Lyle Denniston

Feb 20 2015

Government to move quickly on immigration case

The Obama administration plans to move next week to get a delay of the federal judge’s ruling blocking the new deportation-delay policy, the White House told news reporters on Friday.  The challenge will be filed no later than Monday, according to the president’s press secretary, Josh Earnest, as quoted by various media.

It was not immediately clear whether the postponement request will be filed with the judge in District Court in Texas, or with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. The normal route would be to start in the District Court. The press secretary indicated that a postponement will be sought to allow at least some resumption of the policy while a government appeal proceeds.

Judge Andrew S. Hanen of Brownsville on Monday ruled that the administration had not followed proper procedures in adopting the program that would lead to deferral of deportation for up to five million undocumented immigrants.

Lyle Denniston continues to write about the U.S. Supreme Court, although he “retired” at the end of 2019 following more than six decades on that news beat. He was there for three revolutions – civil rights, women’s rights, and gay rights – and the start of a fourth, on transgender rights. His career of following the law began at the Otoe County Courthouse in his hometown, Nebraska City, Nebraska, in the fall of 1948. His online, eight-week, college-level course – “The Supreme Court and American Politics” – is available from the University of Baltimore Law School, and it is free.

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