One member of a three-judge panel issued a strongly worded dissent and criticized the majority for moving slowly when the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit upheld a district court’s halting of the Obama administration’s plans to implement new immigration rules.
“I have a firm and definite conviction that a mistake has been made. That mistake has been exacerbated by the extended delay that has occurred in deciding this ‘expedited’ appeal. There is no justification for that delay,” Fifth Circuit Judge Carolyn King wrote in her dissent to the majority opinion drafted by Fifth Circuit Judge Jerry E. Smith, who was joined by Judge Jennifer Walker Elrod.
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