17 states REBEL against Obama, join lawsuit over immigration scandal
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Seventeen states have allied together in order to sue President Obama's administration, citing the president's disregard for constitutional limits to presidential power, and refused to fulfill his obligation to enforce U.S. laws when he attempted to dismiss immigration laws with unilateral action.
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Catholic Online (https://www.catholic.org)
12/4/2014 (9 years ago)
Published in Politics & Policy
Keywords: Obama, Immigration, Obamacare, Amnesty, Mexico
LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - Filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas, the lawsuit is "about the rule of law, presidential power, and the structural limits of the U.S. Constitution."
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The states behind the lawsuit-which they hope will result in courts blocking the president's action-are Texas, Alabama, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Montana, Nebraska, South Carolina, North Carolina, South Dakota, Utah, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Mississippi and Maine.
Greg Abbott, the Attorney General of Texas explained the argument behind the lawsuit for Texas, one of the 17 states suing the president.
"The President's unilateral executive action tramples the U.S. Constitution's Take Care Clause and federal law," he said. "The Constitution's Take Care Clause limits the President's power and ensures that he will faithfully execute Congress's laws-not rewrite them under the guise of 'prosecutorial discretion."
"The ability of the president to dispense with laws was specifically considered and unanimously rejected at the Constitutional Convention," he continued.
During a speech in Chicago, Obama even admitted that he had changed the law, something the lawsuit pointed out.
"On November 20, 2014, the President of the United States announced that he would unilaterally suspend the immigration laws as applied to 4 million of the 11 million undocumented immigrants in the United States," the lawsuit reads.
As Obama said during the speech: "What you're not paying attention to is, I just took an action to change the law."
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