Georgia Republicans applaud ruling on Obama immigration order

Georgia Republicans are praising a federal court ruling barring President Barack Obama from carrying out his executive order on immigration. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Tuesday upheld a lower court decision denying the administration’s request to move forward with an executive order the president issued last November temporarily shielding up to 5 million illegal immigrants from deportation. Georgia and 25 other states are challenging the order as an unconstitutional assumption by the…