To: U.S. Department of Justice
Department of Justice: Ask the Supreme Court to rehear the U.S. v. Texas case
The Department of Justice must do everything possible to limit the scope of the injunction left in place by the Supreme Court’s split decision on Texas v. U.S. and file a motion for rehearing pending the confirmation of a ninth Supreme Court Justice.
Why is this important?
Due to Senate Republicans’ refusal to fill the U.S. Supreme Court vacancy left by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia, a partisan lawsuit attacking President Obama’s executive actions on immigration was affirmed by an equally divided Supreme Court.
The U.S. Supreme Court recently issued a 4-4 split decision on a Republican lawsuit that sought to derail President Obama’s 2014 immigration executive actions, known as DAPA and DACA+.
Legally it’s as if the Supreme Court never heard U.S. v. Texas, meaning that the Court’s failure to rule has left in place an anti-immigrant injunction blocking the implementation of DAPA and DACA+ -- leaving millions of immigrants across the country without the immigration relief they so desperately need.
By failing to rule in U.S. v. Texas, a short-staffed U.S. Supreme Court has effectively put the lives of millions of immigrant families on hold; denying them the opportunity to apply for a work permit or a driver’s license.
If we want to ensure that the Supreme Court can appropriately interpret the law of the land, then cases like U.S. v. Texas must be reargued before a full Supreme Court.
We demand that the Department of Justice recognizes the extraordinary circumstances surrounding the U.S. v. Texas case, and does everything possible to limit the scope of the injunction and file a motion for rehearing pending the confirmation of a ninth Supreme Court Justice.
The U.S. Supreme Court recently issued a 4-4 split decision on a Republican lawsuit that sought to derail President Obama’s 2014 immigration executive actions, known as DAPA and DACA+.
Legally it’s as if the Supreme Court never heard U.S. v. Texas, meaning that the Court’s failure to rule has left in place an anti-immigrant injunction blocking the implementation of DAPA and DACA+ -- leaving millions of immigrants across the country without the immigration relief they so desperately need.
By failing to rule in U.S. v. Texas, a short-staffed U.S. Supreme Court has effectively put the lives of millions of immigrant families on hold; denying them the opportunity to apply for a work permit or a driver’s license.
If we want to ensure that the Supreme Court can appropriately interpret the law of the land, then cases like U.S. v. Texas must be reargued before a full Supreme Court.
We demand that the Department of Justice recognizes the extraordinary circumstances surrounding the U.S. v. Texas case, and does everything possible to limit the scope of the injunction and file a motion for rehearing pending the confirmation of a ninth Supreme Court Justice.