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Petition of the day

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Thepetition of the day is:

16-1180

Issues:(1) Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit erred in creating an immigration-specific rule under which state police power regulations that arrang[e] federal immigration classifications are pre-empted, even if pre-emption was not the clear and manifest purpose of Congress; and (2) whether the 9th Circuit erred in assuming that the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, an executive-branch policy of non-enforcement, was valid federal law capable of pre-empting a state police power regulation.

Cases: Brewer v. Arizona Dream Act Coalition

Recommended Citation: Aurora Barnes, Petition of the day, SCOTUSblog (Jun. 6, 2017, 12:00 AM), https://www.scotusblog.com/2017/06/petition-of-the-day-1170/