Posted on 01/27/2015 6:48:36 PM PST by george76
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced Monday that both Nevada and Tennessee have joined the Lone Star state's challenge of President Obama's executive amnesty, bringing the total number of states fighting Obama's unilateral immigration policies to 26.
“Texas is proud to lead a coalition that now includes a majority of the United States standing up against the President’s rogue actions,” Attorney General Ken Paxton said in a statement. “The momentum against the President's lawlessness continues to build with Tennessee and Nevada joining the effort to protect our states from the economic and public safety implications of illegal amnesty. As President Obama himself has said numerous times, he lacks the authority to impose amnesty. His actions represent a blatant case of overreach and clear abuse of power.”
U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen already heard oral arguments in the case January 15th, where Texas argued that Obama's amnesty would create a new wave of illegal immigration that would burden state governments. “This is the second time they’ve done it in two years,” Texas attorney Andrew Oldham told Hanen. “People think: They’ve done it twice in two years. Maybe they’ll do it again in 2016.”
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the full list of 26 states suing Obama over his executive amnesty are: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Michigan, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, West Virginia, Wisconsin.
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26 states...any Democrat run states? I bet not...
Only 31 states to go. ;-)
31 to go
Beat me you sicko
ROFLMAO!!! One and only time ... will put this in my notes scrapbook. ;-)
They should forget it , don’t they know Obama Won , LOL
How will these lawsuits affect John Boehner healthcare stocks he owns....
http://www.wnd.com/2015/01/boehner-profits-from-obamacare-stocks/
House Speaker John Boehner Threatens Second Lawsuit Against Obama on Immigration
Jan 27, 2015, 12:37 PM ET
By JEFF ZELENY and JOHN PARKINSON
I think they are sending an unsubtle message to the SCOTUS that if just 8 more states join them, they could theoretically call a constitutional convention over the issue. While they likely wouldn’t do so, it sends the SCOTUS a strong signal that they must prevent this nonsense, and rein-in Obama in a firm manner.
Since 1810, with the Marbury v. Madison decision, the POTUS has been free from carrying out a law he doesn’t want to. However, the flip side of this is the authority of the court to stop the POTUS from doing what he wants to do on his own.
That is, they can’t make him follow the law. But they can force him to not break the law.
It seems to me that if there are 26 states opposed to Obama’s illegal unconstitutional amnesty program it shouldn’t be to hard to get some more states on board for a Convention of the States to amend the Constitution and try to put an end to US Government interference, growth and tyranny over the people of the United States of America.
need 12 more.
38 states can do anything in this country.
throw President out, dissolve congress, even eliminate supreme court.
the ultimate power in this country rests with the states, but need enough of them to send DC into oblivion
Hey Obie!
How many of the ‘57’ states are screaming ‘Sez You!’, now???
Beat me to it - my slant was going to be “almost halfway there”.
The operative words being 'sane' and 'origins'.
The judiciary has become as much an enemy of our Constitution as the odious enemedia and their execrable halfbreed lawn jockey.
Good question.
An equally important question would be, "Any Republican run states still not participating? I hope not."
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