Is Judge Hanen’s Smackdown of Executive Action on Immigration “Narrowly Crafted”? - Anil Kalhan

"[L]et’s not be under any illusions: Judge Hanen’s opinion is remarkably sweeping in its tenor and its potential significance — and ultimately does not turn on any sort of distinction between the exercise of prosecutorial discretion, on the one hand, and the extension of “affirmative benefits,” on the other.  The ruling should be understood as “narrowly crafted” in the same sense that someone wielding a velvet-lined sledgehammer as a weapon should be understood as “subtle.”" - Anil Kalhan, Feb. 21, 2015.