By Robert Laurie ——Bio and Archives--December 4, 2014
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A coalition of 17 U.S. states sued the Obama administration on Wednesday saying it acted illegally by issuing an executive order to ease the threat of deportation for millions of immigrants who are in the country without the proper documents. The case being led by Texas and filed at the Federal Court in the Southern District of Texas said the executive order announced by Obama last month violated constitutional limits on presidential powers. Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott, a Republican and the Texas governor-elect, said the lawsuit is not asking for monetary damages but is seeking to have the order declared illegal.More specifically....
The lawsuit raises three objections: that Obama violated the "Take Care Clause" of the U.S. Constitution that limits the scope of presidential power; that the federal government violated rulemaking procedures; and that the order will "exacerbate the humanitarian crisis along the southern border, which will affect increased state investment in law enforcement, health care and education."The following states are currently involved in the suit. It's possible that more will join soon.
"We expect the federal government to have to respond in about two weeks with the court setting an aggressive timetable and there are several reasons for that. For one, Texas earlier this week made an additional multimillion-dollar appropriation to deal with the consequences of this action. The second, we will ask a court to rule before the effectiveness of the order that have been issued by the agencies that are fulfilling what we consider to be Barack Obama’s illegal executive order."
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