FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
NEWS RELEASE
January 19, 2016
For More Information, contact:
Luther Strange
Mike Lewis (334) 353-2199
Alabama Attorney General
Joy Patterson (334) 242-7491
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AG STRANGE STATEMENT REGARDING U.S. SUPREME COURT
GRANTING CERTIORARI IN STATES’ CHALLENGE TO PRESIDENT’S
EXECUTIVE ACTION ON IMMIGRATION
(MONTGOMERY) – Alabama Attorney General Luther Strange today released
the following statement after the U.S. Supreme Court granted certiorari in the states’
challenge to President Obama’s executive action on immigration:
“I am pleased the United State Supreme Court will soon take up President Obama’s
illegal action on immigration. The question the Court will address goes far beyond
whether President Obama can unilaterally grant amnesty to more than four million
unauthorized aliens. On issue after issue – whether it’s failing to enforce our nation’s
criminal laws, undermining our Second Amendment rights, or imposing job-killing
environmental policies – this president and his administration have ignored the rule of
law, circumventing Congress and the will of the people. This case presents an
opportunity for the Supreme Court to send a strong message that no one is above the
law, not even the president.”
Alabama is part of a 26-state coalition against the president’s overreach on immigration.
Federal courts have ruled in the states’ favor three times, most recently in the U.S. Court
of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
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