration moves
White House expected to appeal to SCOTUS
By Ariane de Vogue CNN Supreme Court Reporter
WASHINGTON (CNN)

A federal appeals court said on Monday night that President Barack Obama's controversial executive actions on immigration must remain blocked from going into effect.

A 2-1 panel of judges on the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals said that a lower court did not "abuse its discretion" when it said that challengers to the law were likely to succeed in their claim that the programs were unlawful because they didn't comply with the Administrative Procedure Act, a law that sets forward how federal agencies can establish regulations.

The ruling is a loss for the President who made immigration reform a key second term initiative. The administration is expected to appeal the decision to the Supreme Court could hear the matter this term. The timing will depend on whether the Justice Department appeals the decision directly to the Supreme Court.

"Immigrant families and their U.S. Children have been waiting anxiously for the Fifth Circuit to rule, we urge the (Justice Department) to immediately ask the Supreme Court to review this erroneous decision," said Karen Tumlin, of the National Immigration Law Center.

The challenge was brought by Texas and 25 other states and the opponents of Obama's executive actions welcomed the decision.

"Today, the Fifth Circuit asserted that the separation of powers remains the law of the land, and the President must follow the rule of law, just like everybody else," said Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in a statement. "Throughout this process, the Obama administration has aggressively disregarded the constitutional limits on executive power, and Texas, leading a charge of 26 states, has secured an important victory to put a halt to the President's lawlessness.


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Gee.... a Constitutional lawyer tried to make unconstitutional law?

Who'd a thunk it?

Does it really matter?

They're all here.

They're all running around.

They're all getting some kind of benefit.


Does anyone believe they are sitting around at like the airport or on the other side of the border waiting for a decision that says "m'okay, you're all cool."

They're here, they're running around, they're influencing wherever they go.

I don't think they're living any differently than if the supreme court upheld the executive action.

The ONLY one that has to except anything is Obama. He has NO authority over The Department of Immigration. His 'executive order ' was against the law & therefore null & void.

Hopefully he'll have the decency to explain & apologize to millions of people, on millions of buses that he is not Emperor... & he can sing with the criminals .. ' over the river & through the woods to grandma's house we go'

It'd be unconstitutional if executive orders weren't in the constitution exclusive to the sitting POTUS.

So all the 'conservatives' want to get rid of 11 million illegal immigrants but when a democrat who has exhausted his efforts working across the isle to deport 5 million people constitutionally where INS has failed and continues to fail he's abusing his power...

Stupid. This is the dumbest thing I have ever seen ANY government do in my life.