Court throws out Arizona sheriff's immigration policy challenge

[jpak]

Source: Reuters

A federal appeals court on Friday threw out a lawsuit brought by an Arizona sheriff who argued that President Barack Obama's executive actions on immigration were unconstitutional.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit upheld a district court judge's finding that Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio lacked standing to sue, a provision in U.S. law that means he has to prove he has been directly harmed.

He claimed his office had been injured by Obama's November 2014 orders that are designed to ease the threat of deportation for about 4.7 million undocumented immigrants.

Judge Nina Pillard, writing on behalf of a three-judge panel, said Arpaio's claims "rest on speculation beyond that permitted" by the court's precedents.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/08/14/us-usa-court-immigration-idUSKCN0QJ1I920150814

[Wounded Bear]

1. Arpaio is the one who should be deported..

as un-American.

[cosmicone]

2. We should trade him for a few hostages held by ISIS n/t

[jwirr]

3. Finally.

[DirkGently]

4. Is Arpaio somehow still not in jail? n/t

[A Simple Game]

5. No he's in jail, the problem is he's on the wrong side of the bars. n/t