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Texas federal court issues injunction on Obama’s amnesty — 16 Comments

  1. “However, this illustrates once again how important federal judge appointments are; they can determine the future no matter who a subsequent president may be.”
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    Truer words never spoken.
    I recall the fiasco caused by Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) when he headed up the Judiciary Committee. Very liberal appointees throughout his tenure there.

  2. This decision by the judge in Texas will now send this case to the 5th Circuit in Louisiana.
    It’ll be a long time coming.

  3. The “Unconstitutionality Index” is the ratio of regulations issued by agencies compared to legislation passed by Congress and signed into law by the president. The ratio stood at 51 for 2013. That means there were 72 new laws and 3,659 new rules — 51 rules for every law, or a new rule every 2 ½ hours.

    The top six federal rulemaking agencies account for 49.3 percent of all federal rules. In 2013, these were the Departments of the Treasury, Commerce, Interior, Health and Human Services, and Transportation and the Environmental Protection Agency.

    The 2013 Federal Register contains 79,311 pages, the fourth highest ever. The top two all-time totals are 81,405 pages in 2010 and 81,247 in 2011, both under Obama.

  4. GOP majority in senate needs to go to the nuclear option asap. No filibusters on funding bills, just a straight up and down vote. Fight fire with fire and treat the dem minority just like they treated the gop minority. Rush through a funding bill preventing dhs from implementing the messiah’s executive amnesty. Put it on the desk where he keeps his pen and phone and dare him to veto. When he vetoes send it back to him.

  5. I think Jennifer Rubin is on the mark here — Republicans should stop putting themselves into lose-lose propositions:

    Republican leaders in the House and Senate are now in a standoff: Who will be the first to acknowledge there will be no defunding of the president’s executive order on immigration? Both the speaker of the House and the Senate majority leader know it is true, but neither wants to be the first to close down the kabuki dance going on in the Senate by introducing a clean bill. Eventually one of them will, so perhaps they should flip a coin – or simply announce together that the hope for getting rid of the order before the president leaves office rests with lawsuits. You know – go out on a limb and admit reality.

    Republicans would be wise to avoid these useless standoffs for the remainder of the president’s term.

  6. neo-neocon, are you one of those wascally adults jumping out of your window into the snow drifts?
    If so, you have a good time. You go, girl….And to hell with your mayor:

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    Things have gotten so bad that Boston Mayor Marty Walsh was forced to deliver some real talk to the citizenry – specifically warning the knuckleheads who have been jumping out of their windows and into the snow to cut it out.

    What he said:

    “I’m asking people to stop their nonsense right now. These are adults jumping out windows,” Walsh said on Monday, according to the Boston Herald. “It’s a foolish thing to do and you could kill yourself.”

    What he meant:

    DON’T BE IDIOTS, PEOPLE.

    To understand why this is even a thing, we turn to Walsh once again. Boston, he noted, has been buried under 96 inches of snow (and counting) so far this winter. The city is just a few inches away from the all-time record – a record that literally no one wants.
    (well, except for Global Warming wackos. They want more snow so as to further reconcile that this wacky weather is all explained by weird weather patterns brought about by, you got it, Global Warming. You simply can’t make this stuff up)

  7. I expect the 5th to rescind the TRO, but if they don’t, it will be interesting to see what Obama does then. I expect that he will not appeal to SCOTUS at that point, but will, instead, simply ignore the order.

  8. And I should note that there is no evidence that they will actually obey the order, even with Johnson’s statement. It certainly isn’t out of the realm of possibility that Jeh Johnson is just flat out lying for his boss.

  9. Yancey Ward:

    I believe they will obey the order in the sense that they will not set up the benefits (i.e. paperwork, etc.) for them.

    They will not be deporting anyone, though. But just failing to deport people is not technically disobeying the order. The order had to do with staying the setting up of the affirmative program to give them official status. That’s my understanding of it, anyway; haven’t read the entire decision, just the summaries.

  10. This injunction will stand. The way the decision was written it is absolutely bulletproof on appeal.

    And who is going to be a plaintiff with standing for the likes of the ACLU to file a case in Boston?

    For once, conservatives have outsmarted the Left.

  11. Spotted out there on the internet
    (part on-topic but part off-topic) . . .

    Dear Mr. Obama:

    I’m planning to move my family and extended family into Mexico for my health, and I would like to ask you to assist me. We’re planning to simply walk across the border from the U.S. into Mexico, and we’ll need your help to make a few arrangements. We plan to skip all the legal stuff like visas, passports, immigration quotas and laws. I’m sure they handle those things the same way you do here So, would you mind telling your buddy, the President of Mexico , that I’m on my way over? Please let him know that I will be expecting the following:

    1. Free medical care for my entire family.
    2. English-speaking Government bureaucrats for all services I might need, whether I use them or not.
    3. Please print all Mexican Government forms in English.
    4. I want my grand kids to be taught Spanish by English-speaking (bi-lingual) teachers.
    5. Tell their schools they need to include classes on American culture and history.
    6. I want my grand kids to see the American flag on one of the flag poles at their school.
    7. Please plan to feed my grand kids at school for both breakfast and lunch.
    8. I will need a local Mexican driver’s license so I can get easy access to government services.
    9. I do plan to get a car and drive in Mexico, but I don’t plan to purchase car insurance, and I probably won’t make any special effort to learn local traffic laws.
    10. In case one of the Mexican police officers does not get the memo from their president to leave me alone, please be sure that every patrol car has at least one English-speaking officer.
    11. I plan to fly the U.S. flag from my house top, put US. flag decals on my car, and have a gigantic celebration on July 4th. I do not want any complaints or negative comments from the locals.
    12. I would also like to have a nice job without paying any taxes, or have any labor or tax laws enforced on any business I may start.
    13. Please have the president tell all the Mexican people to be extremely nice and never say critical things about me or my family, or about the strain we might place on their economy.
    14. I want to receive free food stamps.
    15. Naturally, I’ll expect free rent subsidies.
    16. I’ll need income tax credits so that although I don’t pay Mexican taxes, I’ll receive money from the government.
    17. Please arrange it so that the Mexican Government pays $4,500.00 to help me buy a new car.
    18. Oh yes, I almost forgot, please enroll me free into the Mexican Social Security program so that I’ll get a monthly income in retirement.

    Doug Baker

  12. “Oh, and of course the majority of Americans would blame the GOP for any DHS funding block, not Obama, and feel that a DHS shutdown would be a problem or crisis. ”

    And why shouldn’t they? That’s exactly what the GOP luminaries told the American public when they promised not to shut down the government for any reason. They didn’t just preemptively surrender the power of the purse when they won control of Congress, they preemptively took the blame.

    The only clowns I can stand even less than the national GOP leadership are the Democrats.

  13. R’s act and they’ll be blamed.

    R’s don’t act and they are blamed.

    The logic is inescapable – you act.

    Unless….unless you are so cowardly that it is embarrassing.

    There are only a handful of Rs worth listening to – the ones with an ounce of courage and principles: Cruz, Palin, etc.

    They should be touchstones. Anyone who does not say what they say should be shut off and shut down completely – not worth a bucket of warm you know what as they say.

  14. Headlines from Drudge this morning.

    Admin to quadruple admission of Syrian refugees…
    Program called ‘backdoor for Jihadists’…
    OBAMA LETTING ISIS IN?…
    BOOM: OBAMA HITS 50% AT GALLUP…

    While I am deeply suspect of opinion polls, it is shocking to see this. If you go to the link provided (on Drudge) you see Americans more optimistic about our economic future.
    What alternate universe are these people living in?

    The left’s ‘Contract on America’ proceeds and all the republicans can do is fume and fluster, while meekly going along.

    Without a real change in leadership, we are headed for calamity, yet the majority of the public is catatonic. It is rapidly becoming too late and Obama will have achieved his objectives. America will be fundamentally transformed, for the worse.

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