Posted on 02/17/2015 5:18:01 PM PST by cotton1706
Rather than making the funding fight moot, conservatives argue, the ruling shows why Congress can’t let Obama’s policies stand.
A Texas judge’s rejection of President Barack Obama’s immigration actions has strengthened conservatives’ resolve to use the Department of Homeland Security funding bill to oppose his moves — potentially complicating efforts for a quick end to the partisan standoff just 10 days before the clock runs out.
Rather than defusing the conflict on Capitol Hill by making it moot, conservative lawmakers and senior aides said Tuesday, the ruling by U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen makes it even clearer that Congress cannot allow Obama’s actions to stand. “The president has acted unconstitutionally, and it is the president — not Congress — who must back down,” said Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), an immigration hard-liner.
Instead, Republicans said, it’s the Senate Democrats who need to give in by allowing a vote on a House-passed DHS bill that would block the president’s efforts to protect millions of undocumented immigrants from deportation.
“This court ruling certainly does provide us with an important, I think, a helpful argument to fund everything but what a federal district court has ruled as unlawful or unconstitutional,” Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson, a vulnerable Republican and chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, said in a telephone interview Tuesday. “We all want to keep this nation safe and secure, so let’s do that. Let’s not fund what’s in dispute.”
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Time for democrats to bend for once!
(I'll wait to hold my breath, though)
Period.
Full stop.
End of story.
Support Boehner, call his office and call your Congressman’s office....support and continue to push these elected to do the right thing. Thank them when they do well!!!
I believe Obama is still going ahead behind closed doors.
He is 100% evil
100% traitor
I was planning on making some phone calls. Are they even there this week? Congressmen are always on vacation.
I imagine that he’ll change the order in some meaningless way, e.g. modify the font from Calibri to Arial, and resubmit it. Either that, or shop for a more sympathetic court.
Possibly both.
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