Executive Overreach

National Review ^ | 6/15/12 | John Yoo

[SoFloFreeper]

President Obama’s claim that he can refuse to deport 800,000 aliens here in the country illegally illustrates the unprecedented stretching of the Constitution and the rule of law. He is laying claim to presidential power that goes even beyond that claimed by the Bush administration, in which I served. There is a world of difference in refusing to enforce laws that violate the Constitution (Bush) and refusing to enforce laws because of disagreements over policy (Obama).

[SoFloFreeper]

Vote against Obamugabe. Our Republic depends on you.

[mandaladon]

Zero has reduced himself to using children as a shield in defense of his economic failures.

[pointsal]

Impeach Now !!!!

[Former Proud Canadian]

I am reminded of how Obama et. al. ignored the bankruptcy laws vis a vis GM and Chrysler. After they got away with that, anything is possible.

[liberalh8ter]

He uses women as shields, too. Muslims are quite comfortable with doing that.

[Sir Napsalot]

UNFIT.

Period.

The we-told-you-so seemed so inadequate.

[353FMG]

Huh? With the numbnuts we have in Congress?

[Revolting cat!]

Who’s gonna stop ‘im? Is it the Constitution’s fault that he can ignore it? An honest question. Is there a flaw or flaws in our constitution that rascals like Bubba and Osambo can get awy with High Crimes and Misdemeanors? I tend to think that we’re lacking some, let’s call them, automatic mechanisms that would stop such abuses. This guy IS a Mugabe!

[MrLee]

We can’t depend on our armed services to defend the Republic either. Doomed...

[2ndDivisionVet]

He’s the best spokesman for Mitt Romney that was ever born!

[Conscience of a Conservative]

The second exception is prosecutorial discretion, which is the idea that because of limited resources the executive cannot pursue every violation of federal law. The Justice Department must choose priorities and prosecute cases that are the most important, have the greatest impact, deter the most, and so on. But prosecutorial discretion is not being used in good faith here: A president cannot claim discretion honestly to say that he will not enforce an entire law — especially where, as here, the executive branch is enforcing the rest of immigration law.

Obama has framed this move as an exercise of prosecutorial discretion, which is why he's going to get away with this. Although Yoo is right here, Obama (and his defenders) would simply say that Obama is not refusing to "enforce an entire law", but rather is just refusing to enforce the law against a particular type of offender. It's a BS argument, but likely enough to stop any judge from doing anything about this.

[2ndDivisionVet]

What Good Can a Handgun Do Against An Army?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/2312894/posts

[publius911]

Hey Odumbo...

You don't have a choice!
Enforce the legally adopted immigration laws....

Or repeal them!

We still have not adopted a dictatorship

Where is our Congress in all this?
AWOL?????

[HHawk86]

I wonder how long it’s going to take the conservative blowhards to realize that 800,000 is just the tip of the ice berg.

Those 800,000 illegals have family members and Obama just created another version of anchor babies - just older.

Ha ha ha.

Looks like the dumbocrats just suckers a few million new voters.

Congress is too pathetic to do anything. Just watch, your country is going down the drain.

Ha ha ha

[InvisibleChurch]

Impeach? But what if he says "no"?

[InvisibleChurch]

Impeach? But what if he says "no"?

[sweetiepiezer]

Where does our dictator leader get his numbers.

http://immigrationcounters.com/

[thecodont]

Thank you Professor Yoo. God bless and protect you.

[ronnie raygun]

Just look at what we have because we were not paying attention! Double up your efforts we lost a lot of ground