With Scalia dead we are dead
The appeals court ruled against Obama. If the USSC is split, that previous ruling stands.
No wonder Obama wants to add one more justice to the Court.
From the article:
“A 4-4 ruling would effectively scuttle the issue until after Obama leaves office in nine months, and mean at least a temporary setback to his domestic policy legacy — even if the justices punt, and choose to reargue the case when Scalia’s replacement is sworn in. The justices also could rule narrowly on procedure, finding a compromise on a technical issue not directly related to the larger policy questions.”
(1) foreign nationals in the US must at least avoid criminal activity,
(2) foreigners must stay off public assistance,
(3) the US govt is disinclined to grant "asylum" (means a free ride on the US gravy train and endless SS payments) to “fearful refugees” from war-torn Islamic regions,
(4) on-the-book govt mandates force struggling taxpayers to foot the bill for the refugees to go back and forth between America and their supposedly hostile homelands on the taxpayers' dime.
(NOTE: The Tsarnev bomber's family was flown to his Boston trial on the taxpyers' dime. While planning the bombing the entire family---of all ages from elderly to newborn---pocketed every known Massachusetts and US govt handout.)