June 24, 2016 7:31 PM

KR: DAPA opinion sets new precedent at U.S. Supreme Court

“Although the one-sentence affirmance by an equally divided Court doesn’t tell us much, we now know that at least four Justices thought Texas had standing to bring this case”

Law professors around the country consider the ruling in Texas’ DAPA challenge yesterday to be precedent-setting event and not simply because it put a major obstacle in Pres. Barack Obama’s efforts to slow down the deportation of millions of illegal immigrants.

And the credit goes to Texas. Gov. Greg Abbott’s campaign put out a video this morning touting yesterday’s victory and also sent along a press clipping from the Wall Street Journal that called Texas the Obama administration’s “most relentless adversary.”

“The president’s job is to enforce the law, not write the law,” Abbott said in the video. “As the president himself admitted, he violated the Constitution. He said 20 times he did not have the authority to rewrite the law. But yet, he acted as a king and rewrote it himself because he could not get Congress to do what he wanted them to do.”

By Kimberly Reeves