Your Voice Will Be Heard: Court Grants ACLJ Amicus Motion in Immigration Case

In an important development in our fight against President Obama’s lawless immigration actions, the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit granted our motion to file an amicus brief on behalf of Texas Senators John Cornyn and Ted Cruz and on behalf of Representatives Bob Goodlatte, Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, and Lamar Smith, former Chairman of the Judiciary Committee.

We also filed on behalf of more than 185,000 ACLJ members who’ve united in opposition to the President’s unconstitutional use of his “pen and phone.”

We submitted our brief to the court March 18th, requesting that the court accept it.

In our brief, we argue that the Court of Appeals should maintain the status quo, and preserve the lower court’s preliminary injunction against the President’s lawless program. Absent an injunction, the Obama Administration could execute its program, essentially legalizing hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants even before the federal courts could decide it constitutionality.

The ACLJ brief before the Fifth Circuit is our third filed so far in this case, and we will continue to file briefs at every stage in this case—up to and including the Supreme Court of the United States.