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JAKEMAY—THEFLINTJOURNAL-MLIVE.COM Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder fills jugs with filtered Flint, Mich., tap water at Cheryl Hill's house Monday on the city's east side. ByDavidEggert The Associated Press LANSING, MICH. Michi- gan Gov. Rick Snyder will drink Flint water at home and at work for at least a month to show to residents it is safe with the use of a faucet filter, he said Mon- day. The Republican gov- ernor, who has apolo- gized for his adminis- tration's role in the city's lead-tainted water cri- sis, visited a house owned by Cheryl Hill and Todd Canty that was confirmed to have high levels of lead. Snyder, who left with five gallons of filtered water, said he understands peo- ple feel that if officials say the water is OK, then he should drink it, too. "What better way to help show support," said Snyder, who will get re- fills from other homes as needed. Hill and Canty told The Flint Journal that they ap- preciate the governor's visit but still have a lead service line running to their home and don't know if and when it will be re- placed. For nearly 18 months, Flint residents drank and bathed with improperly treated water that had coursed through aging pipes and fixtures, scrap- ing away lead. By the time Snyder announced in Oc- tober that Flint would re- turn to its earlier source of treated water, the Detroit municipal system, dan- gerously high levels of the toxic metal were detected in the blood of some resi- dents, including children, for whom it can cause lower IQs and behavioral problems. On Monday, Snyder again urged residents to drink the water as long as a filter is in place. The U.S. Environmental Pro- tection Agency, however, says bottled water is saf- est for children under age 6 and pregnant or breast- feeding women. Meanwhile, a state wa- ter-quality official who told the city of Flint that a chemical wasn't needed to prevent lead corrosion from pipes has taken a dif- ferent job in the state De- partment of Environmen- tal Quality. Snyder has blamed "ca- reer bureaucrats" in state and federal governments. A task force appointed by Snyder has said the DEQ was the primary culprit because regulators misin- terpreted a federal rule in telling Flint water officials not to treat the Flint River for corrosion until after two six-month monitoring periods. Governor to drink Flint water for at least a month MICHIGAN By Mark Sherman The Associated Press WASHINGTON Conserva- tive Supreme Court justices expressed sharp skepticism about President Barack Obama's immigration ef- forts Monday, leaving his actions to help millions of people who are in the coun- try illegally in the hands of a seemingly divided court. As hundreds of pro-im- migration demonstrators and a smaller number of opponents filled the side- walk outside the court, the justices appeared to split along ideological and par- tisan lines over a case that pits Republican governors and members of Congress against the Democratic ad- ministration. President Barack Obama's administration is asking the justices to al- low it to put in place two programs that could shield roughly 4 million people from deportation and make them eligible to work in the United States. Texas is leading 26 states led by Republicans in chal- lenging the programs that Obama announced in 2014 and that have been put on hold by lower courts. Those states say the administra- tion usurped power that be- longs to Congress, and Jus- tice Anthony Kennedy indi- cated some support for that view. "It's as if ... the president is setting the policy and the Congress is executing it. That's just upside down," Kennedy said. Chief Justice John Rob- erts also aggressively ques- tioned Solicitor General Donald Verrilli Jr., suggest- ing there are few limits to the president's power under the administration's view of immigration law. "Under your argument, could the president grant deferred removal to every ... unlawfully present alien in the United States right now?" Roberts asked. "Definitely not," Verrilli said. But it was not clear Roberts was satisfied with the answer and subsequent explanation. The programs would ap- ply to parents of children who are citizens or are liv- ing in the country legally. Eligibility also would be ex- panded for the president's 2012 effort that applies to people who were brought here illegally as children. More than 700,000 people have taken advantage of that earlier program, De- ferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. The new program for parents, known as De- ferred Action for Parents of Americans, and the ex- panded program for chil- dren could reach as many as 4 million people, accord- ing to the nonpartisan Mi- gration Policy Institute. If the court is split ideo- logically, the case could end in a 4-4 tie following Justice Antonin Scalia's death in February. That would leave the programs in limbo, al- most certainly through the end of Obama's presidency. Both sides acknowledge that the outcome of the presidential election ulti- mately could determine the programs' fates, even if the Supreme Court rules for the administration. Republican candidates have pledged to roll back Obama's actions, and Republican candidate Donald Trump has pro- posed deporting the roughly 11 million people who are living in the U.S. illegally. Several justices re- marked how Congress pro- vides enough money to de- port only about 400,000 people annually. The bulk of immigrants who live in the U.S. illegally "are here whether we want them or not," Justice Sonia Sotomayor said. The high court is ex- pected to decide by late June whether the efforts can move forward in the waning months of Obama's presidency. Roberts and his col- leagues might have an in- centive to avoid a tie vote that would not set a nation- wide precedent and also point to the short-handed court's difficulty in getting its work done. If that's the case, the fate of the pro- grams could hang on a two- word phrase the adminis- tration used to describe the status of immigrants under the programs— lawful pres- ence. Texas and congressio- nal Republicans who back the state say the phrase is important because it gives the immigrants more rights than federal law allows. Republican governors and members of Congress have argued that Obama doesn't have the power to effectively change immi- gration law. When he an- nounced the measures 17 months ago, Obama said he was acting under his own authority because Congress had failed to overhaul the immigration system. The Senate had passed legisla- tion on a bipartisan vote, but House Republicans re- fused to put the matter to a vote. CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY Sp li t hi gh c ou rt n ow h ol ds f at e of Obama immigration actions PABLO MARTINEZ MONSIVAIS — THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Supporters of fair immigration reform hold hands as they leave together a er hearing arguments at the Supreme Court in the case U.S. versus Texas, on Monday in Washington. By Julie Pace and Jonathan Lemire The Associated Press NEW YORK From a car wash in Queens to a hockey arena in Buffalo, both par- ties' presidential candidates spread out across New York Monday in a final quest for votes, a surreal scene for a state that hasn't expe- rienced contested White House primaries in decades. For Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump, victories in New York Tuesday could help quiet critics who have questioned their strength as front-runners. Each has suf- fered losses in recent con- tests that emboldened their rivals, though they still lead in delegate counts and are favored in New York. Clinton, who represented the state as a senator for eight years, spent the fi- nal hours of campaigning trying to drive up turnout among women and minor- ities, her most ardent sup- porters. Since Sunday, she's danced to Latin music at a Brooklyn block party, vowed to defend abortion rights to female supporters in Manhattan, prayed at black church in Westches- ter, drunk a bubble tea at a dumpling shop in Flushing and cheered newly union- ized workers in Queens. "We're not taking any- thing for granted," she said Monday after greeting workers at the Hi-Tek Car Wash & Lube in Queens. Clinton's campaign sees New York as a make-or- break moment for the Dem- ocratic race. A loss in her ad- opted home state would be a devastating political blow. But a big win would bolster her delegate lead over Ver- mont Sen. Bernie Sanders and put her closer to becom- ing the first woman nomi- nated for president by a ma- jor political party. Sanders has rattled off a string of wins in recent pri- maries and caucuses. But unless he can topple Clin- ton in a state like New York, where 247 Democratic del- egates are up for grabs, he faces increasingly limited opportunities to change the trajectory of the race. While polling shows Clin- ton with a comfortable lead in New York, both her cam- paign and Sanders' readied for a closer outcome. "Let's look at the real poll tomorrow," Sanders said on NBC's "Today Show." "Gen- erally speaking, polling has underestimated how we do in elections." For Trump, New York is an opportunity to rebound from a trying stretch for his campaign — and with an ex- clamation point. The biggest question for him heading into Tuesday is whether he captures more than 50 per- cent of the vote statewide, which would put him in strong position to win all of the state's 95 GOP delegates. A big win for Trump is crucial if he hopes to clinch the nomination before the party's convention in July. If the race isn't settled by then, he faces the very real prospect of losing to Ted Cruz, whose campaign is mastering the complicated process of lining up indi- vidual delegates who could shift their support to the Texas senator after the first round of convention ballot- ing. In New Mexico, for exam- ple, well-connected GOP of- ficials say Cruz, as well as Ohio Gov. John Kasich, is already courting would- be delegates in case of an open national convention. Trump's campaign is no- where to be seen, according to Republicans in the state. Trump leads the GOP race with 744 delegates, ahead of Cruz with 545 and Kasich with 144. It takes 1,237 to win the GOP nom- ination. 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