Wall Street Journal
By Jacob Gershman
May 28, 2015
In
the wake of the latest court ruling against President Barack Obama‘s
immigration order, the president’s top domestic policy adviser said
Thursday that she suspects
the Supreme Court would have the final say on the fate of the
administration’s plan to defer deportations for millions of undocumented
immigrants.
In
an interview with MSNBC, White House domestic policy director Cecilia
Muñoz was asked about the legal uncertainty surrounding Mr. Obama’s
immigration action. Said Ms.
Muñoz:
We
think that the case that we’re arguing in July may ultimately get to
the Supreme Court. The challenge is that if we were to appeal this stay,
the decision that happened
this week, one way or the other, whether the government won or lost, we
would still have this other argument to make and people would not have
the certainty they need in order to benefit from this program. So this
is about making sure that we are fighting
vigorously, winning the case on the merits, so that when the time comes
that we’re implementing this program, people can be sure that it’s not
going to get further entangled in litigation.
The
Obama administration, as WSJ’s Nathan Koppel reports, has already
decided it won’t contest Tuesday’s ruling by a Fifth U.S. Circuit Court
of Appeals panel declining
to stay an earlier injunction that left the president’s executive
action in limbo with just over a year and a half before he leaves
office.
A
spokesman for the Justice Department said Wednesday that the agency
will focus on a separate appeal of the February injunction that is
scheduled to be heard by the Fifth
Circuit in July.
The
president’s plan, announced last year, would allow more than four
million people in the country illegally to apply for deferred
deportation and work authorizations,
among other benefits.
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