HUFFPOST HILL - Government Shutdown Tantalizingly Possible!

Eighty-one percent of Americans would rather hear Christmas music than political ads on the radio, though that doesn’t count “White Christmas,” which Republicans cite as proof that global warming is a hoax. HuffPost staffers asked management to recognize their unionizing with the Writers Guild of America, because we’ve always wanted to strike in solidarity with the writers of “Chicago Fire.” And the Supreme Court will likely rule on the constitutionality of President Obama’s immigration order by next June, which might constitute a campaign violation as it will basically be one giant piece of earned Hispanic-targeted media for Hillary Clinton. This is HUFFPOST HILL for Tuesday, December 1st, 2015:

OBAMA GETS TINY SUPREME COURT WIN ON IMMIGRATION - We hereby award a smattering of political points. Cristian Farias: "It looks like President Barack Obama may get a chance to defend his immigration policies in court before he leaves office. The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday granted a request from the federal government that essentially secures timely consideration of Obama's executive actions on immigration -- raising the likelihood that the justices will hear the case in the spring and decide it by the end of June, when their current term ends. Since the administration filed its appeal of the case to the Supreme Court in late November, Texas and U.S. Solicitor General Donald Verrilli had been embroiled in a procedural tussle over timing. Texas, the lead plaintiff in 26 states' suit against the executive actions Obama announced last year, had been seeking to delay consideration of the appeal, while Verrilli argued that a delay was unwarranted. Supreme Court clerk Scott Harris said Tuesday in a notice to lawyers for the parties that Texas would have until Dec. 29 to respond to the administration's appeal. This effectively puts the dispute on track to be considered at the justices' Jan. 15, 2016, conference." [HuffPost]

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