Personally, ‘take care’ is not to be taken by itself. It goes on to say “to faithfully execute”.
“Take Care” without “faithfully” means nothing.
Here the Scotus has focused, so they say, on ‘take care’.
I’ve no doubt we’ll have logical handsprings that would embarrass even the sophists before this is over. They end up saying it’s in the mind of the beholder, and Obama is the relevant beholder.
I think there are old cases dealing with the issue. Prez enforce not make laws.
There have been a lot of 9-0 decisions by this Supreme Court slapping the Obama Administration down for executive overreach.
Iirc the Court has actually been escalating it’s language in telling Obama to knock it off. And again we’re talking 9-0 decisions here.
As ideologically divided as the Court is, the one thing the Justices are really unified on is the Judiciary’s perogative in interpreting Constitution and statute. The stupid little political games the Obama Admin played with the 5th Circuit will not have gone unnoticed. So I’m hopeful with this one.
SCOTUS has been known to reach beyond the issue handed to it. Not often, but not unheard of. These “American citizens of illegal aliens” may be found to not be citizens at all, in addition to ruling on the take care clause.
It opens with (basically), the Court makes opinionated determinations (in part) based on previous opinions and not Law
I copied it out and is in my library (bathroom) for study later today