His thinking?
I imagine he thinks that he’s losing the senate anyway, and the House is already in Rino hands, and he’ll not be convicted for exercising a constitutional power. It can hardly be a ‘high crime or misdemeanor’ to exercise authority granted you by the constitution.
So, he’s a ‘lame duck’ for 2 more years. He’ll play golf and simply not care. Vetoing a bill takes a minute, and it’s extremely hard to override.
The media will turn the final 18 months in a 24/7 dialogue about the candidates running in primaries, and it will pass out of the news cycle, and that will be the end of it.
America will not rise up.
America will scale down from Applebees to Arbys and continue in their fog.
I have thought about this issue and it is true that Obama has the power to grant pardons and reprieves, but his power is limited to pardoning and granting reprieves for crimes against the United States. He could stop the prosecution of illegal aliens for entering into the United States and even for breaking such laws as working without a green card or even for using false identification.
However, he does not have the power to grant anyone the right to continue to break the law after amnesty is granted, nor does he have the power or authority to change the status of an illegal alien to a legal resident. He can pardon people for breaking the law, but he can’t unilaterally change the law.
In other words, all he can do is stop the criminal proceedings. He can’t stop the civil proceedings such as deportations based on status defined as unlawful under current law.
So if he grants a blanket amnesty, that will really have no effect on the status of illegal aliens other than to prohibit them from being prosecuted for specific criminal violations done before the amnesty.