“Gov. McAuliffe is entitled to disagree with the policies of the Virginia Constitution, but he is not entitled to nullify those he dislikes,” attorneys for GOP House Speaker William Howell, Senate Majority Leader Thomas Norment and other voters write in their lawsuit.
Excellent point, legally speaking.
But McAuliffe is a good Democrat, and sees what his big boss, Obama, does at the federal level. So he is inspired to do the same at the state level, to just issue an executive order, whether he has legal authority to do so or not. And then dare the courts to try and stop him.
Obama is setting a standard for Democrats all the way down the line, in any public office, to act lawlessly, if doing so results in advancing some liberal agenda.
Obummer has made it legal that if you do not like a law you can ignore it. Law enforcement has a counter function. If you believe stealing Swisher Sweets is OK and the law say otherwise, you are not free to continue to do what you want in the eyes of the law. Your job is to change the law to make stealing Swisher Sweets legal. (However, if Swisher Sweets disappear from the marketplace, as, they are not profitable and there are none to steal, that is your problem.)
MacAwful believes he can act illegally, since, he believes he will be pardoned by Odingo, or, not prosecuted.