Now that the justices of the Supreme Court have adjourned for their
summer vacation, liberals and progressives can release a collective sigh of
relief and start feeling pretty good about the just-completed term. As a result of this past term the Nation now
has Marriage Equality, Affordable Health Care, and our civil rights laws were
left largely intact, but according to Ian Millhiser, a Senior Fellow at
the Center for American Progress Action Fund, Editor of ThinkProgress Justice, and the author of Injustices: The Supreme Court's History of Comforting the Comfortable and Afflicting the Afflicted we will not feel the same way
about the next Supreme Court term as we will most likely see the revenge of the Supreme Court’s Conservatives as they take on three major cases concerning
Abortion, Affirmative Action in Universities, and Unions. Ian joins me today to talk all about the
upcoming term and how the Conservative Justices’ will strike back. You can also follow Ian on twitter.
Back on November 20, 2014, President Obama announced a
series of executive actions on immigration aimed at reducing deportations for
people who pose no threat to the US and have close family relationships or long
term residence here. In announcing these actions, the President used the phrase
"families not felons" to explain his plan to prioritize immigration
enforcement against some people over others, and while many conservative called
this action “Executive Amnesty” this type of prioritization has been a feature
of U.S. immigration law for quite some time and was even famously used by Beatles
star John Lennon when he faced deportation from the U.S. in the 1970s. Joining me today to talk all about the history,
theory, and application of prosecutorial discretion in immigration law is Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia, a Professor of
Law, and the Director of the Center for Immigrants' Rights at Pennsylvania State University Dickenson School of Law whose new book Beyond Deportation: The Role of Prosecutorial Discretion in Immigration Cases details the role of prosecutorial discretion in the
immigration system and shows the powerful role it plays in protecting individuals
from deportation and saving the government resources.
Listen to The Michelangelo Signorile Show weekdays live from 3-6 pm ET on SiriusXM Progress 127 and on the SiriusXM iPhone, Blackberry and Android apps. Not a subscriber? Not a problem! Listen online any time with a free thirty-day pass or, if you have an if you have an iPhone or Blackberry, go to the app store and download SiriusXM for free, for a 7-day trial, and listen on your phone.
|