Posted on 04/24/2013 1:58:37 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Big Sis: Obama Admin Can Pick Which Laws to Enforce
by Matthew Boyle 24 Apr 2013, 11:10 AM PDT
During her testimony on the Gang of Eight immigration bill before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano declared that she, President Barack Obama and other political officials at the top of this administration have the authority to decide which laws to enforce, and which ones to ignore.
Napolitano made the declaration in an exchange with Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) when he was questioning her on how Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents have alleged that political officials in the Obama administration, including her, have blocked them from enforcing the law.
Sessions noted that ICE agents union president Chris Crane had testified on Monday that agents are prohibited from enforcing the law and, indeed, the ICE officers have filed a lawsuit [to that effect].
I started out as a federal prosecutor in the Department of Justice in 1975, Sessions said. I have never heard of a situation in which a group of law officers sued their supervisor and you for blocking them from following the law. They werent complaining about pay, benefits, working conditions. They were saying their very oath they took, to enforce the law, is being blocked by rules and regulations and policies established from on high and that this is undermining their ability to do what theyre sworn to do.
In her response to those remarks from Sessions, Napolitano said she believes she and other political officials have the authority to tell law enforcement agents which laws to enforce and which ones to ignore.
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Article VI, the Supremacy Clause of the Constitution:
“This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States
which shall be made in Pursuance thereof,
and all Treaties made, or which shall be made,
under the Authority of the United States,
shall be the supreme Law of the Land; . . .
So far any amnesty I see will legalize 12-30 million illegal aliens while new provisions for enforcing the borders and visas will never be implemented. Janet Napolitano has just admitted this. Only idiots believe the Obama regime will enforce any new immigration laws that come with a Marco Rubio type amnesty
“Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano declared that she, President Barack Obama and other political officials at the top of this administration have the authority to decide which laws to enforce, and which ones to ignore. “
Sub-Driver, do you think people understand how utterly terrifying those words are?? Mike Chertoff felt the same way, but at least the Bush Administration had the good sense to lie about it!
PS. THEY WILL FEEL THE SAME WAY AFTER AMNESTY!! WAKE UP AMERICA, THIS IS OUR LAST CHANCE.
Hey Janet, may I decide which laws to abide by and which laws I can break, and expect to NOT be held accountable when I’m caught??? Dumb@ss, ignorant, moronic, imbecilic, lawbreaking Biotch!
Agreed, they have taken an oath to uphold the law.
The only time they have the right to decide to ignore a law is
Thats not what the Democrats thought back when Nixon was impounding funds in 1972 an effort to reduce government spending. They wanted to impeach him then for failing to spend money as passed in the federal budget.
“Why havent these communists been dragged out of the White House and put on trail? “
Because the ‘opposition’, the power of the GOP (especially those writting S744 (AMNESTY), FEELS THE SAME WAY!!!!!!
I know no one wants to believe it, but there it is!
If there is a petition demanding her removal, I will rush to sign it.
THEY can pick and choose which law(s) to enforce.
Can I pick and choose which office I want my paid taxes to go to, too?
Could there be a check box on my tax form, No funding EPA, Education, etc etc?
“! Impeach the corrupt bitch! Napolitano, too.”
When’s the last time you heard anyone of any power person in the GOP object to the way OBAMA/Uncle Janet enforces/doesn’t enforce our laws???
It takes an oppostion party to pull of an impeachment.
WE DON’T HAVE ONE!
Sessions should have shot back “care to tell me where you found that in the Constitution?” When she couldn’t he should have said further “You’re an embarrassment to public officials everywhere, You need to resign here and now.”
Why does Marco Rubio not understand this?
1.
the offense of acting to overthrow one's government or to harm or kill its sovereign.
2.
a violation of allegiance to one's sovereign or to one's state.
3.
the betrayal of a trust or confidence; breach of faith; treachery.
I would say she's done at least 2 of those - and not in the pot........
I don’t even know what to say anymore.
Destroyed from within. Large segments of American society
unaware,coarsened and completely unable to understand what
made this country great and why its all slipping away.
king
Guess what, fugly bitch.
So can the next Republican in office.
OOPS on all your gun control.
Janet Gestapolano living up to her name.
Wonder when Bozo Boehner and Meaningless McConnell will issue a statement of condemnation on this and demand resignation?
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