The Obama administration met the short deadline to file an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court from the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals decision regarding President Obama’s immigration executive orders for DACA and DAPA eligible immigrants. The purpose of quickly filing this appeal is to get the case heard by the Court and decided before the end of June 2016 to prevent any further delay. Of course, any one of the 26 “Red State” plaintiff’s that brought this case can request a delay for additional time to respond to the appeal, negating the administration’s timely filing.
Any delay could kick this case into the Court’s next term beginning in October 2016. The appeal would not be decided until after a new president takes office in January 2017. I fully expect the Red State respondents to play this delay gambit.
Lyle Denniston at SCOTUSblog reports, U.S. appeals on immigration policy :
One year after President Barack Obama took historic steps to overhaul immigration policy, his lawyers on Friday appealed (.pdf) to the Supreme Court to uphold his plan and let it go into effect. It is currently stalled by lower court rulings finding that the president probably overstepped his powers in bypassing Congress to put off deportation for nearly five million undocumented immigrants.