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Dave Jolly Godfather Politics 12/20/2014 …The drafters of the US Constitution purposefully wrote it to keep law making powers out of the hands of the President. Those powers were reserved for Congress who was supposed to do the will of the people, but we know that doesn’t happen anymore either. The drafters of the US […] December 21st, 2014 | Tags: amnesty, executive authority, federal courts, Judge Arthur Schwab, Separation of Powers | Category: Barack Obama, Congress, Founding Fathers, Illegal Immigration, US Constitution | Comments are closed
Jonathan H. Adler The Washington Post 12/16/2014 Earlier Tuesday, a federal court in Pennsylvania declared aspects of President Obama’s executive actions on immigration policy unconstitutional. According to the opinion by Judge Arthur Schwab, the president’s policy goes “beyond prosecutorial discretion” in that it provides a relatively rigid framework for considering applications for deferred action, thus […] December 16th, 2014 | Tags: amnesty, executive authority, Judge Arthur Schwab, Separation of Powers, Take Care Clause | Category: Barack Obama, Illegal Immigration, Pennsylvania, US Constitution | Comments are closed
The president dismantles immigration law that he finds incompatible with his own larger agenda. Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online 11/27/2014 …Obama has downplayed Americans’ worries about social costs and competition for jobs, but studies show illegal immigration has depressed the wages of entry-level American workers while making social services costly for states and burdensome […] November 29th, 2014 | Tags: executive overreach, executive power, precedent, Separation of Powers | Category: Barack Obama, Congress, Illegal Immigration, law enforcement, Politics, Progressives, US Constitution | Comments are closed
Sean Lengell The Washington Examiner 11/26/2014 The nonpartisan Congressional Research Service says Congress has the power to block funding for President Obama’s executive action on immigration, refuting a position taken by the top House appropriator. House Appropriations Committee Chairman Hal Rogers, R-Ky., has argued that Congress can’t block funding to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, […] November 26th, 2014 | Tags: Citizenship and Immigration Services, executive overreach, executive power, Rep. Hal Rogers, Sen. Jeff Sessions, Separation of Powers | Category: Barack Obama, Congress, Department of Justice, Illegal Immigration, US Constitution | Comments are closed
Peter Wehner Commentary Magazine 11/19/2014 The president will present his case on behalf of his forthcoming executive order on amnesty tomorrow at 8 p.m. I certainly hope President Obama addresses the arguments against his action that were repeatedly and passionately made by … President Obama. Our friends at National Review have put together a nice […] November 20th, 2014 | Tags: AFL-CIO, amnesty, checks and balances, Constitutional crisis, deportation, despotism, Executive order, Greta van Susteren, Las Vegas, Megyn Kelly, Prof. Jonathan Turley, protests, Sen. Rand Paul, Sen. Ted Cruz, Separation of Powers, United Farm Workers | Category: Barack Obama, Illegal Immigration, Nevada, Politics, Social networking websites, Tea Parties, Unions, US Constitution | Comments are closed
Noah Rothman Hot Air 11/18/2014 …“As many on this blog are aware, I have previously testified, written, and litigated in opposition to the rise of executive power and the countervailing decline in congressional power in our tripartite system,” Turley wrote on his blog. “I have also spent years encouraging Congress, under both Democratic and Republican […] November 18th, 2014 | Tags: Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), Prof. Jonathan Turley, Separation of Powers | Category: Barack Obama, Congress, US Constitution | Comments are closed
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