"the Constitution in its opening line, right after the Preamble in Article I, Section 1 says that all legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in the Congress which shall consist of a Senate a..."
"To legislate is to make rules, rules carrying the force of generally applicable law."
"Here with this Executive order we have what is in effect a piece of legislation. It didn't go through Congress."
"whether you are a Republican or a Democrat, whether you are a liberal or a conservative, whether you are pro-immigration reform or anti-immigration reform, especially if you are a Member of Congress, ..."
"I was personally somewhat concerned when we got involved in military action in Libya without any prior consultation of Congress."
"Making sure there is a religious exemption here would not in my opinion cause either of the two problems that have been suggested."
"Congress is free, the Federal Government is free to grant religious exceptions and doing so does not amount to an establishment clause violation."
"These things happen not because we have had bad men as Presidents. We haven't, we have had good men, that includes our current President."
"We cannot ignore abuses of power because if we ignore them then they become part of the established practice and tradition within the constitutional system and that is dangerous."
"But when the executive branch contravenes, contradicts that policy as established in Federal statute, that we have the wrong body in effect legislating, the executive branch rather than the legislativ..."
"Political philosophers for centuries have believed that centralization of power brings about an unacceptable risk of tyranny."
"When the Administration starts to overstep its bounds and uses administrative agencies in a way that restricts on fundamental First Amendment freedoms you are seeing a serious problem and you are seei..."