--- title: Obama Admin Appeals Immigration Ruling in Supreme Court description: Obama's plan could shield up to 5 million people from deportation canonical: https://time.com/4122190/president-obama-justice-department-immigration-appeal/ author: NBC News article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-11-20T15:59:46.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:57:05.760Z article:section: Politics og:title: Obama Administration Appeals Immigration Ruling in Supreme Court og:description: Obama's plan could shield up to 5 million people from deportation og:url: https://time.com/4122190/president-obama-justice-department-immigration-appeal/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Obama Administration Appeals Immigration Ruling in Supreme Court twitter:description: Obama's plan could shield up to 5 million people from deportation twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Obama Administration Appeals Immigration Ruling in Supreme Court ## Video: Know Right Now: Obama Fights on Immigration [Watch (HLS stream): Know Right Now: Obama Fights on Immigration](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/vKg1MQrC.m3u8) (1:01)  _Published 2015-11-10. Obama will appeal the U.S. Court of Appeals ruling against his immigration plan_ by [NBC News](https://time.com/author/nbc-news/) ## NBC News Nov 20, 2015 3:59 PM UTC by [NBC News](https://time.com/author/nbc-news/) ## NBC News Nov 20, 2015 3:59 PM UTC The Justice Department filed its appeal today in the U.S. Supreme Court in the case of President Obama’s immigration plan that would shield up to 5 million people from deportation. The government is moving unusually quickly. Just last week, a federal appeals court agreed with Texas and 25 other states that said that the administration illegally tried to put the policy into place without getting public comment first. By filing the appeal so promptly, the administration is hoping it can get this issue heard and decided during the current Supreme Court term. Texas and the states now have 30 days by which to… [Read the rest of the story from our partners at NBC News](http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/doj-file-supreme-court-appeal-immigration-plan-ruling-n466916?cid=par-time%5F20151120) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4122190/president-obama-justice-department-immigration-appeal/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4122190/president-obama-justice-department-immigration-appeal/"},"headline":"Obama Administration Appeals Immigration Ruling in Supreme Court","datePublished":"2015-11-20T15:59:46.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-04T07:57:05.760Z","description":"Obama's plan could shield up to 5 million people from deportation","url":"https://time.com/4122190/president-obama-justice-department-immigration-appeal/","keywords":["Supreme Court"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"NBC News","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/nbc-news/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/supreme-court/","name":"Supreme Court"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4122190/president-obama-justice-department-immigration-appeal/","name":"Obama Administration Appeals Immigration Ruling in Supreme Court"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Know Right Now: Obama Fights on Immigration","description":"Obama will appeal the U.S. Court of Appeals ruling against his immigration plan","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/vKg1MQrC/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2015-11-10T18:05:51.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/vKg1MQrC.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/4122190/president-obama-justice-department-immigration-appeal/","duration":"PT1M1S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/4122190/president-obama-justice-department-immigration-appeal/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```