Statements about Legal Issues
Says the Constitution "specifically states the Congress shall write legislation for immigration policy," so Barack Obama lacks the authority to defer the deportation of young illegal immigrants.
"Under current law, if you go on a dating website and you say you're 32 and you're actually 42, you've committed a misdemeanor."
Barack Obama has "provided guns to Mexican drug cartels."
Decriminalizing marijuana "will save the state anywhere from $4 (million) to $11 million dollars."
Says lawyer appointed by Eric Holder to investigate government leaks helped and donated to Obama's campaign, vetting vice presidential prospects.
In 2011, Alabama and Massachusetts passed legislation allowing non-citizens who are legal residents to vote in state and local elections.
"Jimmy Langevin is having a fundraiser . . . to retire the debt from his campaign for secretary of state, which was 12 years ago."
"A Florida judge ruled parts of Obamacare unconstitutional."
Says Gov. Scott Walker said "no to equal pay for equal work for women."
"When these [undocumented] students graduate from college, they're still illegal aliens. They cannot get a job."
Wisconsin women "are paid 81 cents to the dollar of a man doing the same job."
The Wisconsin law repealed by Republicans, which allowed discriminated workers to sue in state court, "was kind of a gravy train" for lawyers.
"Just on Jan. 1 of this year, there were 40,000 new laws put on the books in one day."
Under a new law, doctors performing drug-induced abortions could be charged if women don’t return to them for follow-up care
"We’ve got four Supreme Court justices who … signed their name to a declaration that Americans have no fundamental right to self-defense."
Says Ted Cruz represents a Chinese company found guilty of stealing blueprints from an American manufacturer.
Says his Texas election fraud investigations have resulted in 50 convictions.
Says Wisconsin women facing pay discrimination can't "do something about it" under bill passed by Republicans.
If the Supreme Court throws out the federal health care law, it "would be an unprecedented, extraordinary step of overturning a law that was passed by a strong majority of a democratically elected Congress."
Says she "created the first felony deferred prosecution program for nonviolent first-offenders" in Texas.
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