President Obama not only caused the current border crisis—since the year before his announced unwillingness to deport minors as required by law, the rate of minors illegally emigrating from Central America has risen about 20-fold (from about 300 to 6,000 per month)—but he also ignored warnings it was coming.
The Washington Post, July 19, 2014Hiding its intentions under mountains of regulatory paperwork, the Obama administration is trying to bribe insurers to keep premiums from going even higher in 2015.
Forbes, July 14, 2014The crisis—or invasion—taking place on our border is a direct result of President Obama’s lawless decree that he won’t deport young illegals and his wider refusal to provide interior enforcement of immigration laws.
The Weekly Standard, July 21, 2014The House of Representatives should be focused on defending its own turf using its own powers, not on encouraging government by judiciary—which would do further and more lasting damage to the separation of powers.
The Weekly Standard, July 14, 2014President Obama’s position is that the desire to push policies that are political losers justifies taking the law into one’s own hands.
The Weekly Standard, July 2, 2014A desire to advance policies that are political losers doesn’t justify violating the constitutional separation of powers.
The Weekly Standard, June 13, 2014With an assist from five activist justices, President Obama’s EPA is basically rewriting federal law in imposing coal-plant limitations that Congress never passed and never would have supported.
Bloomberg, June 9, 2014
Liberal law professor Jonathan Turley warns that, under President Obama, “unfortunately, our system is changing, and it’s changing without a debate,” from a system that protects against “the concentration of power” to one where “the president can act unilaterally” and “not comply with federal law.”
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After President Obama said he would veto House-passed legislation to delay the individual mandate, he lawlessly delayed the mandate on his own.
The Weekly Standard, May 7, 2014
Senator Cruz calls out President Obama on his lawless refusal to implement Obamacare as written.
The Federalist Society, May 7, 2014President Obama’s own administration isn’t abiding by his signature legislation.
The Weekly Standard, April 24, 2014A self-professed “data-driven” administration makes it essentially impossible to use Census figures to examine the effects of the most consequential legislation of our day.
Bloomberg, April 15, 2014A major reason why men and women don’t make the same incomes is they choose different career fields, but sometimes even when they choose the same fields—say, when both become White House staffers—the disparity remains.
American Enterprise Institute, April 9, 2014President Obama is right: “In the end, history is not kind to those who would deny Americans their basic economic security.”
The Weekly Standard, April 7, 2014
The president doesn’t get to declare when public debates are over.
The Weekly Standard, April 2, 2014