Judge Hanen Again Refuses To Lift Obamnesty Injunction

by JASmius



....that the Obama Regime is ignoring anyway.  But, for a second reiterative time, Judge Hanen has made it pyrrhicly official:

A federal judge in Texas has refused to lift a temporary block on a White House immigration plan that would have shielded millions of illegal immigrants from deportation, court documents show. U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen in Brownsville, a city along the border with Mexico, rejected a U.S. Justice Department request to remove a ban on the plan he issued in February.

Twenty-six U.S. states filed a lawsuit alleging Obama had exceeded his powers with executive orders that would let up to 4.7 million illegal immigrants stay in the country without threat of deportation.

Instead of simply nullifying them, as Arizona is attempting to do.

Obama’s orders bypassed Congress....

Illegally.

....which has not been able to agree on immigration reform.

Which is the Legislative Branch's prerogative, as, per the U.S. Constitution, Congress is not just not subordinate to the Executive Branch, but is preeminent over it.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said in a statement on Tuesday that the Obama administration misled the court regarding early implementation of expanded work permits to illegal [alien]s. At issue was a U.S. government filing that said some 100,000 people had been given three-year periods of deferred action before the judge’s injunction.

“Any premature implementation could have serious consequences, inflicting irreparable harm on our State, and this ruling is key in determining the extent to which the federal government did not present the full truth in this case,” Paxton said.

To say nothing of the irreparable harm inflicted upon the Constitution and the rule of law.

We've had to put up with this lawlessness for so long, so many years, that even we can grow numbed by it, but let us reiterate: The Immigration Proclamation was and is unlawful.  Barack Obama does not have the legal authority to make law; the Constitution grants that power exclusively to Congress in Article I, Section 1.  Moreover, the POTUS is required, per Article II, Section 1, Clause 9, to "faithfully execute" ALL the laws of the United States by "preserving, protecting, and defending" the Constitution itself.  It isn't a statutory smorgasbord where O gets to pick and choose and replace the laws he likes at his whim.

What Obama has done - and one of his legacies will be - is to sever power from that legal authority.  He promulgated the Immigration Proclamation not because he was legally authorized to do so, but because he illegally and despotically seized the power to do so, in flagrant defiance of a supine Legislature.  And now he's blatantly defying a federal court order to cease and desist via the same template, reminiscent of President Andrew Jackson's famous quote: "Chief Justice Marshall has made his ruling; now let him enforce it".  Although I prefer Josef Stalin's dismissive comment about the moral authority of the Vatican: "How many divisions does the Pope have?"

As far as Barack Obama is concerned, there is nothing he can't do, law and Constitution be damned.  And, at least to the present time, he's been proven - repeatedly - correct.

Now do you understand why I question whether he'll obey the Twenty Second Amendment?  That's what all those illegal alien voting reinforcements are for, after all.