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To: Alberta's Child
It's hard to accuse a president of abusing his office when he issues executive orders to delay the implementation of a Federal law that never should have been passed in the first place.

The authority of executive orders does not trump the authority of federal law duly passed by Congress and signed by the President. As you are well aware, the President has no right to an opinion of the law with regards to its enactment nor does he have any other option but to enforce it as written. Also, as I'm sure that you know, it was codified in the body of the law that only Congress has the authority to change any aspect of the law, not the President. The degree to which he can arrogate to himself this phantom authority with no reaction from Congress is the degree that his actions threaten the principle of the rule of law in this country. Jonathan Turley is right. Remember, this country is still a Great Experiment in democracy and this a$$clown is trying to make it a failed one.

39 posted on 03/07/2014 5:11:27 AM PST by Tonytitan
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To: Tonytitan

This “Great Experiment” probably failed around the 1930s. How you can sit there with a straight face and suggest that there’s anything sacred about millions of pages of Federal statutes that even lawyers and Federal judges can’t even understand clearly is beyond me.


63 posted on 03/09/2014 1:52:03 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("I've never seen such a conclave of minstrels in my life.")
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