Obama immigration order: Does ‘audacity of hope’ mean unchecked presidential power?

President Obama’s order deferring deportation of up to 800,000 young illegal immigrants shows a president dealing with a recalcitrant Congress by ignoring it. Is he reshaping the power of the presidency?

Patrik Jonsson The Christian Science Monitor 6/16/2012

Faced with a Republican Congress that seems stubborn to a fault and content to see Obama fail, […]

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