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The Supreme Court announced Thursday that it had reached a 4-4 decision in its ruling on President Barack Obama’s immigration plan, which he had implemented through executive action in 2014. The court’s stalemate allows for a lower court’s decision to stand, which blocks Obama’s immigration plan. Eric Citron, a partner at the law firm Goldstein & Russell and a former clerk to Justices Sandra Day O’Connor and Elena Kagan, discusses the precedent set by this ruling.
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