From President Obama, in a video posted Wednesday on Facebook:
What I’m going to be laying out is the things that I can do with my lawful authority as president to make the system better, even as I continue to work with Congress and encourage them to get a bipartisan, comprehensive bill that can solve the entire problem.
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20141120/us-obama-immigration-2e70f2e672.html
The president’s conception of “lawful authority,” as we’ve seen with multiple revisions of the Affordable Care Act, is he can amend duly passed laws any way he sees fit, and can choose to enforce or not enforce laws as he likes. The purported justification for not enforcing current immigration law is “prosecutorial discretion,” a sweeping expansion of the doctrine that the enforcement arm of the government may make decisions about where to use scarce resources. Not that Obama is worried about what will happen when he gets out of office (a concern that he might not leave office come January 2017 is not entirely unjustified), but Kimberly Strassel had a not altogether facetious take on what a Republican president might do with the Obama doctrine in today’s Wall Street Journal (“The Next Prez and the Obama Way”). The rest of us are wondering: if the president can choose which laws to enforce, can we choose which laws to obey?
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What’s good for the goose, is good for the gander..
Yes. Already in effect.
Dead pigs. When there is no Rule of Law, it works BOTH ways. I hope they – and their families – are ready to enjoy the fruits of their labors under their very own Rules of Engagement.
Or do you not understand that EVERY ONE OF THEM is swore to uphold the Constitution before they pin on that badge? And that NOT EVEN ONE OF THEM will bother to honor that oath? Or maybe you think the Muslim in Chief is NOT standing behind the Blue Wall as he uses that Constitution for toilet paper?
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Maybe we serfs could call it “Lawful Non-compliance”?
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The Rule of Law is Dead.
Behave accordingly.
The Rule of Law is dead.
Behave accordingly.