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Louie Gohmert: We got word earlier this afternoon that President Obama intends to issue an oral decree followed by a written decree--as…

On the recordNovember 19, 2014
We got word earlier this afternoon that President Obama intends to issue an oral decree followed by a written decree--as any good monarch would--indicating that he has decided to change the law regarding immigration. An article here from The Washington Post has a quote from Secretary Jeh Johnson, the Secretary of Homeland Security, which he says: ``Legislative action is always preferable,'' Johnson said, ``but we have waited for Congress to act, and the Congress has not acted. The President has waited.'' That is what leaders in places like Venezuela--many places historically where that statement has been made, we have waited for parliament or the legislature or Congress to change the law. They didn't do as we dictated to Congress they had to do, and therefore, we have decided to change the law. This President is creating a constitutional crisis, and it happens when a President is allowed to continue pushing the envelope and pushing the envelope and exceeding the envelope, and you have an incorrigible opinion written--as the majority for the Supreme Court did on ObamaCare--that is the height of hypocrisy. How the Supreme Court majority could say, on page 14 and 15, that the mandated penalty in ObamaCare was not a tax--the Supreme Court said if it were a tax, of course, under the anti-injunction statute many decades old, we would not have jurisdiction--plaintiffs wouldn't have standing.…
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Louie Gohmert
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Nov 19, 2014

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