Remember last week, when U.S. District Court Judge Andrew Hanen injuncted the White House from beginning implementation of Obamnesty? And then, just today, Judge Hanen rejected the Regime's request for a stay of his injunction? Finally, remember how I predicted that if The One decided that he was unlikely to win appeals to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals and the SCOTUS, that he wouldn't waste months on that legal process and would simply defy the Judicial Branch as he already is the Legislative Branch and just roll ahead with Obamnesty anyway?
See, I told you so:
[Barack] Obama’s amnesty juggernaut has taken another step forward despite a federal judge’s order to halt it in its tracks.
The president’s plan to delay the deportation of as many as five million illegal aliens through memos issued by appointees moved ahead Tuesday when the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services announced the extension of a program allowing spouses of certain visa holders to obtain work permits.
According to the Washington Times, the move will, in ninety days, allow some 180,000 [aliens] to be eligible for the benefit “in the first year.”...
And make no mistake, folks, this isn't any furtive nibble around the edges, this is "damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead":
Then WND reported the Washington watchdog Judicial Watch revealed the Obama administration was moving quickly on contracts for the president’s amnesty even though Hanen ordered a halt.
Judicial Watch said it had a source inside the industry of government contracts who said there is “no indication that the court order has impacted, slowed down or modified the procurement in any way.”
“They’re really rushing into it,” the source said.
Judicial Watch cited a government solicitation for companies to provide services for Obama’s plans to process illegal aliens and give them many of the privileges of citizenship.
The deal is immense, Judicial Watch said, with an estimated need for between 200 and 600 contractors....
Judicial Watch said that though a federal court “has blocked President Obama’s amnesty order, the administration continues working behind the scenes to quickly award multi-million-dollar contracts to firms that can expeditiously process millions of illegal immigrants, a government source has alerted Judicial Watch.”
“The complex deal is being rushed through at a ‘full-throttle pace’ extremely rare for such a huge venture that’s sure to radically change the current system, according to JW’s source, who has worked for decades as a contract expert at the highest levels of government.
“The pricing spreadsheets are astounding and list tens of thousands of work hours – for tasks such as program management, file operations and maintenance as well as Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) scanning – that will undoubtedly end up costing American taxpayers enormous sums. The contractor that lands this monstrous government deal must also be able to respond on short notice to growth in volume due to urgent events and requirements,” JW reported.
Judicial Watch said the administration “appears to have no intention of slowing down while the Justice Department drafts an appeal.”
“JW’s government source confirms that, even after the court ruling, DHS is moving forward with its plan to seal large contracts with companies that will process millions of illegal [aliens] as soon as possible,” the report said. [emphases added]
I've said it many times over the past two-plus years, although it may have been awhile since the last time, so let me refresh everybody's memories: How do you use the law to rein in a lawless president? Or, rather, a lawless president aided, abetted, and protected by a lawless party and media for whom winning by any means necessary, especially by steamrolling over the law and the Constitution, is their one and only ethic? A federal judge tells the White House to cease and desist, and they ignore him. If Senate Republicans grew the set we all wish they would and stared down the White House over the Obamnesty-defunding DHS appropriation, what would restrain or deter The One from simply stealing the money he needs from some other part of the budget? Or ordering Janet Yellen to print up the sum and truck it over to DHS? Or just tapping one or more of his countless-by-now slush funds?
The answer, of course, is absolutely nothing. Court orders can't stop him; the congressional power of the purse (which Republicans are too chicken to wield anyway, so you can obviously forget about any impeachment fantasies as well) can't stop him; NOTHING can stop him.
Sometimes I even wonder if the handful of 'Pubbies who we think of as constitutionalists even full "get" this:
The Times report Wednesday noted Senator Jeff Sessions, R-AL, described the administration’s latest move as “another program that has not been authorized by law.”
True; but then Senator Sessions completely loses focus on what the core issue - yet another constitutional crisis (or that's what this sort of thing USED to be called back in the day) - really is:
“There’s been no sense at all by President Obama, the Department of Home Security [Secretary] Jeh Johnson, the Democratic members of this Congress, no concern about the employment prospects of lawful immigrants, green card holders and native-born Americans,” Sessions told the Times. “The first thing we should do is be focusing on getting jobs for Americans that are unemployed. Are we going to keep Americans on welfare and benefits while we bring in more and more foreigners to take jobs when we've got Americans ready and willing to take those jobs?”
It's not that I disagree with what Senator Sessions says here, but this is a talking point for a comprehensive immigration reform debate, not somehow stopping a rampaging dictator who is cutting a swath through the separation of powers like Godzilla stomping a mudhole through Tokyo.
Okay, Osaka, but I didn't want a long vid to illustrate the point, and the Tokyo ones didn't fit that criterion.
Where was I? Ah, yes. Even the Tea Party's greatest hero doesn't appear to grasp the scale Obama's tyranny has reached:
Senator Ted Cruz, R-TX, also raised the issue of compliance with the court order, the newspaper said.
“Violating an unambiguous federal court order by defying its instructions to cease and desist a particular activity would represent a significant breach of your authority, and would be an escalation in abuse of our separation of powers,” Cruz wrote to administration officials. “For a president and his cabinet to telegraph intent to violate a federal court order requires additional scrutiny from Congress.” [emphasis added]
"Additional scrutiny from Congress"? The same Congress that is about to meekly fund that "abuse of the separation of powers? Besides, even if that non-threat actually meant anything in practical terms, what would it mean? Hearings. Months and months and months of hearings. By multiple committees, more than likely. And congressional oversight has been soooooo effective in reigning in Obama's "abuses of the separation of powers" to date, hasn't it?
But even if "additional scrutiny from Congress" was any kind of viable countermeasure, so what? The Regime is implementing Obamnesty NOW. They're not waiting for the appeals process, and they're not waiting for some Republican-chaired committee to issue a report sometime next spring or later that nobody will notice in the midst of the presidential campaign O may or may not allow to take place, and which they would simply ignore just as brazenly as they are Judge Hanen's injunction.
I'll quote President Andrew Jackson's verbal bird-flip to the SCOTUS once again: "Chief Justice Marshall has made his ruling; now let him enforce it." Somehow that despotic defiance has a certain rustic charm coming out of Old Hickory's mouth that it sorely lacks coming out of King Hussein's.
But what he lacks in tact, his White House more than makes up for in chutzpah:
But administration officials were unabashed in their intent.
The Times said Cecilia Munoz, White House domestic policy director, addressed the issue: “It’s important to put [Hanen's order] in context, because the broader executive actions are moving forward. The administration continues to implement the portions of the actions that the president and the Department of Homeland Security took, which were not affected by the court’s ruling.”
But Hanen’s order said: “The United States of America, its departments, agencies, officers, agents and employees and Jeh Johnson, secretary of the Department of Homeland Security; R. Gil Kerlikowske, commissioner of United States customs and Border Protection; Ronald D. Vitiello, deputy chief of United States Border Patrol, United States Customs and Border Protection; Thomas S. Winkowski, acting director of United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement; and Leon Rodriguez, director of United States Citizenship and Immigration Services are hereby enjoined from implementing any and all aspects or phases of the Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents.” [emphasis added]
When I learned the phrase "any and all" back in grade school, it still meant "includes everything and excludes nothing". Now, like every other word and every other jot and tittle of the law and the Constitution, they mean whatever Barack Obama says they mean on any given day.
And nobody can stop him from doing THAT, either.
All the way back on Election Night nearly four months ago I warned everybody that the next two (or more) years were going to be uglier than anybody, including myself, could ever imagine. He was, in his own words, liberated, free to be "the president he always wanted to be". And just think: he's still got a whole twenty-three months to go....
...at minimum. He's already completely ruling by imperial decree, and nobody can control or restrain him. Mark my words, the Twenty-Second Amendment won't be immune from his pen and phone either, folks. Not by a long shot.
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