WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) and 42 other Senate Republicans today filed an amicus brief with the United States Supreme Court in support of the State of Texas’ challenge to the Obama Administration’s November 2014 executive actions on immigration.
The Supreme Court agreed to hear the United States of America vs. State of Texas case after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in November of 2015 upheld an injunction by a federal district court in Brownsville blocking the Obama Administration from moving forward with its executive actions on immigration. The courts have blocked the President because his actions violate federal law. The Supreme Court is set to hear arguments on this case on April 18.
“What is at stake in this matter is nothing less than an effort to supplant Congress’s constitutional power to ‘establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization.’ Such an action stands in stark contravention to federal law and to the constitutional principle of the separation of powers,” Sen. Cornyn and the other Senators wrote in the brief. “There is little doubt that the Executive adopted the Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents (“DAPA”) program as part of an explicit effort to circumvent the legislative process.”
The amicus brief can be found here.
Senator John Cornyn, a Republican from Texas, is a member of the Senate Judiciary and Finance Committees.