FIVE months ago, the Supreme Court turned back a challenge to the Affordable Care Act that would have scuttled Barack Obama’s signature legislative achievement. On November 21st, the president’s solicitor general, Donald Verrilli, asked the Supremes for another favour. Mr Verrilli urges the justices to step in to save Mr Obama’s immigration plan before the president bids farewell to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue on January 20th 2017.
The president announced the policy changes a year ago via a series of executive orders. Since Congress had failed to pass an immigration package, Mr Obama explained, he would do what he could within the boundaries of existing law to ease the plight of some of America’s 11m undocumented migrants. But Republicans cried foul. By unilaterally delaying the deportation of some 4.4m...Continue reading
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