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.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Or would the Supremes throw the suit out for another "lack of standing"!
"STAND UP, CHUCK!"
(.....now we ALL have no standing, Joe).
Leni
imagine if we could do that for taxes. We don’t need congress to cut taxes. We simply ignore tax collection above 20% essentially giving everyone 20% flat tax
..because Bonehead can't stop crying
Selective enforcement of the law is tyranny. It sets a precedent of selective enforcement of the law on the Administration’s enemies and willful blindness for allies and those who ‘pay to play’. There is a reason that Lady Justice has always been depicted with a blindfold. With the Obammunnists Lady Liberty should be portrayed as a whore with a VIP guest list in her hand.
This is the Venezuelan legal system under the Chavistas and is much the model that Obama seems to be following.
“With the Obammunnists Lady Liberty should be portrayed as a whore with a VIP guest list in her hand.”
That is incredibly profound.
It borders on poetry to be honest. It describes the corruption that now exists to perfection.
Hmm. I wonder why the President’s executive agencies didn’t blow off, or pick and choose which laws to obey or ignore from the git-go in 1789? Why is this only a recent phenomena?
Should be grounds for immediate impeachment for both her AND Obama, but we all know that would never happen
Why is anybody surprised by this? Defense of marriage act? Black Panthers? The EPA? Article 2?
I can’t march on the white hut all by myself...
Don’t Scare me like that.
I almost upchucked my dinner.
LOLOL.
I needed to draw attention to Jim’s post!
Nice post!
And we the people can tell our representatives when to impeach.
Effing tyrants.
B/S! Impeach the corrupt bitch! Napolitano, too.
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HEAR! HEAR!
AMEN!!
Selective enforcement of the law is tyranny. It sets a precedent of selective enforcement of the law on the Administrations enemies and willful blindness for allies and those who pay to play. There is a reason that Lady Justice has always been depicted with a blindfold. With the Obammunnists Lady Liberty should be portrayed as a whore with a VIP guest list in her hand.
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I am quoting you, my FRiend...
Right there, she should be removed from office.
Sigh.
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Give her a little time (and a perjury conviction).
Well, technically, she’s right. It’s up to the Congress to remedy that situation, which they lack the balls to do.
This is simply an open admission that she and her master have declared war on the American people.
The irony is that all of the leftist losers that put these scum into power are going to be under the same iron boot. And they (the left) are too damn stupid to realize that.
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