by NoOneImportant » Sat Nov 08, 2014 12:49 pm
Guest wrote:
Can the President legally declare 35 million illegals US citizens or grant them Greeen cards without congressional approval? Is that constitutional?
You are under the misapprehension that Obama gives a damn about the US Constitution. The making of Law in America has for roughly 225 years been well defined. A bill originates in either house. If the Law is different in either of the two houses the differences are hammered out in a conference committee between the two houses. The unified version is then sent back and voted on in both houses. If passed in both houses the bill is sent to the President for signature, or veto. If signed it becomes Law, if not (Congressional override aside) it does not.
None of the three parties in this process is permitted to alter, unilaterally, the verbiage (content) of the bill without going through the entire process again. Once the bill has become law it is the Presidents sworn duty to administer the Law as enacted. He does not have the discretion to unilaterally alter the Law's provisions, time tables, or requirements without going back through the entire Legislative process to alter the content of the Law. Obama has unilaterally altered (illegally I might add) by dictate, dozens of the provisions of Obamacare. Additionally Obama has declared that he will not enforce certain standing Laws. In short Obama is Nixon on steroids... he just doesn't think that the law applies to him, or perhaps more importantly so long as he can depend upon a corrupt Attorney General, and a pliant ambivalent populace he doesn't care whether the law applies to him or not. The US Constitution means nothing to such a venial man.
Until and unless there is someone present to hold the President's feet to the fire, to make him feel real jeopardy for his illegal actions, he may do as he pleases. And he may do it without regard to the US Constitution or anything else until indicted or sued.
Guest wrote:
[quote]Can the President legally declare 35 million illegals US citizens or grant them Greeen cards without congressional approval? Is that constitutional?[/quote]
You are under the misapprehension that Obama gives a damn about the US Constitution. The making of Law in America has for roughly 225 years been well defined. A bill originates in either house. If the Law is different in either of the two houses the differences are hammered out in a conference committee between the two houses. The unified version is then sent back and voted on in both houses. If passed in both houses the bill is sent to the President for signature, or veto. If signed it becomes Law, if not (Congressional override aside) it does not.
None of the three parties in this process is permitted to alter, unilaterally, the verbiage (content) of the bill without going through the entire process again. Once the bill has become law it is the Presidents sworn duty to administer the Law as enacted. He does not have the discretion to unilaterally alter the Law's provisions, time tables, or requirements without going back through the entire Legislative process to alter the content of the Law. Obama has unilaterally altered (illegally I might add) by dictate, dozens of the provisions of Obamacare. Additionally Obama has declared that he will not enforce certain standing Laws. In short Obama is Nixon on steroids... he just doesn't think that the law applies to him, or perhaps more importantly so long as he can depend upon a corrupt Attorney General, and a pliant ambivalent populace he doesn't care whether the law applies to him or not. The US Constitution means nothing to such a venial man.
Until and unless there is someone present to hold the President's feet to the fire, to make him feel real jeopardy for his illegal actions, he may do as he pleases. And he may do it without regard to the US Constitution or anything else until indicted or sued.