Today in Supreme Court History: October 7, 1982

10/7/1982: I.N.S. v. Chadha was argued.

Comments

[Syd Henderson]

I mentioned on the earlier post that the day it was decided was the important day, but maybe something more important happened on that date. There were actually three Chadha cases, this one, one involving the Senate and one involving the House, but they all involved the same delegation issue. I'm not sure though that if the House and Senate acted together (rather than separately) to deport him whether that would have been okay.