Posted on 12/16/2014 5:39:41 PM PST by bestintxas
The administration warned a federal judge Monday to stay out of the debate over President Obama’s deportation amnesty, saying decisions about whom to deport fall squarely within the executive’s job description, “which this court lacks authority to review. In its first extended legal filing in one of the court challenges to the new amnesty, the Justice Department says courts have long held that an agency’s decision whether or not to prosecute someone or to enforce the law is entitled to “absolute discretion.”“Federal courts sit to decide cases and controversies, not to resolve disagreements about policy or politics,” said Joyce R. Branda, the acting assistant attorney general who took the lead on filing the brief.
Ms. Branda said the administration had to impose the new deportation amnesty because immigration enforcement has become too costly in recent years, outpacing the amount of money Congress provides, so picking and choosing which illegal immigrants to deport is the best use of taxpayers’ money.
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i am so sick of obamass.
Check Abbot’s suit on behalf of Texas. He has it covered no matter what the administration calls it. Genius that Abbot.
This is a big deal. The courts have no ability to enforce their decisions except for the belief in rule of law. If the executive decides to ignore the decision of a court and the legislature refuses to challenge the executive then you have to see who has the most guns, obviously the executive.
“Warned” a Federal judge?
As in “or else”?
The Obamunists are pushing America towards a very ugly crisis.
It's breathtaking that they openly take this position.
Who will lock them up for ignoring their sworn responsibilities (breaking the law)?
Amazing. Lawless, dictatorial, out of control, with zero respect for the office, the people, or the Constitution. A craven, whimpering, lickspittle House that will give him anything he demands, a Judicial branch that he may openly defy, and a street mob eager to enact violence on anyone daring to question him. I don’t think we’re at that Awkward Stage anymore.
Eff both Øbama and Ms. Branda!
“The stocking were ‘hanged’ by the chimney with care/”
YEP!
our first black president has purposefully and almost totally destroyed our country....
FYF . . . It damn sure doesn't!
Threatening judges is always a good idea. / sar
Impeachment should be the first order of business come January.
My feelings exactly however my words would have gotten me banned for life.
Emperor 0bungwad has spoken!
How does the decision to exert prosecutorial discretion (which may or may not apply) then get promoted to the affirmative power of spending money to "investigate" illegals and give them identification and permission to stay? That's like allowing cops who often ignore people driving 70 in a 65 zone to instead give speeders special plates which will allow them to drive any speed they want.
I have been hoping for years always disappointed.
While Obama stays stoned and chases ass like a coon hound, the white house is in anarchy mode.
The media won't expose him
and Obama’s debt is destroying the world economy . this marxist cretin has racked up more debt than all the presidents combined.
http://www.gramsgold.com/news/obama-racked-up-more-debt-than-all-presidents-combined
all economies are in a nosedive Russia, Japan, latin America, Europe all heading toward a depression. and it was this jug eared communist named Obama that borrowed so many trillions of dollars to cause this collapse. it's happing look it up ,oil price is in a free fall cause economies are slowing(look at the gas price) .
“The total federal debt of the U.S. government has now increased more than $7 trillion during the six years Barack Obama has been president.
It is more than the debt increased under all U.S. presidents from George Washington through Bill Clinton combined, and it is more debt than was accumulated in the first 227 years of this nation's existence—from 1776 through 2003.
Why aren't we protesting in the streets demanding this thug dictator resign?
Really? America was NOT supposed to be a fascist dictatorship, but that was when we were a constitutional republic. The reality we are facing is somewhere on the national socialist to soviet socialist spectrum, rather than safely within the bounds of the Constitution.
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