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“What the legislature is trying to do is head off this collision or clash that we’ve seen of ICE agents or Border Patrol agents coming into the court, disrupting court relations, and grabbing individuals who were there to testify,” said Chicago-Kent College of Law Professor Harold Krent. “This obviously is undermining the sanctity of Illinois’ justice system.”

“(Attorneys are) thinking, ‘What’s the likelihood they’re going to affirm the decision or they’re going to reverse the decision?'” said Richard Kling, clinical professor at the Chicago-Kent College of Law. “Obviously they thought it was in their advantage to dismiss it.”

“Even the lower courts that have ruled against the president believe that the president is entitled to a fair amount of deference. I don’t think that’s a controversial view. But the (federal) government is taking the position that the president’s decisions in this are completely unreviewable,” said Carolyn Shapiro, founder and co-director of the Chicago-Kent College of Law’s Institute on the Supreme Court of the United States. “I think that’s completely wrong, and it seems unlikely to me that there are five votes for that position, because if there were, they would have already granted a stay.”