Where do you go with an essay that starts like this?
A few short months ago even Obama himself was declaring the unlawful nature of what he did Thursday.
The writer is really, really dense.
Bottom line is: the dude took precisely the action he could have taken six years ago, and wants applause for it.
/johnny
If they play it right, it’s nothing remotely resembling an “triumph.” The only immigration-related legislation that should flow from Congress from this day forward should ONLY be that which enforces law and secures the border. The amnesty component has been reached. Nothing more.
What a load of BS.
The precedent will be useful if/when a Republican takes the presidency. There are quite a few pernicious laws that can simply be unenforced.
They're the new go-to guys for liberals?
”… Immigration law, unlike other kinds of law, is explicitly designed by Congress to delegate authority to the president."
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument
With all due respect to mom & pop, since generations of parents have not been making sure that their children are being taught about the federal government’s constitutionally limited powers, institutionally indoctrinated constitutional “experts" unsurprisingly don’t understand that the states have never delegated to Congress, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to regulate immigration.
More specifically, after doing some scratching, regardless that PC interpretations of the Constitution’s Uniform Rule of Naturalization clause, Clause 4 of Section 8 of Article I, now wrongly blurr distinctions between immigration and naturalization, please consider the following.
Not only did Thomas Jefferson write that the states have never delegated to feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to regulate immigration, immigration a 10th Amendment-protected state power issue, but James Madison, regarded as the Father of the Constitution, had essentially written the same thing.
As mentioned in related threads, here again is the relevant exerpt from Jefferson’s writing.
“4. _Resolved_, That alien friends are under the jurisdiction and protection of the laws of the State wherein they are: that no power over them has been delegated to the United States, nor prohibited to the individual States, distinct from their power over citizens. And it being true as a general principle, and one of the amendments to the Constitution having also declared, that “the powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people,” the act of the Congress of the United States, passed on the — day of July, 1798, intituled “An Act concerning aliens,” which assumes powers over alien friends, not delegated by the Constitution, is not law, but is altogether void, and of no force [emphasis added].” —Thomas Jefferson, Draft of the Kentucky Resolutions - October 1798.
And here is the related excerpt from the writings of James Madison in Virginia Resolutions.
"That the General Assembly doth particularly protest against the palpable and alarming infractions of the Constitution, in the two late cases of the "Alien and Sedition Acts" passed at the last session of Congress; the first of which exercises a power no where delegated to the federal government, ...…
… the General Assembly doth solemenly appeal to the like dispositions of the other states, in confidence that they will concur with this commonwealth in declaring, as it does hereby declare, that the acts aforesaid, are unconstitutional; and that the necessary and proper measures will be taken by each, for co-operating with this state, in maintaining the Authorities, Rights, and Liberties, referred to the States respectively, or to the people [emphasis added]. ”— James Madison, Draft of the Virginia Resolutions - December 1798.
So while the idea that Obama cannot pardon illegal immigrants without the legislative support of Congress is at least conceptually correct, it must be noted that Congress still cannot legislatively address any aspect of intrastate immigration without the required consent of the Constitution’s Article V 3/4 state majority via an immigration amendment to the Constitution imo.
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I expect the powers to be to continue to emphasize the PC interpretations of various constitutional clauses to justify federal immigration policy because it remains that the 10th Amendment is probably the best kept secret in DC.
The bottom line is that constitutionally ignorant citizens deserve unconstitutionally big federal government imo.
If this was legal, then anything is legal.
The headline is premature.
We have not even seen any EOs yet.
This could be another Kenyan Klown head fake.
If not, it is still illegal, as the cessation of deportation is illegal.
The Kenyan Klown is going to own this debacle, not the GOP.
There needs to be a political convention, to found a new party, whose principles should be broadly those of the old Republican Party, though purged of anti-Constitutional accretions.
The effort should begin with a public invitation to all Republicans currently holding office. They should be invited to attend the new party’s convention, provided they have not been involved in any corrupt financial deals with business interests or activist groups, and are certain that no one has any photographs of them in illicit sexual congress with any boys, girls, men, or women.
Let those Republicans who refuse to attend the convention on those terms explain why.
Illegal aliens get deported, they don’t get work permits - which is what Obama decrees they be given. THAT is legislating.
I stopped believing such crap.
Everything can be edited to state the opposite.
Look,at the unedited link not some left wing crap.
Here’s the solution:
Turn it around on Obama and the Dems. We need to keep an eye on 2016. Impeachment, government shutdowns, etc. are distractions. Pass popular bills and keep sending them to Obama for a veto. Demand vulnerable Dems vote with you.
Shut Obama down for the next two years. Limit his travel, and WH overhead expense. Don’t fund any of his consultants. Send bill after bill, funding the government minus a few items dear to Obama. Refuse to fund departmental increases. Send last years budget back to him. Reduce NPR, PBS, NEA, etc. budgets by 1%. Americans have been belt tightening why not these orgs? Then do it again and again.
It is now established that Constitution-hating Progressives can do anything they want.
IMHO