Acting swiftly to try to get a Supreme Court decision by next summer, the Obama administration on Friday filed the opening papers in United States v. Texas — the epic battle over who controls U.S. immigration policy. The appeal was filed just eleven days after a federal appeals court had blocked enforcement of the policy, which is aimed at postponing deportation of close to five million undocumented immigrants.
The petition and the appeals court ruling are linked and discussed in a post by this author on scotusblog.com.
