Less than a day after the Supreme Court ruled unanimously that Obama’s use of recess appointment powers was unconstitutional, the White House was still threatening to use executive action to install amnesty if Congress doesn’t roll over and go along with the president’s plan.
“We’re not just going to sit around and wait interminably for Congress,” said Press Secretary Josh Earnest during an interview on MSNBC. “We’ve been waiting a year already. The president has tasked his Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson with reviewing what options are available to the president, what is at his disposal using his executive authority to try to address some of the problems that have been created by our broken immigration system.”
The Supreme Court’s ruling can’t help but bolster Speaker of the House John Boehner’s effort to sue the president for his imperial abuse of his authority. But even on the point, Obama remains defiant, telling George Stephanopolous, “I’m not going to apologize for trying to do something while they’re doing nothing.”
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Less than a day after the Supreme Court ruled unanimously that Obama’s use of recess appointment powers was unconstitutional, the White House was still threatening to use executive action to install amnesty if Congress doesn’t roll over and go along with the president’s plan.
“We’re not just going to sit around and wait interminably for Congress,” said Press Secretary Josh Earnest during an interview on MSNBC. “We’ve been waiting a year already. The president has tasked his Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson with reviewing what options are available to the president, what is at his disposal using his executive authority to try to address some of the problems that have been created by our broken immigration system.”
The Supreme Court’s ruling can’t help but bolster Speaker of the House John Boehner’s effort to sue the president for his imperial abuse of his authority. But even on the point, Obama remains defiant, telling George Stephanopolous, “I’m not going to apologize for trying to do something while they’re doing nothing.”
Read more at Joe for America.
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