Posted on 02/18/2015 6:59:48 AM PST by Olog-hai
If federal law enforcement officers apprehended a person who had been using a false Social Security Number, a federal prosecutor with a heavy caseload dominated by more serious crimes might decide not to indict the person. Whatever its merits, that would be an act of prosecutorial discretion. But what if the prosecutor were to tell this user of a false Social Security Number: It is okay for you to continue using that false Social Security Number tomorrow. In fact, you may do so with impunity for the next three years. Would that be an act of prosecutorial discretion? Or would it effectively make the prosecutor a co-conspirator with someone using a false Social Security Number? […]
The judge (Andrew S. Hanen) sealed his case that the administration’s immigration action is not merely an act of discretion, but a change in the law itself, by quoting Obama himself.
“What is perhaps most perplexing about the defendant’s claim that DAPA is merely ‘guidance’ is the president’s own labeling of the program,” said the judge. “In formally announcing DAPA to the nation for the first time, President Obama stated, ‘I just took an action to change the law.’”
The Constitution, of course, does not give Obama the power to change the law. If Obama succeeds in usurping that authority, he and future presidents will use it for more than granting illegal aliens work permits and Social Security Numbers. …
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You sorta expect this from one who is an illegal immigrant himself.
Without recourse to congress, it goes without saying.
Still can’t explain why he has a Ct. SS number even though he has never lived in Ct. You would think some enterprising reporter would be able to uncover the truth.
I’ll take...
Would that be an act of prosecutorial discretion? For 200 Alex...
What is the entirety of Obama’s Department of Justice.
true, but I’m more worried about 5 million noob illegals who will vote for the next obama......than I am the one in the WH.
Obama has run all over congress. If he can change the law, he’ll even run over the courts. In effect, he has now opened up a war on two fronts with his power grab. Congress and the courts will, if for no other reasons, fight him to protect their own authority. If they don’t they’ll become irrelevant and the country will be a dictatorship. I predict Obama will suffer a huge defeat on this issue.
Obummer thinks he was elected to be emperor.
‘I predict Obama will suffer a huge defeat on this issue.’
You’re an optimist, I see.
"Obama checkmated himself"
what a genius....and this is a guy whose highest gaming experience is checkers.
conributor = contributor ...need more coffee this am
It’s a , Good To Be King Time
Just looking realistically at the politics of this in the context of the many players involved and what’s at stake. He’s seriously encroaching on the power of both the congress and the courts. And 26 states are fighting him. He wants to make all the rules. I don’t think the other parties involved are going to allow this.
How do you see the outcome of this contest? Do you see Obama being allowed to formally establish (and that’s exactly what it would be) his own preeminence at the expense of the other bodies? Please share your view.
Identity theft IS a serious crime. Using someone else’s social security number IS worthy of prosecution.
Prosecutorial discretion my ‘rat’s a@@’.
Citizens have to pay private companies to lifelock their financial data since the gub’mint is too busy whoring itself out to protect Hollyweird copyrights under the banner of HOMELAND SECURITY to secure more $$$ for Democrat coffers.
My view is that Obama will do whatever the f*** he likes, and neither the courts nor congress will step up to stop him.
It’ll be for the next president (hopefully Cruz) do undo the damage - which will, in any case, be a long and tedious process.
F.D.R. was a far more popular president than Obama ever was and thought he could do whatever he wanted too, but the courts put the brakes on him. I think that history lesson is instructive.
Obama has overplayed his hand IMO and is about to get slapped down on this issue which is very important to him. But despite this loss, he’ll keep pushing the envelope of course. He’s power mad and obsessed with “transforming” the country into one of his own making.
This issue will likely wind up in the Supreme Court but it should be resolved by early summer.
Obama’s amnesty is itself unenforceable. How could I enter into a legal contract of any sort with an illegal who doesn’t have secure ID? Why wou
I suspect at least half the illegals won’t take any amnesty deal. What do you do then, give amnesty to the amnesty breakers?
Mark Levin mentioned last night that prosecutorial discretion ends with refusing to enforce deportation law. Once Obama began handing out work visas to these people, it was no longer discretion but now affirmative change to the law.
-PJ
It’s good to be the king.
BHO
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