“Obeying, or enforcing, a bad law is every bit as bad as having written it. IMHO.”
So when we had people in the squadron who claimed GW Bush wasn’t legally the President and they did not need to deploy, should we have let them?
If Barack Obama doesn’t like immigration law, should he be allowed to “interpret” it his way?
Where does it end?
Good questions.
Personally, I would not even WANT to deploy with someone who didn’t think the CIC, our CIC was legal.
The application and enforcement of immigration lay by the POTUS is part of a LONG tradition of presidents ignoring congress and SCOTUS (Andrew Jackson “the chief Justice has made his ruling, now let him enforce it”, the bad precedent set by ‘signing statements’); don’t like it, but this current President is hardly the first to ignore anyone they choose.