Supreme Court kills Obama immigration policy

[Jim Lane]

5. This is apparently an interim decision that didn't kill the policy.

This passage in the linked article leads me to believe that what was at issue was an appeal concerning a preliminary injunction:

Thursday's tie vote does not strike down the Obama proposal. In bringing the case to the Supreme Court, the government sought authority to begin enforcing the policy while the lawsuit brought by the states works its way through the lower courts.

That process will play out for at least another year, and the next president would decide whether to continue defending it in court. Presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton has vowed to expand the program, but her GOP rival Donald Trump has said he would abandon it.

It's a frequent situation that a case takes a long time to work its way through the courts, and the issue is what happens during that time. I'm guessing that this decision means only that the Obama administration policy is put on hold until the litigation is fully concluded.