Ryan sets ‘extraordinary’ vote on immigration case

Published March 1, 2016 4:11pm ET



House Republicans are scheduling a vote in the next few weeks that would clear the way for lawmakers to file a brief in the Supreme Court case that will decide whether President Obama overstepped his authority with his 2014 executive action on immigration.

Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., said the House will vote on a resolution allowing the House to file the brief in the United States v. State of Texas case. With a big majority of Republicans, the resolution is all but guaranteed to pass.

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