“If I could be a dictator, I would but that damned Constitution keeps getting in the way!”
Since Woodrow Wilson was a young sophomoric Eurotrash wannabe the Progressives have seen the Constitution not as America's bulwark against tyranny but as America's Original Sin, a grand impediment to immanentizing the eschaton. Obama drank deeply from that cup.
“If I could bypass Congress on Immigration, I would do it.”
President (if he IS the President!) Barack Al-Obama already HAS bypassed Congress.