HUFFPOST HILL - Literally The Last Day Of Hillary Clinton Being A New Yorker

Tomorrow is the New York primary, when either Bernie Sanders will concede defeat by noting the challenges of facing a home state opponent, or Hillary Clinton will concede defeat by noting the challenges of facing a home state opponent. The Pulitzers were announced today, providing a handful of overworked and underpaid journalists a moment of relief from the nagging doubt that they should’ve taken that corporate PR job. And Mike Lee dropped his leadership bid, presumably opting to position himself as President Ted Cruz’s secretary of mansplaining and show tunes. This is HUFFPOST HILL for Monday, April 18th, 2016:

SCOTUS SKEPTICAL OF IMMIGRATION EXECUTIVE ORDER - Elise Foley and Cristian Farias: " An eight-member Supreme Court appeared skeptical on Monday that President Barack Obama’s decision to defer deportation for millions of undocumented immigrants could be subject to a multi-state legal challenge in a court of law. At issue in the 90-minute hearing in United States v. Texas — perhaps the most deeply political and consequential case the justices will decide this year — are the president’s executive actions on immigration, which have been on hold for more than a year as a result of a conservative challenge from Texas and 25 other states. If Texas and the other states are allowed to sue, “then every case of political disagreement where states disagree [with the federal government] would come before the court,” said Justice Stephen Breyer. At the heart of the case are two constitutional questions: Whether the states have legal “standing” to sue over how the federal government administers immigration policy, and whether the policy itself complies with the mandate that the president “take care” that the laws be faithfully executed. On this latter point, centrist Justice Anthony Kennedy, who in 2012 largely sided with the federal government in another immigration case, seemed to share the concern of the conservatives states that sued to invalidate the president’s programs." [HuffPost]

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