Republicans Hand Obama an Immigration Political Triumph

New York Magazine ^ | 11/21/2014 | Jonathan Chait

[aimhigh]

There are no serious legal questions about the administration’s plan, which will temporarily legalize the status of some 4.3 million undocumented immigrants. Even lawyers for the conservative Federalist Society concede Obama’s legal reasoning. The serious questions revolve around political norms. And conservative critics have a point that Obama is stretching norms of political behavior by enacting effective changes in the law solely on his own.

Immigration law, unlike other kinds of law, is explicitly designed by Congress to delegate authority to the president. "The Immigration and Nationality Act and other laws are chock-full of huge grants of statutory authority to the president,” notes Republican lawyer Margaret Stock.

[JRandomFreeper]

http://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/executive-orders

See for yourself where the EOs are listed.

/johnny

[Windflier]

You aren't going to stop him until you can point to an unlawful act.

Well, it shouldn't take long. He fully intends to normalize the illegals, even if he can't make them legal citizens. I don't see how he can accomplish that without forcing his agencies to break the law.

[JRandomFreeper]

He can accomplish that by stampeding republicans into demanding that the House pass legislation that Reid won't kill in the Senate.

The mad stampede needs to stop, and lots of folks here on FR believe there was an EO signed.

/johnny

[Lazamataz]

INTERESTING.

If Obama has signed NO Executive Orders, but just claimed he did or would, that would get around that thorny Constitution thing.

Matt, apparently NO Executive Orders are appearing yet.

[firebrand]

I believe you. I just wonder what’s going on. Maybe no moare paper necessary. We’ve gone preliterate.

[Yaelle]

I hate to plug SNL, but their cold open was a reenactment of Schoolhouse Rock’s “I’m Only A Bill” and it is [deleted] hilarious. The rolled up bill is singing his song and Obama comes on and shoves it down the Capitol steps... Good skit.

[Elsie]

He might be closer to stampeding some people into doing ANYTHING, like passing a law in the House that he likes.

Waiting for Ferguson?

[Elsie]

If I had a son...

 

         

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[ripley]

It is now established that Constitution-hating Progressives can do anything they want.

IMHO

[Elsie]

bump

[lentulusgracchus]

” The writer is really, really dense. “

No, he’s really intense and committed to Obama’s Caesarism.

Remember, only a year ago, the ‘Rats were floating trial-balloon “polls” measuring latent resistance to the idea of “one-party government” (dictatorship). The elections have temporarily quieted that talk — but not the tingling in all their naughty parts.