The Least Constitutional "Constitutional Scholar" POTUS Since FDR

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/06/24/us/supreme-court-immigration-obama-dapa.html

The case,United States v. Texas,No. 15-674,concerned a 2014 executive action by the president to allow as many as five million unauthorized immigrants who were the parents of citizens or of lawful permanent residents to apply for a program that would spare them from deportation and provide them with work permits. The program was called Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents,or DAPA.

Mr. Obama has said he took the action after years of frustration with Republicans in Congress who had repeatedly refused to support bipartisan Senate legislation to update immigration laws. A coalition of 26 states,led by Texas,promptly challenged the plan,accusing the president of ignoring administrative procedures for changing rules and of abusing the power of his office by circumventing Congress.

“Today’s decision keeps in place what we have maintained from the very start: One person,even a president,cannot unilaterally change the law,” Ken Paxton,the Texas attorney general,said in a statement after the ruling. “This is a major setback to President Obama’s attempts to expand executive power,and a victory for those who believe in the separation of powers and the rule of law.”

Since Ike by executive actions on the Hungarian refugees, the cuban refugees, and the Vietnamese refugees Presidents have been making executive decisions on immigration.   If the system worked there would be a replacement for Judge Scalia, and the discretion in regard to priority of deportation would not have been supported by the high court, but that sword swings both ways, but if anybody thinks that President Obama is not a constitutional scholar, you would have to ask the best scholar Larry Tribe of Harvard, who said that President Obama was his best constitutional law student in his career.........President Obama will win in the end, and this temporary delay of justice will not stop our constitution from working.....and Donald Trump will not appoint anybody to the Supreme Court.

But I heard he is in Scotland interviewing legal scholars to make his short list......somebody is going to have to tell him......but heck....way too much fun.

Obama might have been good at answering multiple choice test questions... but he obviously has no working knowledge. His executive privilege in the fast n furious scheme was shot down... epa fracking order vacated... recess appointments rejected... immigration amnesty halted... and many more. He might be a scholar at trying to circumvent the constitution... but really a scholar implies expertise... and he keeps getting his ass handed to him.

He has never had his head handed to him from the Supreme Court. When they found the ACA constitutional a generation of Americans lives were improved, and all these small setbacks.....within four years........reversal when the court is properly constituted and politics is removed. In the absence of Congress acting, the executive must keep this country operating......the Supreme Court must slap the executives hand regularly.....that is how our system works, but it will not stop him from doing what he thinks is right.......and right does not always mean the Supreme Court will agree, or that Congress will pass necessary legislation.

Wordslinger wrote:

PkrBum wrote:Obama might have been good at answering multiple choice  test questions... but he obviously has no working knowledge. His executive privilege in the fast n furious scheme was shot down... epa fracking order vacated... recess appointments rejected... immigration amnesty halted... and many more. He might be a scholar at trying to circumvent the constitution... but really a scholar implies expertise... and he keeps getting his ass handed to him.

RACIST!

When all else fails... lol.