Supreme Court appears deadlocked over Obama's immigration plan

The L.A. Times reports:

The Supreme Court appeared deadlocked Monday over President Obama's plan to offer work permits to as many as 4 million immigrants living in the U.S. illegally.

A 4-4- tie vote -- possible since the death of Justice Antonin Scalia -- would be a defeat for Obama since it would leave in place a lower court's ruling to block his program and make it almost impossible to implement before he leaves office.

In 2014, the administration announced a sweeping immigration program, saying it wanted to focus deportation efforts on immigrants in the country illegally who are drug traffickers, smugglers, gang members or have links to terrorists.

The executive action would have extended relief to more than 4 million immigrants who were parents of U.S. citizens or lawful permanent residents.

It's early to jump to conclusions.