This is CBS, I on the World.

I'm John Batchel.

I welcome Joseph Postal, writing most recently a Civitas Outlook for Civitas Institute.

He's at the Hillsdale College about a case in the Supreme Court more than 40 years ago that let's say it doesn't need correction

and needs a more perfect union.

Joseph, a very good evening to you.

Thank you, Professor.

Jagdish Rai Chada was a man in the 20th century who faced deportation.

According to an immigration judge, however,

he suspended his deportation subject to, at that time,

the question of Congress or a congressional veto or endorsement of the immigration order,

the order for him to leave the country. That turned into a Supreme

Court case named as Chata. I hope I said all this correctly. What was then debatable about

the power of the Immigration and Nationality Act that a judge could intervene and suspend the deportation,

then it goes to Congress and then it goes to the Supreme Court. What was the controversy? Good

evening to you. Good evening, John. Thanks for the opportunity to talk with you today. So the

controversy here that gave rise to this case called INS versus Chata, decided in 1983, had to do with what we call the legislative veto.

And the legislative veto's provision that is, at the time that the case was decided, was in hundreds of statutes that Congress passed.

And Congress would essentially in these statutes say, we're going to give power over to the executive branch or to an administrative agency.

And in this case, it was the immigration officials working in under the attorney general.

And in this case involving Chata, what the Congress said was we will let the immigration judge suspend the deportation of an illegal alien.

But we want the power to veto that decision.

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