Immigration Case Injects Supreme Court Into Election-Year Storm
- Justices hear arguments Monday on Obama's executive action
- President seeks to shield up to 5 million from deportation
Pro-immigration protesters rally in front of the U.S. Supreme Court on March 18, 2016, in Washington.
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Donald Trump and Ted Cruz insist they’d deport the 11 million immigrants who are in the U.S. illegally. That’s giving the Supreme Court reason to tread carefully when it takes up President Barack Obama’s plan to keep as many as 5 million of them here.
Even before Justice Antonin Scalia’s death two months ago, the November election made the case a tricky one, threatening to put the court into a "political maelstrom," according to a brief filed by former U.S. Solicitor General Walter Dellinger in support of the administration.