Congressional Democrats urge Supreme Court to reinstate amnesty

The Washington Times ^ | December 4, 2015 | Stephen Dinan

[jazusamo]

Congressional Democrats filed an extraordinary brief with the Supreme Court late Thursday urging the justices to overturn a lower court ruling and reinstate President Obama executive amnesty, arguing that the executive branch has a better handle on immigration than Capitol Hill.

Led by House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, the 218 Democrats said Congress intended for Mr. Obama to have sweeping powers to grant proactive stays of deportation, work permits and Social Security numbers to the more than 11 million illegal immigrants estimated to be in the country.

"The patterns of immigration are subject to swiftly changing circumstances, and the executive is better situated to respond promptly to those changes and to redirect resources as necessary," the 218 Democrats said in a brief filed by Ken Salazar, a lawyer who previously served as both a senator and in the executive branch as a member of President Obama's Cabinet.

The Constitution gives Congress powers over immigration in Article I, Section 8, Clause 4, but Congress has given the executive branch some leeway in deciding how to enforce its laws. Democrats are arguing that leeway extends to halting most deportations and carving out millions of illegal immigrants who not only won't be deported, but will be given benefits and privileges that allow them to remain in the U.S. and make a living — albeit it on tentative status.

Mr. Obama announced his amnesty in late 2014, saying he was acting to change the law on his own because Congress had refused to pass the bill he wanted.

[jazusamo]

Dingy Harry and Pelousi doing their best to support Bambam.

[kabar]

So much for checks and balances and the power of the legislative branch. Congress cedes power to a tyrant.

[fwdude]

“Better suited....” Hahahahahahaah!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You can’t make this stuff up.

[alancarp]

Yeah: “it’s okay for the Executive Branch to run rough-shod over the Constitution and the legally-enacted laws if we lose elections and can’t have our way.”

[C210N]

Let me get my trusted copy of today's version of the Constitution... ah, there it is, this is all above board:

Article II, section 2:

The Supreme Court shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Congressional Democrats in the Senate, to make law on matters of Amnesty.

[ObozoMustGo2012]

Canada is looking better and better, even with it’s new liberal president/PM.

[Regulator]

They are going all in to try to get a new majority with imported Mexicans.

The Rat party destroyed itself with abortion and homosexuality. Now they need warm bodies to keep themselves in power.

Boehner of course didn’t see this coming. He thought he could sit back and let the courts do the heavy lifting for him - be the meanies who cancelled the Executive Amnesty.

But as usual he forgot how the rats game the system. This is how: what they can’t get through the legislature, they do through regulations, the judges, and executive orders. They care absolutely nothing about the Legislative system or the will of the people: just win, get your way, no matter what, no matter how.

And a plodding drunk like Boehner didn’t see it coming. And of course, not his wet behind the ears protege little Paulie Ryan.

[rockinqsranch]

".......arguing that the executive branch has a better handle on immigration than Capitol Hill. Led by House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, the 218 Democrats said Congress intended for Mr. Obama to have sweeping powers to grant proactive stays of deportation, work permits and Social Security numbers to the more than 11 million illegal immigrants estimated to be in the country."

Seems to me THAT IS an admission of the Democrat's intent to destroy this country.

[jazusamo]

Harry and Nancy made it so. :)

[jazusamo]

Well said. I’d like to see Ryan get some balls but not gonna hold my breath.

[jazusamo]

Right on, it’s exactly their intentions and they don’t give a whit who knows it.

[A Formerly Proud Canadian]

I’ve got friends who winter in Panama, who are looking into making it permanent. After a socialist win in AB followed by a socialist win in Ottawa, I don’t blame them!

Imagine a country where its leader consults with churches before submitting legislation to its parliament! WOW!

Despite a so far mild winter, I would not mind a trip to Panama. They are less likely to balk at a ‘gringo’ illegal immigrant than a mohamedan illegal, or a Kenyan-Indonesian illegal.

[jazusamo]

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[stylin19a]

RATS are always on offense. How did the Repubs(again and always playing defense) not know of this ?

[Revel]

9 times out of 10 the lawless supreme court will do just what they are asking.

[etcb]

I believe it was in Clinton v City of New York that the Supreme Court held by a 6 to 3 opinion that when congress tried to give the president a line item veto they were improperly trying to transfer a constitutionally granted power from congress to the executive. In effect, a power granted to one branch can’t be transferred to another branch without a constitutional ammendment. It was Justice Anthony Kennedy who wrote that failure of political will does not justify unconstitutional remedies. I don’t know how consistent Justice Kennedy is, but, at least he is on record as being opposed to the argument being presented in this case by the democrats.

[jazusamo]

Thanks, that at least sounds encouraging.

[Sgt_Schultze]

The Rat party destroyed itself with abortion and homosexuality. Now they need warm bodies to keep themselves in power.

Yes they did. But they were forward thinking enough to realize they would soon run out of simpletons, covetous layabouts and idiots, so they commenced to taking over every school system to get ahold of your children's mental development.

[Jacquerie]

From the same Lockean theory that prompted Thomas Jefferson to write of unalienable rights and the consent of the governed, it is clear that free government has been dissolved. Obama and the Uniparty are usurpers in rebellion against civil society.

The pure force that stands in its stead, of what was once legitimate government, is at war with the people. We owe no allegiance to tyranny.

[kabar]

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security. -