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Today, the House of Representatives voted on H. Res. 639, which allows Speaker Paul Ryan to file an amicus brief on behalf of the House of Representatives in the pending Supreme Court case United States v. Texas, which will determine the constitutionality of President Obama’s 2014 executive actions on immigration.

In February 2015, a U.S. District Judge in Texas temporarily blocked the administration from implementing these actions by issuing an injunction while the case is pending. Following today’s vote, Congressman French Hill (AR-02) stated:

“When President Obama decided to implement his so-called ‘immigration reform’ through executive action, he bypassed the Legislative Branch and violated the law. With the recent loss of the most prominent constitutionalist on the Supreme Court, it is imperative the House do everything in its power to remind the eight justices that the president doesn’t have the authority to legislate without congressional consent; establishing uniform rules of naturalization are an enumerated power in Article 1 of our Constitution. While we need to fix our broken immigration system, we must do so in a way that upholds the proper role of each branch of our federal government.”

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