Chad’s Morning Brief: President Obama to Reassure Hispanic Activists, Supreme Court Passes on Gay Marriage for Now, and Other Top Stories

The United States Supreme Court won't take up the issue of gay marriage this term, at least not yet. According to the Washington Post, numerous states have asked the Supreme Court to decide and issue that splits voters.

There is still plenty of time for the court to act on the question and rule on the issue during the new term that begins on Monday and will end next June. Those who study the court and even the lawyers making the requests have said they expect it could be weeks or months before the justices decide whether to hear the issue, although most think it almost impossible for the court to pass up.

If the court takes up the question, it has to then decide which of the cases provides the best vehicle for a decision.

The justices could also simply let the appeals court decisions stand, although that is considered unlikely, since the Supreme Court has stopped the marriages authorized by those rulings to take place.

So far, all three appeals courts that have ruled on the question have struck down the bans on same-sex marriage. Usually, the Supreme Court waits for a split among those circuits before taking a case. But more than 30 states, on both sides of the issue, have asked the nation’s highest court to resolve the issue.

The court returned earlier this week to consider nearly 2,000 petitions that had accumulated during the justices’ summer break. It will not be known until next week which of the cases they rejected and which they will reconsider at a later date, but they did accept new cases that raise important questions involving election law and discrimination.

Eventually the Supreme Court will take up the matter and I believe once they do they will rule in favor of gay marriage.

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Hispanic Caucus

President Obama hopes to reassure Hispanic activists and lawmakers that he is committed to taking executive action on immigration. On Thursday Obama spoke to The Hispanic Caucus about this issue according to The Hill.

President Obama will seek to reassure Latino elected officials and activists that he’s committed to taking executive actions on immigration during a speech Thursday night to the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute.

The remarks will be the president's first public address on immigration since his decision last month to put off any action until after the midterm elections.

“The president will reiterate his continuous commitment to immigration reform and to fix as much of our immigration system as he can on his own,” a White House official said.
Obama’s decision disappointed Hispanic lawmakers and other activists pushing the White House to change deportation policies. Rep. Luis Gutiérrez (D-Ill.) accused Obama of “walking away from our values and our principles” during an interview last month with ABC News.

Obama made the decision with an eye on November, hoping it would boost his party’s chances of keeping its Senate majority. But it appears to have contributed to his falling approval ratings, particularly with base Democratic voters.

It’s also stoked new fears among pro-immigration reform activists that the president might never take the type of sweeping steps they've been fighting for.

The administration has scrambled to calm those fears over the past few weeks, with top administration officials repeatedly insisting the president will act before the end of the year.

Vice President Biden hosted a Hispanic Heritage Month reception at his home late last month, and said at the event that Obama was “absolutely committed to moving forward.” Biden added that the president would move ahead “with or without” Congress and that “if they don't get something done by the end of this year, the president's going to do it.”

White House press secretary Josh Earnest told Telemundo last weekend that Obama would “make good” on his promise to implement executive actions to address problems with the immigration system by the end of the year.

“This is a promise the president will keep,” Earnest said.

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