Lawsuits against President Obama’s executive action for immigrants suffered a serious setback just before Christmas, when a federal judge threw Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s case out of court. But a bigger lawsuit, filed by 25 states, is still pending, and its first hearing is scheduled for next week. Today at the...
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Sheriff Joe Arpaio has not been having a good time in court lately. Not only is he in serious trouble with the law himself at home in Arizona, but his lawsuit against President Obama’s executive action was tossed out two days before Christmas. And now, yet another federal judge has issued...
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Today, immigration, civil rights, and labor groups joined the legal effort to defend President Obama’s recent executive action on immigration by filing an amicus (“friend-of-the-court”) brief in the case, State of Texas v. United States. Twenty-five states are currently suing the President over executive action, a case which will receive...
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It’s a victory for the immigration reform movement — and one more loss for Larry Klayman‘s terrible record. From Politico: President Barack Obama’s executive actions on immigration survived their first major court test Tuesday, when a federal judge tossed out a lawsuit claiming the president exceeded his constitutional power. U.S. District...
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It’s increasingly clear that various legal challenges to President Obama’s executive actions on immigration are more about politics and generating headlines than actual constitutional considerations. Yesterday, Judge Beryl Howell of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia heard the first legal challenge directly about the constitutionality of...
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Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s lawsuit against President Obama’s executive action received a court hearing in Washington, DC yesterday — and all accounts are reporting that the judge, Beryl Howell of the US District Court in Washington, did not seem impressed. As the Washington Post and Politico wrote of the judge’s questioning of...
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Sheriff Joe Arpaio today is asking a federal judge to suspend President Obama’s executive action until a court ruling can be issued on the constitutionality of the action. In other words, it’s three days before Christmas, and Arpaio is petitioning a federal court for the resumption of deportations that separate families....
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This week, a federal judge in Pennsylvania ruled that executive action is unconstitutional. As legal experts and opinion makers have already pointed out, there are quite a number of things wrong with this decision: there was absolutely no reason to use this case to hand down such a ruling,...
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We know that Sheriff Joe Arpaio is capable of being motivated by spite. In 2009, Arpaio gloated that “after they went after me, we arrested 500 more just for spite.” When he was asked about it in 2012, Arpaio only doubled down: “It was wrong,” he said. “It wasn’t 500. It was...
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Wisconsin is one of the 24 states currently suing President Obama over executive action, despite the fact that the Badger State stands to gain $19 million over 5 years from increased tax revenue as a result of executive action. Today, five-term Rep. Gwen Moore (D-WI) published a letter to Wisconsin’s Attorney General...
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