(November 22, 2014 at 1:56 am)Jaysyn Wrote: The great thing is that it's all legal. The executive has prosecutorial discretion, that's very well established law.
NewRepublic Wrote:The president’s broad prosecutorial discretion has been repeatedly recognized by the courts. In 2013, Judge Brett Kavanaugh of the D.C. Circuit, appointed by George W. Bush, offered a strong defense: “The president may decline to prosecute certain violators of federal law just as the president may pardon certain violators of federal law,” Judge Kavanaugh wrote. “The president may decline to prosecute or may pardon because of the president’s own constitutional concerns about a law or because of policy objections to the law, among other reasons.”
So...
How's that petard?
If he is changing the criteria upon which papers and work authorizations are granted then he is not on such a firm legal footing.
Anyways, Obama is taking prosecutorial discretion to a whole new level and I think Penn Jillete explains why you should not be happy.
