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Executive overreach
A draft memo surfaced from the Dept. of Homeland Security suggesting ways to administratively circumvent existing law to allow several categories of illegal immigrants to avoid deportation and, indeed, for some to be granted permanent residency. The most disturbing thing about this was the reason for saying this. This was being proposed "in the absence of comprehensive immigration reform."
In another word, because Congress wasn't doing what these bureaucrats would like done, they would legislate it themselves. It doesn't matter what or how you feel about it, this is not how a constitutional democracy, or more correctly a constitutional republic, should operate. When questioned about this, the White House played down the toxic memo. No surprise there. A 2007 Supreme Court ruling gave the Enviromental Protection Agency the authority to regulate carbon emissions if it could demonstrate that they threaten human health and the environment. The Obama EPA made precisely that finding, thereby granting itself a huge expansion of power and sending "a message to Congress."
In the modern welfare state, government has the power to regulate your life. That's bad enough, but at least there is one restraint, the separation of powers. Such constraints on your life must first be approved by both houses of Congress. That's called the consent of the governed. The constitutional order is meant to subject you to the will of the people's representatives, not to the whim of a chief executive or the imagination of a loophole-seeking bureaucrat.
What do you think?
Michael McMahon
Willcox
In another word, because Congress wasn't doing what these bureaucrats would like done, they would legislate it themselves. It doesn't matter what or how you feel about it, this is not how a constitutional democracy, or more correctly a constitutional republic, should operate. When questioned about this, the White House played down the toxic memo. No surprise there. A 2007 Supreme Court ruling gave the Enviromental Protection Agency the authority to regulate carbon emissions if it could demonstrate that they threaten human health and the environment. The Obama EPA made precisely that finding, thereby granting itself a huge expansion of power and sending "a message to Congress."
In the modern welfare state, government has the power to regulate your life. That's bad enough, but at least there is one restraint, the separation of powers. Such constraints on your life must first be approved by both houses of Congress. That's called the consent of the governed. The constitutional order is meant to subject you to the will of the people's representatives, not to the whim of a chief executive or the imagination of a loophole-seeking bureaucrat.
What do you think?
Michael McMahon
Willcox
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