The MEC didn't seem particularly concerned when he handed down his edict, did he?The most interesting aspect of the legal advice President Barack Obama got on the immigration executive action he announced Thursday night may be what lawyers told the president he could not or should not do.A 33-page Justice Department legal opinion made public just hours before Obama spoke concluded that he doesn't have the legal authority to offer broad deportation relief to parents of so-called Dreamers—people who came to the U.S. illegally as children and won a reprieve from deportation in a program known as DACA that Obama created in 2012."As it has been described to us, the proposed deferred action program for parents of DACA recipients would not be a permissible exercise of enforcement discretion," Justice Department attorney Karl Thompson wrote in the Office of Legal Counsel opinion.The opinion also reveals, in a footnote, that Justice Department lawyers informally raised concerns about Obama's initial 2012 DACA program before it was enacted.
Friday, November 21, 2014
Corrupt as it is, the MEC's own DOJ rendered an objective assessment as to whether he's on solid Constitutional grounds
And he's not:
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Whether you're for it or against it is immaterial. He does not have the power to do this. I am beginning to understand the reality of the low info voters who are with him on this. He appeals to emotion, when you object to his abuse of power, the low info demo thinks you're heartless and cruel.
ReplyDeleteTHE SEARCH FOR JOHN BOEHNER'S BALLS GOES ON
ReplyDeleteBy Charles P. Pierce on November 21, 2014 at http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/So_Sue_Him
When Eric Cantor was asked to leave his place of employment -- that request came from his constituents -- he neglected to pass along the location of the mason jar in which he buried John Boehner's balls back in 2010. Boehner's search now has become one of those National Treasure movies, where you have to find the location of the clues before you can find the location of the treasure. Apparently, he's come to the spot on the map that reads, "Now that the president has acted on immigration, it's time to sue him over the Affordable Care Act."
The filing of the lawsuit, announced one day after Obama unveiled a series of executive actions on immigration, will not address the president's upcoming moves on deportations and immigration enforcement. Boehner's office said it is also considering legal action on immigration, but added that that would require another House vote. "If this president can get away with making his own laws, future presidents will have the ability to as well," the Speaker said in a statement. "The House has an obligation to stand up for the Constitution, and that is exactly why we are pursuing this course of action."
I have lived through the administration of 12 presidents now. If what this president did Thursday night is "making his own laws," then every one of those 12 presidents have "made their own laws." Richard Nixon made his own law about bombing Cambodia and encouraging burglaries. Ronald Reagan made his own law about negotiating with terrorists and financing murderers in Central America. This is neither the time nor the place for an argument about how Congress steadily deeded its own constitutional powers to the Executive over the last 60 years, and how the current Congress pretends now that it only noticed what Congresses had been doing when the country elected the Blah Democrat a couple of times. But Boehner knows They're Out There Somewhere. The president has acted on immigration so we must sue him over health care. It only makes sense if you have the keys to the map.
You're spot on about low-info voters, and Pierce understands Boehner uncomfortably well. It's one of the main points LITD shouts from the rooftops on a regular basis: Far too few Pubs understand the stakes.
ReplyDeleteI have now walked a 1K in your moccasins.
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