via lawandcrime:
Justice Samuel Alito stood alone Friday in opposing the rest of the Supreme Court’s ruling that Texas and Louisiana lacked standing to challenge the Biden administration Department of Homeland Security’s 2021 “Guidelines for the Enforcement of Civil Immigration Law.”
The conservative justice raised complaints about “sweeping Executive Power” being “endorsed” by the Justice Brett Kavanaugh-led majority, which included Chief Justice John Roberts, Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Justice Elena Kagan, and Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson. Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote an opinion concurring in the judgment, which Justice Clarence Thomas and Justice Amy Coney Barrett joined. Barrett herself penned a concurrence in the judgment, which Gorsuch joined.
The majority held in United States v. Texas that the red state challengers lacked standing to sue over the Biden administration’s immigration enforcement priorities.
“According to Texas and Louisiana, the arrest policy spelled out in the Department of Homeland Security’s 2021 Guidelines does not comply with the statutory arrest mandates in §1226(c) and §1231(a)(2). The States want the Federal Judiciary to order the Department to alter its arrest policy so that the Department arrests more noncitizens,” Kavanaugh wrote. “The threshold question is whether the States have standing under Article III to maintain this suit. The answer is no.”
There’s a strong case to be made that Barack Obama was the most arrogant, self-centered president in modern history. The “smartest guy in the room” said “me, me, me” more times in one speech than an opera tenor warming up for an aria. Four and a half years after leaving office, Cocky Dude hasn’t lost a step.
Obama’s other most-recognizable “quality” is the height of his hypocrisy.
While blatant hypocrisy is the coin of the left-wing realm, nobody does it with more aplomb than the de facto head of the Democrat Party. (Sorry, Joe, you’re not that guy— not even close.)
In a CNN special titled “Obama & Amanpour,” O delivered a veritable masterclass on all of the above.