Obama’s Immigration Action: Probably Legal But Also Unprecedented
Peter Suderman, Nov. 20, 2014, Reason
But if the last few years have proven anything it’s that the law isn’t necessarily what Obama says it is. As Reason’s Shikha Dalmia and Case Western Reserve University Law Professor Jonathan Adler have noted, the president has a great deal of authority to set enforcement priorities and exercise discretion when it comes to immigration law. Even some of the loudest critics of Obama’s action have come around to the idea that, at least technically, it would not exceed the president’s discretionary power, even if it would constitute an unusual and strained use of it.
Read more: www.reason.com
But if the last few years have proven anything it’s that the law isn’t necessarily what Obama says it is. As Reason’s Shikha Dalmia and Case Western Reserve University Law Professor Jonathan Adler have noted, the president has a great deal of authority to set enforcement priorities and exercise discretion when it comes to immigration law. Even some of the loudest critics of Obama’s action have come around to the idea that, at least technically, it would not exceed the president’s discretionary power, even if it would constitute an unusual and strained use of it.
Read more: www.reason.com
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