Posted on 11/20/2015 11:13:17 AM PST by jazusamo
The Justice Department asked the Supreme Court to reinstate President Obama's deportation amnestyFriday, filing papers appealing a federal appeals court's decision blocking the amnesty exactly a year after the program was first announced.
Administration officials hope to get the case on the high court's calendar for this term, which ends in June. Otherwise the case would have to wait to be heard until October 2016, at the earliest, which would mean a decision likely wouldn't come until after Mr. Obama leaves office and a new president has a chance to undo his moves.
Mr. Obama is desperate to try to lock in his policy so his successor will have a tougher time undoing it.
Immigrant-rights advocates cheered the appeal, but said they still want to see more out of Mr. Obama.
"Appealing to defend the expansion of deferred action is the least the Administration can do on immigration," said Marisa Franco, director of the #Not1More Campaign that wants to halt deportations. "The Department of Justice should be investigating the civil rights crisis at DHS that's unfolding with no one watching. ICE's abuses constitute a fire that only the DOJ can put out."
Mr. Obama could have dropped the case and accepted the decision last week from the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which ruled he violated the law. And his decision to appeal didn't sit well with Republicans, who said he had more important priorities to attend to.
"Instead of trying to defend an unconstitutional executive order as he winds down his time in office, the president should work with Congress to secure our borders and improve our immigration laws," said Sen. John Cornyn, Texas Republican.
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ask or order?
Something has to be done to counter this supreme court. It is no longer acceptable to allow them the last word as, thanks to people like Orrin Hatch backslapping the likes of Ted Kennedy, they are no longer an impartial arbiter of the Constitution.
Better that they hear it and then slap him down
Absolutely agree, well said.
Part of me expects CJ Roberts to take this opportunity to again betray the Constitution.
likely another offer they can’t refuse
I have such loathing for that man in the white hut.
Tougher politically maybe, but not legally. It's just an EO. All the new guy needs to undo it is a pen. Doesn't even need a phone.
In fact, I've posted that I think the new guy, whomever it may be, should take a VERY aggressive stance toward BO's EO's. He should state publicly that because it's so well known how badly he abused them, that rather than reviewing them on a case-by-case basis with possible retraction (which gives BO the presumption of validity), that they'd be undone in masse, with a review in case a few were VALID, then they'd be reinstated. That would cause explosions of liberal heads throughout the land, and would actually be better for the public, so it's not just symbolic.
I don't think the court is into...."Sure...you're breaking the law....you've said it yourself"...and two courts have told you so.
They won't hear it.
Your optimism is admirable but unwarranted.
And with the papers were pictures, copies of emails, transcribed telephone conversations, etc.
I give it a week before SCOTUS gives Obumagabe anything he wants.
That would a great thing to see, all those lib heads exploding.
Only downside would be if it works like zombies, and if it gets on you, you become one. Maybe if we all stocked up on bleach first.
/johnny
You have to ask yourself how many hundreds of thousands of people Obama has gotten killed and butchered and he keeps on expanding his killing fields.
The democrat party has become the party of death death in the abortion industry that profits handsomely from butchering whole babies, death panels in butcher care (aka Obamacare), death in the Middle East where his policies have gotten hundreds of thousands if not millions of people killed, hacked to death, drownd, and butchered.
The Nazi party has reincarnated into the democrat party.
Cruz for SC, serious
"Power always thinks it has a great soul, and vast views, beyond the comprehension of the weak; and that it is doing God service, when it is violating all His laws. - John Adams letter to Thomas Jefferson, Feb. 2, 1816The semantics of the current President and "progressivss" define the Constitution's limitations on their power differently than did the Founders and Framers of America's Constitution, which, by its own provisions, limited government and the coercive power which future elected individuals might wish to wield.
From Page xv of "Our Ageless Constitution," here are excerpted words from President Andrew Jackson's Proclamation of December 10, 1832:
"We have received it [the Constitution] as the work of the assembled wisdom of the nation. We have trusted to it as to the sheet anchor of our safety in the stormy times of conflict with a foreign or domestic foe. We have looked to it with sacred awe as the palladium of our liberties, and with all the solemnities of religion have pledged to each other our lives and fortunes here and our hopes of happiness hereafter in its defense and support. Were we mistaken, my countrymen, in attaching this importance to the Constitution . . .? No. We were not mistaken. The letter of this great instrument is free from this radical fault. . . . No, we did not err! . . . The sages . . . have given us a practical and, as they hoped, a permanent* Constitutional compact. . . . The Constitution is still the object of our reverence, the bond of our Union, our defense in danger, the source of our prosperity in peace: it shall descend, as we have received it, uncorrupted by sophistical construction, to our posterity. . . ."
*Underlining added for emphasis
And, it was Thomas Jefferson who used another metaphor with reference to the Constitution when he indicated that "the People" must "bind them (government) by the chains of the Constitution." In another instance, he declared: "It was intended to lace them up straitly within the enumerated powers. . . ."
The only path to making America "great again" begins and ends with understanding of, and adherence to, the ideas and principles underlying the Constitution of the United States of America, as they were explained in the 85 essays of THE FEDERALIST, newspaper essays addressed directly to "the People" in the States prior to their ratification of that Constitution by the people in the states.-------------------------
"On every question of construction, let us carry ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit manifested in the debates, and instead of trying what meaning may be squeezed out of the text, or invented against it, conform to the probable one in which it was passed."
— Thomas Jefferson, letter to William Johnson, June 12, 1823, The Complete Jefferson, p. 322.
"Our peculiar security is in the possession of a written Constitution. Let us not make it a blank paper by construction." Thomas Jefferson to W, Nicholas, 1803.
In his own 1801 Inaugural Address, after listing what he called the "essential principles" to guide his Administration, Jefferson added:
"These principles form the bright constellation which has gone before us and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation. The wisdom of our sages and blood of our heroes have been devoted to their attainment. They should be the creed of our political faith, the text of civic instruction, the touchstone by which to try the services of those we trust; and should we wander from them in moments of error or of alarm, let us hasten to retrace our steps and to regain the road which alone leads to peace, liberty, and safety." - Thomas Jefferson, First Inaugural, 1801
We might contrast Jefferson's understanding with today's Democrat Party "progressive" policies which, in effect, would undo all the monumental work accomplished by the Founders on behalf of liberty and leave the law afloat and without anchor, relying, as of old, on mere men and women.
I believe it is on a single basis, I’ve read that it’s not for the millions enmasse.
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