Louie Gohmert: “On Monday, being argued before the United States Supreme Court--the eight Justices remaining--is a case of United States…”

“On Monday, being argued before the United States Supreme Court--the eight Justices remaining--is a case of United States v. Texas. It will take up the President's--I started to say his ``executive order,'' but, actually, in the case of His Majesty's program on amnesty, there actually was no executive order that was signed by the President. Like you find in a lot of countries around the world where there is a dictator, there was a speech made and comments made by the ruler. Then the Secretary of Homeland Security--in our case, Secretary Johnson--wrote a series of memos to carry out the dictation from on high, and they overrode the laws that were duly passed by both Houses of Congress and by previous Presidents. That is where we run into some trouble. That is where you run into trouble in doing what Benjamin Franklin suggested might be possible to undo. As we know, a lady asked him at the Constitutional Convention, ``What did you give us?'' and he said, ``A Republic, Madam, if you can keep it.'' One of the ways you do not keep representative government-- self-government through the electing of Representatives to do the will of the people--is to go and have those elections and elect people who pass laws--I mean, the Founders wanted government to have gridlock. As I mentioned before, Justice Scalia, in talking to a group of 50 or so senior citizens from my district, explained that the reason we are the freest country in history--or at least we used to be.…”