What "illegals" in your opinion did President Reagan "pardon" and for what purported crimes?
On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 3:10 PM, plainolamerican <[email protected]> wrote: > so Reagan could pardon illegals for their crimes but Obama can't delay > deportations? > ok. > > > On Thursday, November 12, 2015 at 2:07:39 PM UTC-6, Travis wrote: > >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> He’s trying his best to be. >> >> >> >> B >> >> >> >> >> https://www.lewrockwell.com/2015/11/andrew-p-napolitano/president-dictator/ >> The President and the Rule of Law >> <https://www.lewrockwell.com/2015/11/andrew-p-napolitano/president-dictator/> >> >> By Andrew P. Napolitano >> <https://www.lewrockwell.com/author/andrew-p-napolitano/?ptype=article> >> >> November 12, 2015 >> >> Earlier this week, a federal appeals court in New Orleans upheld an >> injunction issued by a federal district court in Texas against the federal >> government, thereby preventing it from implementing President Barack >> Obama’s executive orders on immigration. Critics had argued and two federal >> courts have now agreed that the orders effectively circumvented federal law >> and were essentially unconstitutional. >> >> Though the injunction on its face restrains officials in the Department >> of Homeland Security, it is really a restraint on the president himself. >> Here is the back story. >> >> President Obama has long wished to overhaul the nation’s immigration laws >> to make it easier for people who are here illegally to remain here and to >> make it easier for them eventually to acquire the attributes of >> citizenship. He may have a bighearted moral motivation, or he may have a >> partisan political motivation. I don’t know which it is, but his motivation >> has driven him to use extraconstitutional means to achieve his ends. >> >> During his first term in office, he attempted to have federal laws >> changed — quite properly at first — by offering proposals to Congress, >> which it rejected. That rejection left in place a complex regulatory scheme >> that is partially administered by DHS and partially by the Department of >> Justice. It left about 11.3 million people unlawfully present in the United >> States. >> >> The conscious decision of Congress not to change the law in the face of >> such a large number of undocumented people here left those people, adults >> and children, exposed to deportation. It also left them entitled to >> financial benefits paid for by the states in which they reside. >> >> Deportation is a lengthy and expensive process. The courts have ruled >> that all people subject to deportation are entitled to a hearing, with >> counsel paid for by the government. If they lose, they are entitled to an >> appeal, with counsel paid for by the government. The government has teams >> of prosecutors, defense counsel and judges who address only deportations. >> The highest number of people the government has successfully deported in a >> year is about 250,000, which was done in 2013. If you add removals without >> trial (many are voluntary) and rejections at the border, the number swells >> to 438,000 a year. >> >> While awaiting deportation, those people here unlawfully and not confined >> are entitled to the social safety net that states offer everyone else, as >> well as the direct benefits states make available to citizens, such as >> public schooling, access to hospital emergency rooms, and housing and >> personal living assistance. >> >> Frustrated that Congress thwarted his will, President Obama — resorting >> to his now infamous and probably regretted one-liner that he can govern by >> using a pen and a phone — issued a series of executive orders in 2012 to >> various federal agencies, directing them to cease deportation of >> undocumented people if they complied with certain standards that the >> president wished of them. The standards, compliance with which would bar >> deportation, were essentially the same as those that the president had >> sought and Congress had rejected. >> >> Can the president write his own laws or procedures? >> >> In the litigation that came to a head early this week, 26 states, led by >> Texas, sued the federal government. In that lawsuit, the states argued that >> they would be made to endure unbearable financial burdens if the >> undocumented folks stayed where they are and if the states continued to >> make the same social safety net available to them as they make available to >> their lawful residents. Thus, the states argued, the president forced the >> states to spend money they hadn’t budgeted or collected to support a legal >> scheme that Congress had not only never authorized but expressly rejected. >> >> Can the president write his own laws and procedures? >> >> The states also argued in their lawsuit that if the DHS and DOJ complied >> with the president’s executive orders, those federal departments would be >> exceeding their authority under the statutes because the president was >> exceeding his authority. This is a president who has argued dozens of times >> in public that he is not a king and that he lacks the ability to recast the >> laws as he wishes they had been written. >> >> Can the president write his own laws and procedures? >> >> In a word: No. The president can issue executive orders to officials in >> the executive branch of government directing those officials to enforce the >> laws as the president wishes them to be enforced — within the letter and >> spirit of those laws. But those executive orders cannot write new laws or >> revise old laws or ignore existing laws that the Congress clearly expects >> to be enforced. That is just what a federal district court judge ruled >> earlier this year and just what a federal appellate court ruled in >> affirming the district court earlier this week. >> >> All people who embrace the rule of law — whether they are for open >> borders or for an impenetrable border wall — should embrace these rulings >> because they keep the president within the confines of the Constitution, >> which he has sworn to uphold. >> >> Under our constitutional system of supposedly limited government, all >> legislative power is vested in Congress. The president enforces the laws; >> he doesn’t write them. His oath of office commits him to preserve, protect >> and defend the Constitution, and it further commits him to enforce the >> federal laws “faithfully” — meaning whether he personally agrees with them >> or not. >> >> The clash between the president and the courts is as old as our republic >> itself. Courts are traditionally loath to interfere with the business of >> Congress or the president. Yet when the behavior of another branch of >> government defies core constitutional norms, it is the duty of the courts >> in a case properly before them to say what the Constitution means and to >> order compliance with it. >> >> *Reprinted with the author’s permission.* >> >> >> >> >> __._,_.___ >> ------------------------------ >> Posted by: "Beowulf" <[email protected]> >> ------------------------------ >> >> >> Visit Your Group >> <https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/grendelreport/info;_ylc=X3oDMTJmY2xtcDM4BF9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzIwMTk0ODA2BGdycHNwSWQDMTcwNTMyMzY2NwRzZWMDdnRsBHNsawN2Z2hwBHN0aW1lAzE0NDczNDQ0NzE-> >> >> >> [image: Yahoo! 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