Obama Judge Who Blocked Somali Deportations Just Changed Her Mind — After This Threat From GOP Lawmaker

The race-discrimination claim died alongside the stay. “After Mullin, which included a constitutional race-discrimination claim, the Court cannot discern a path to concluding that Plaintiffs will succeed on the merits of this claim,” Burroughs wrote.

This matters enormously — and not just for the Somali TPS case. The left’s strategy for blocking immigration enforcement has been to slap race-discrimination labels on every policy it dislikes, knowing that accusation alone can slow down enforcement for months or years in sympathetic courts. The Supreme Court’s Mullin decision closed that particular door, and Burroughs finally acknowledged it.

Rep. Ogles had said it plainly when he filed the impeachment articles: “SCOTUS made it very clear that lower courts cannot suspend TPS. Yet, an Obama-appointed judge is defying the Court and the Constitution in an attempt to subvert the will of the President.”

He was right. The timing of Burroughs’ reversal — coming shortly after the impeachment articles were formally introduced — suggests that the prospect of congressional accountability sharpened her legal analysis considerably. Whether that accountability mechanism is the right way to discipline wayward district court judges is a legitimate debate. What isn’t a debate is the result: the deportations can proceed.