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[Zeppnote: The Republicans are so screwed on this. They can't figure out
how to react, partly because they want to salvage what's left of the
Latino vote, and partly because they know if they condemn Obama for it,
Democrats will happily note that George W. Bush did the same thing back
in 2004! Meanwhile, even as they don't respond, every mindless bigot in
the country is painting their stance for them, including the proto-Nazi
Steve King.]
Republican may sue to continue deportation of youths brought to U.S.
illegally as children
By Muriel Kane
Friday, June 15, 2012 18:26 EDT
President Obama’s announcement that his administration intends to block
the deportation of as many as 800,000 young people who were brought to
the U.S. illegally as children has already aroused a storm of fury on the
right.
Most of the Republican Congressional leadership has been slow to react as
they weigh the electoral implications of opposing the aspirations of
young people who did not choose to commit any illegal acts and have grown
up as Americans, in some cases even serving in the U.S. military.
Rep. Steve King (R-IA), however, has no such doubts. He informed the Des
Moines Register on Friday that he believes the president’s executive
order not only violates both the Constitution and U.S. statute by waiving
the law for certain classes of people but represents a violation of
Obama’s oath of office.
“I expect to bring a lawsuit against the president of the United States
to suspend his executive order,” King told the paper.
King, who successfully sued then-Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack in 1999 over a
state executive order that would have banned discrimination against gay,
lesbian, and transgender government employees, believes that this is “a
very, very similar case” and that he is on “very solid constitutional
ground.”
He also sees it as a potentially potent electoral issue among
conservative voters, because “It’s not longer about what policy you might
prefer and it’s whether you uphold the Constitution and rule of law.”
Rachel Weiner at the Washington Post, however, believes this is “a fight
the White House undoubtedly wants — between an administration attempting
to help young immigrants who were raised in the United States and a
Republican Party bent on stopping him.”
She suggests that the executive order is likely to boost Obama’s
prospects among Hispanic voters, not just through his own actions but
because also because it may incite extreme anti-immigrant rhetoric from
Republicans like King
Weiner further notes that George W. Bush regularly issued executive
orders on everything from climate change to stem cell research and that
constitutional experts are skeptical that King can make a case against
Obama employing what is essentially no more than an extension of the
presidential pardon power.
“If Obama was actively defying an act of Congress, that would [be] a
constitutional confrontation,” CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin
explained. “But I don’t think you can assert that this is actively
defying the law. This is simply applying it with [Obama’s] discretion as
the executive.”
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