Frequently Asked Questions Regarding the Supreme Court's 4-4 Split on Immigration (open access)

Frequently Asked Questions Regarding the Supreme Court's 4-4 Split on Immigration

This report addresses commonly asked questions regarding the Supreme Court's evenly-divided June 23, 2016 decision about immigration. Consistent with recent practice, the decision affirms without any opinion or indication of the Justices' voting alignment an earlier decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit barring the Obama Administration from implementing two initiatives that would potentially have granted relief from removal to millions of aliens who entered or remained in the United States in violation of federal immigration law and lack legal immigration status.
Date: June 24, 2016
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System: The UNT Digital Library