The Immigration Lawyers Podcast | Discussing Visas, Green Cards & Citizenship: Practice & Policy
There are not many precedential decisions on the Hague Act adoption process, and there are even fewer on what is required to circumvent it in a legal way.
This imposes, by all originalist and precedential accounts, a weighty obligation on both the president and subordinates to enforce the law in the ways that they are written.
The Immigration Lawyers Podcast | Discussing Visas, Green Cards & Citizenship: Practice & Policy
And if the Fourth Circuit is open to an interpretation that a past precedential decision is only binding as to the narrow issue it adjudicated and to that specific party, that's a huge deal.