I'm surprised nobody's posted anything about this yet....
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Thoughts on Obama's Executive Action on Immigration?
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Originally posted by Zymologist View PostI'm surprised nobody's posted anything about this yet....
The argument has quickly moved off the legal aspect of Obama's executive order, with even conservative scholars agreeing that Obama has sufficiently wide latitude in immigration law to provide this relief, and onto "political norms," arguing that Obama is setting a precedent that a Republican president in the future can use to, say, waive the individual mandate or provide tax relief. What people seem to be forgetting is that G.W. Bush used his executive authority to cut back enforcement of the estate tax and that Mitt Romney repeatedly promised on the campaign trail in 2012 to waive the individual mandate through an executive order on Day One of his presidency. Obama didn't open a door for future GOP presidents to use; at worst, he walked through a door that was broken off its hinges by G.W. Bush. But, realistically, he didn't even do that. This order is a difference of degree to Reagan and H.W. Bush's orders, not a difference in kind."I wonder about the trees. / Why do we wish to bear / Forever the noise of these / More than another noise / Robert Frost, "The Sound of Trees"
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Originally posted by Sam View PostIt's legal and does not even stray terribly far from historical precedent. It is sufficiently limited in scope that the president cannot even be rightly accused of deviating from the spirit of immigration law....
....Obama didn't open a door for future GOP presidents to use; at worst, he walked through a door that was broken off its hinges by G.W. Bush. But, realistically, he didn't even do that. This order is a difference of degree to Reagan and H.W. Bush's orders, not a difference in kind.
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