This must be a pretty slow news day, or maybe we’ve just gotten spoiled. Regardless, nice picture of soon-to-be Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell, a man apparently without much in his in-tray.
If the Congress doesn’t appropriate enough money to enable the President to round up and deport virtually every person who’s here without proper documentation, it has, in effect, given the President the authority to prioritize the cases.
This is not complicated.
Finally! Now the SCOTUS will know how the Senate Republicans feel about the President. And immigrants. And the SCOTUS.
They can file SCOTUS briefs but can’t do their Constitutional SCOTUS role???
Methinks McTurtle and his nefarious gang filed this as a test case, seeing as how all the recent SC decisions have gone against them. To wit, losing this one would signal to McTurtle the need to drop his highly partisan fight in opposing any SC nominee’s successful nomination by Obama.
Lose this case and the SC’s may also be sending him a message: hey dummy, we need a ninth SC justice and now, not next year!
Considering their inaction in their Constitutional role, how can they call this brief an “amicus?”
Because GOD FORBID they do anything remotely related to their damn JOBS…instead the are just whining, spending tax payer dollars and sniveling.
I guess Nino would have been the lone negatory on that 1 person, 1 vote thang…His Dissenting Opinion would have been interesting.
If Fat Tony weren’t taking a dirt nap, the vote would have been 7-2. Thomas would have gone along.
Oops, I forgot Silent Long Dong…er, Justice Thomas.
The next time your local GOP turd, er, congressperson, starts speaking about Obama overreaching on immigration be sure to ask them why the GOP never bothered to deal with immigration reform when they could have. And then ask them why they deserve to be paid.
The GOP Senators running for reelection need to hide their hatred of our President. Maybe voters should make them hide permanently.
If the vote is 4-4, I suppose that means what people have to do is move from the 5th Judicial District -which encompasses Texas- to a different part of the country, as no national precedent would have been set.
I propose the term “animus brief”.
It’s funny that they endlessly accuse their enemies of dividing the country, yet here their obstruction is literally leading to a situation where laws are going to be enforced different depending on circuit court divisions. Talk about dividing the nation…
Only because “Assholius” isn’t really Latin.
“Senate Republicans are moving to file an amicus brief in the Supreme Court…”
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Calling themselves “friends of the court”…is that even ethical?
I trust that none of the 24 Republican Senators in the final year of their terms of office are participating in this, opting instead to coast for the final 9 months, to allow the American People to have “a voice” in how it views the administration’s immigration policy.