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BREAKING: Federal judge finds Obama amnesty is unconstitutional
The Washington Times ^ | December 16, 2014 | Stephen Dinan

Posted on 12/16/2014 11:38:02 AM PST by jazusamo

A federal judge has found parts of President Obama’s new deportation amnesty to be unconstitutional, issuing a scathing memo Tuesday accusing him of usurping Congress’s power to make laws, and dismantling most of the White House’s legal reasoning for circumventing Congress.

Judge Arthur J. Schwab, sitting in the western district of Pennsylvania, said presidents do have powers to use discretion in deciding how to enforce the law, but said Mr. Obama’s new policy goes well beyond that, setting up a full system for granting legal protections to broad groups of individuals. He said Mr. Obama writing laws — a power that’s reserved for Congress, not the president.

“President Obama’s unilateral legislative action violates the separation of powers provided for in the United States Constitution as well as the Take Care Clause, and therefore is unconstitutional,” Judge Schwab wrote.

The judge also said the policy allows illegal immigrants “to obtain substantive rights.”

The memo came as part of a deportation case before the judge, and Judge Schwab’s order does not invalidate the president’s policies. But it serves as a warning shot as other direct challenges to the new amnesty begin to make their way through the courts.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: aliens; amnesty; executiveorders; illegals; immigration; judgeschwab; obama; obamaamnestyillegal
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To: jazusamo

Screw you GOPe for not voting with Ted Cruz. Idiots!!


21 posted on 12/16/2014 11:49:44 AM PST by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!)
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To: jazusamo

YES! , now jail the socialist marxist would be dictator Obama for these high crimes that violated our Constitution which he cannot do


22 posted on 12/16/2014 11:49:48 AM PST by Democrat_media (The media is the problem. reporters are just democrat political activists posing as reporters)
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To: MaxMax

The GOP House leadership will DOUBLE DOWN and try to squelch this story and this decision. They want total amnesty.


23 posted on 12/16/2014 11:50:04 AM PST by navyguy (The National Reset Button is pushed with the trigger finger.)
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To: jazusamo

” and Judge Schwab’s order does not invalidate the president’s policies”

For heaven’s sake,why?

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24 posted on 12/16/2014 11:50:28 AM PST by Mears
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To: ground_fog; All

True..Washington Establishment Party, votes constantly to screw the American Taxpayers.


25 posted on 12/16/2014 11:51:53 AM PST by skinkinthegrass ("Bathhouse" E'Bola/0'Boehmer/0'McConnell; all STINK and their best friends are flies. d8^)
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To: jazusamo

Check the brakes on the way home.


26 posted on 12/16/2014 11:52:04 AM PST by ealgeone
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To: jazusamo

Meaningless.

Even if SCOTUS throws it out, he’ll do it anyway


27 posted on 12/16/2014 11:52:22 AM PST by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: Jim Robinson

BTTT!

GO Ted Cruz!


28 posted on 12/16/2014 11:52:52 AM PST by jazusamo (0bama to go 'full-Mussolini' after elections: Mark Levin)
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To: jazusamo
Federal judge finds Obama amnesty is unconstitutional

So what. One can just as easily find another judge who'll be carrying the Left's and Bath House's water on this issue. What "the law" means anymore is nothing but a judicial lottery by black robed idiots with big egos.

29 posted on 12/16/2014 11:54:53 AM PST by bkopto (Free men are not equal. Equal men are not free.)
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To: spokeshave

Isn’t that John Boehner’s truck?


30 posted on 12/16/2014 11:56:14 AM PST by WayneS (Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.)
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To: All
But it serves as a warning shot

Since when does anybody up there care about a warning shot? I'd doubt that a complete overturn by SCOTUS would even be effective at this point.
31 posted on 12/16/2014 11:57:45 AM PST by mmichaels1970
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To: jazusamo

And on appeal, the next judge will say it’s Constitutional, and then the next will shoot it down, and finally it’ll wend its way to SCOTUS, where the namby pamby, so-called “Conservative” judges will find a reason that it’s Constitutional, and all will be well in Obolaland. And us “patriots”? Well, we’ll keep on doing what we do best: Piss and moan, and then go to work so we can pay the bills.


32 posted on 12/16/2014 11:58:21 AM PST by dware ("White Privilege" stems from one's ability to lace up work boots and read a work schedule)
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To: jazusamo

As it should be.


33 posted on 12/16/2014 11:58:50 AM PST by b4its2late (A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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To: GeronL
Even if SCOTUS throws it out, he’ll do it anyway

Exactly right. What's congress gonna do anyway? Impeach? No way. Not a black man - nation-wide Ferguson riots would result. Besides, congress is made of cowards, naves, thieves and traitors, anyway.

34 posted on 12/16/2014 11:59:25 AM PST by bkopto (Free men are not equal. Equal men are not free.)
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To: jazusamo

It’ll be overturned on appeal.

That said, Obama’s not going to back down.


35 posted on 12/16/2014 11:59:40 AM PST by Tzimisce
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To: Jim Robinson

For sure Jim. We’ll purge them next.


36 posted on 12/16/2014 11:59:48 AM PST by b4its2late (A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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To: jazusamo

LOL, Throw some of that unconstitutional back at Obama , ROFL


37 posted on 12/16/2014 12:00:33 PM PST by molson209 (Blank)
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To: GeronL
Even if the SC throws it out, he'll do it anyway

That's what I'm wondering. What's to stop Obama from spending the next two years in Hawaii, passing executive orders and doing what he damn well pleases? Boehner and McConnell?

It's up to the conservatives in the HOR to get Boehner out of his position.

38 posted on 12/16/2014 12:01:24 PM PST by grania
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To: jazusamo
The judge must be wrong, Congress just agreed to fund the program, so they must agree with it. Count on an Appeals Court deciding exactly that. Since Congress had an opportunity to NOT fund the implementation, they approved of it implicitly, by enabling the money to be spent.

This deal is done.

39 posted on 12/16/2014 12:05:13 PM PST by Sgt_Schultze (A half-truth is a complete lie)
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To: Sgt_Schultze

There is no Executive Order, if I understand it correctly. That, in and of itself is a problem for Obama because not only is he implementing something not authorized by the Constitution, there is no executive order for it either. There is NO authorization for it, whatsoever, except for the fact it has been funded.


40 posted on 12/16/2014 12:11:02 PM PST by Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America
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