Judges appear skeptical of Obama immigration actions

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

US | Fri Jul 10, 2015 5:52pm EDT

Judges appear skeptical of Obama immigration actions

NEW ORLEANS | BY KATHY FINN

U.S. appeals court judges on Friday appeared divided as they considered President Barack Obama's effort to shield more than 4 million illegal immigrants from deportation, a policy put on hold by a lower court as a presidential overreach.

A three-judge panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals heard arguments in the Obama administration's appeal of the lower court ruling. Two of the three judges expressed skepticism about the government's arguments in defense of Obama's executive actions on immigration, announced last November.

The same court in May rebuffed the administration by declining to overturn the federal district judge's February injunction that temporarily blocked Obama's actions.

Officials in Texas and 25 other states sued in December to stop the administration from launching the program, which would give a reprieve from deportation to some parents of U.S. citizens and permanent residents while expanding a 2012 initiative that applies to illegal immigrants who came the United States as children.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/07/10/us-usa-court-immigration-idUSKCN0PK2IW20150710

[randys1]

1. bullshit

[padfun]

2. I'm confused by the heading

Does this mean ALL judges? Most Judges? Some Judges? One or Two Judges?

[Fred Sanders]

3. The 5th Circuit? Quelle surprise!

The United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit is home to some of the most conservative federal appeals judges in the country. Five of the court's judges once wrote that a man could be executed despite the fact that his lawyer slept through much of his trial.

Wonder why the mass media never mentions that when it comes to pretending this circuit court is not stocked with RW ideologues?

[Wellstone ruled]

4. Same for Don Sigelman.

Cricketts.