Posted on 12/11/2014 7:39:38 AM PST by WhiskeyX
Stop President Obama’s Illegal Immigration Action in Court
President Obama broke the law. He violated the Constitution.
Now we’re taking aggressive action in court.
President Obama said he “change[d] the law” when he took unilateral action on immigration.
The Constitution is clear: The President enforces the law. He does not make the law.
Twenty states are taking a stand to defend the Constitution against President Obama’s imperial immigration action. They’ve filed a massive federal lawsuit to stop his unconstitutional overreach.
We’re joining them. We’re preparing to file a critical amicus brief to stop President Obama’s illegal action.
We testified before Congress. Now we’re telling a federal court: President Obama’s actions not only violated the law, they violated the Constitution.
We’re engaged on all fronts. We’re leading this fight.
Take action with us. Sign our brief today.
Committee to Stand with States Challenging Unconstitutional Immigration Action
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There is a mechanism for dealing with rogue criminals in office. It’s called “impeachment”.
If they can’t impeach this bastard Obama, they can’t impeach anyone.
Listen to the audio link at the top of the web page.
Since the immigration executive order is illegal should we not also hold those who are funding this illegal order as accomplices? Put them all in jail.
“Since the immigration executive order is illegal should we not also hold those who are funding this illegal order as accomplices?”
The legislators enjoy Constitutional immunity while performing their duties as a legislator however improperly.
If they can’t impeach this bastard Obama, they can’t impeach anyone
Its the one loophole (flaw?) in the Constitution. It takes 2/3rds of the Senate to convict. This is a number that is for the most part never reachable. Obama and his Marxist Muslims know this and are betting on it for their success. So far they have been correct. What the next two years will bring may be the total dissolution of that once magnificent document.
JMHO but I think the House should vote the articles of impeachment out over and over, send them to the Senate and clog them up with the trials until the damn bursts. Get the witnesses up there. Hear the testimony. Vote! Wash, rinse, repeat until the democrat dandruff is sent swirling down the political drain. NYT be damned.
While the founding fathers included a method for removal, you can be sure they were aware of the tried and true and totally effective means to remove an offending office holder.
They just decided it was the best course to leave it out. Since everybody knew, it was not necessary to blatantly point it out.
Wouldn’t it be wiser to start a campaign for raising money to erect border fencing that is impenetrable?
Totally agree with you. FORCE an impeachment vote on this s.o.b. he is INFINITELY worse than Clinton.
There is no such thing as an impenetrable fence. The best means of severely curtailing illegal immigration is to make it so unprofitable the illegal immigrants will choose to leave the United States forever. Tax illegal immigrants into such unimaginable poverty anything else outside of the United States will appear to be preferable any day of the week. Also end the provision of U.S. citizenship for illegal alien immigrants by birth, naturalization, and amnesty. In other words, remove all of the incentives for illegal immigration.
The only way close border is enforce evirify with increased fines and punish visa overstayers.
“While the founding fathers included a method for removal, you can be sure they were aware of the tried and true and totally effective means to remove an offending office holder.”
One of the key methods for the removal of U.S. Senators was the power of state legislatures to elect and remove a U.S. Senator. This check and balance against the 6 year term of a U.S. Senator was removed by a later Constitutional Amendment that took away the power of the state legislature and gave the power of election to a popular vote with no means of removing or recalling a U.S. Senator without a nearly impossible to achieve impeachment vote by the Congress only. So, the checks and balances provided by the Founding Fathers has been removed to the detriment of the Citizen voters.
Another approach to be used in the warm up to a presidential impeachment would be impeachments of Congressmen and Senators who are liable for impeachment due to breaches of their oath of office to protect and defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic. Of course, these legislators view this approach with the horror of a metaphorical nuclear option in the legislative proceedings. They fear the opening of a virtual Pandora’s box of retribution in future legislative proceedings.
Federal legislators cannot be impeached, but they can be expelled by a two-thirds vote of the chamber of which they reside.
“Federal legislators cannot be impeached, but they can be expelled by a two-thirds vote of the chamber of which they reside.”
Parliamentary law includes a class of motion to impeach to remove members. Each house of Congress exercises the right to expel a member of that house, which is effectively an impeachment in parliamentary law regardless of whether or not the motion carries the name of impeachment.
The House of Representatives actually impeached a Federal legislator before, establishing a precedent, when they impeached Senator Blount on 8 September 1797. The Senate attempted to hold a trial of Senator Blount after his senate seat was already sequestered, effectively expelling him from the Senate, but Blount fled his prosecution. Years later the Senate voted in a hotly contested dispute to dismiss the impeachment for lack of jurisdiction while arguing a Senator was not subject to impeachment under the Constitution. Nonetheless, the precedent of an impeachment of a Member of Congress remains with the interpretation of the Constitution’s meaning of “civil officers” still in dispute.
See:
SENATE HISTORY February 5, 1798 To Arrest an Impeached Senator
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