Supreme Court ot Hear Oral Arguments about President's Use of Executive Power on Immigration.
WHITFIELD: Immigration reform is one of President Obama's biggest priorities during his second term. And tomorrow its fate lies in the hands of the U.S. Supreme Court. The justices will hear oral arguments about the president's use of executive power to bypass what he considers to be congressional inaction on immigration. The ruling will affect millions - of people. CNN Supreme Court reporter, Ariane de Vogue join me now from Washington. So Ariane, what exactly are the issues the court is considering and what is at stake?</s>ARIANE DE VOGUE, CNN SUPREME COURT REPORTER: Well, it's interesting. It's over a year ago that President Obama unveiled what he thought would absenter piece of his next term and that's immigration reform. The executive actions were meant to shield what could be millions of undocumented immigrants from deportation. But that all came it a screeching halt when Texas and 25 other states sued trying to block the programs from going forward. And a federal district court judge in Texas agreed and did block the programs from going forward nationwide. The administration says, look, we have broad discretion here. We have the ability to prioritize but the states came back and say you may be able to prioritize but you can come back and make law. And that is what occurred here. And in a usual move, the House of Representatives have been granted 15 minutes to argue. And their lawyers say, look, Obama went to Congress. And he was frustrated by Congress inability to move and what did is try to bypass Congress and he can't do that. That's the argument.</s>WHITFIELD: So will the death of conservative Justice Antonin Scalia affect the potential outcome?</s>DE VOGUE: Well these programs -- there are two programs. And one really targets parents of those citizens and lawful residents and another targets noncitizens who were brought here as children. If the court does go 4-4, then it's left to uphold the lower court decision and that blocked the programs. But this case has an unusual threshold issue here. And that is the administration says that the states don't have the standing or the legal right to be in court. And if the court dismisses on standing, that would be the program's would-be allowed to go into effect and the Supreme Court would have ruled on the issue without really getting to immigration itself.</s>WHITFIELD: And when potentially could there be a court ruling?</s>DE VOGUE: Well the death of Justice Scalia has skewed everything. But we will expect by the end of probably the end of June, early July, we will hear from the cot on this.</s>WHITFIELD: All right, Ariane de Vogue, thank you so much from Washington.</s>DE VOGUE: Thank you.</s>WHITFIELD: We have so much more straight ahead in the NEWSROOM. And it all starts right now. All right. Hello again, everyone. And thanks so much for joining me. I'm Fredricka Whitfield. It is the final countdown in New York where the candidates are holding campaign events in a last push to woo voters ahead of Tuesday's primary. Donald Trump just wrapping a rally in Poughkeepsie, New York. And Bernie Sanders is in his own stumping grounds of Brooklyn. That event about to get underway. CNN's Chris Frates is in Poughkeepsie and Brynn Gingras is in Prospect Park. All right. Brynn, let me begin with you. Oh, yes, sounds so much better now, now we have a lull in all the music. So tell me about what is happening there.</s>GINGRAS: Yes, I was ready to send it back to you and let me start dancing at that point, Fred. But yes. It is getting a little rowdy here and it is about to get even more rowdy. We are actually seeing the journalists who travel with the Sanders' campaign coming in so that's a sure sign he is about to take the stage. And he is expected to at 4:00. But this crowd, I got to tell you, 27,000 people in Washington Square Park last week. And I'm not the best that crowd estimate, but I got to say we are close to that or at least definitely more than that at this point. And I have got to give the Sanders supporters a lot of credit. Because it is extremely hot out here for this spring day. But that is actually probably fuel the crowd. Many of them started lining up at 9:30 this morning for his 4:00 speech. So yes, these are die hard supporters --