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Search results for "Only the executive branch has prosecutorial power"

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John Carter stated on June 18, 2012 in a radio interview.:
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.
By W. Gardner Selby• June 27, 2012
Lamar Smith stated on July 12, 2011 in a legislative proposal.:
On applying prosecutorial discretion to immigration cases.
By W. Gardner Selby• August 7, 2011
Roy Moore stated on September 21, 2017 in a debate:
DACA was "a mere memo from the Department of Homeland security under Barack Obama, which violated the laws."
By Joshua Gillin, Miriam Valverde• September 22, 2017
Marco Rubio stated on August 13, 2013 in a radio interview:
Says President Barack Obama could "basically" legalize all immigrants here illegally "by the sign of a pen."
By Katie Sanders• August 22, 2013
Facebook posts stated on January 22, 2022 in a Facebook post:
President Joe Biden gave Congress an exemption from vaccine mandate
By Jeff Cercone• January 25, 2022
Mike Huckabee stated on May 24, 2015 in an interview on "Fox News Sunday":
The Supreme Court "can’t overrule the other two" branches of government.  
By Lauren Carroll• May 29, 2015
Barack Obama stated on November 16, 2014 in a press conference in Australia.:
"My position hasn’t changed" on using executive authority to address immigration issues.
By Steve Contorno• November 20, 2014
Jeff Sessions stated on April 14, 2013 in comments on ABC's "This Week with George Stephanopoulos":
Says President Barack Obama "has allowed, each year he's been here, the prosecutions of gun cases (for background check failures) to go down. ... They've declined every year since President Bush left office."
By Louis Jacobson• April 16, 2013
Dave Obey stated on November 18, 2010 in a statement to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
A ban on earmarks greatly weakens the authority Congress has over spending, to the benefit of the executive branch.
By Dave Umhoefer• December 1, 2010
X posts stated on August 16, 2024 in a video:
Video shows “Kamala Harris describing how she can ruin lives with the 'swipe of a pen.’"
By Kwasi Gyamfi Asiedu• August 30, 2024
Eric Schneiderman stated on September 06, 2017 in an interview on The Rachel Maddow Show:
"No court has held (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) unconstitutional."  
By Miriam Valverde• September 11, 2017
Bloggers stated on June 21, 2017 in a blog:
Spicer: "Trump has the legal right to cancel SCOTUS because they serve at his pleasure"
By Manuela Tobias• July 6, 2017
Newt Gingrich stated on December 18, 2011 in an interview on CBS' "Face the Nation":
In a watershed 1958 decision, "the Warren court asserted by itself that the Supreme Court was supreme over the president and the Congress."
By Louis Jacobson• December 20, 2011
Nancy Pelosi stated on July 29, 2014 in a fundraising letter:
"The House of Representatives has never sued a sitting president in all of U.S. history."
By Louis Jacobson• July 31, 2014
Hillary Clinton stated on December 13, 2007 in debate in Johnston, Iowa:
"George Bush ... used a signing statement (on a FEMA bill) to say, 'I don't have to follow that, unless I choose to.' "
By Michael Van Sickler• December 17, 2007
Nicholas Gorham stated on December 30, 2013 in a newspaper commentary:
The General Assembly "has no explicit constitutional authority to impose income, sales, estate and the myriad of other taxes upon us."
By John Hill• January 19, 2014
Lincoln Chafee stated on September 22, 2013 in a television interview:
Forty-six states have a line-item veto for the governor.
By Gregory Smith• October 6, 2013
Public Citizen stated on July 10, 2009 in an email to supporters:
A loophole "still exists which allows members of Congress and high-powered executive branch appointees to exploit 'insider' knowledge of the financial industry in order to turn personal profit."
By Catharine Richert• August 6, 2009
Barack Obama stated on June 17, 2013 in an interview with Charlie Rose:
The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court "is transparent."
By Louis Jacobson• June 21, 2013
Debra Medina stated on January 29, 2010 in a Republican gubernatorial debate:
"The governor’s not taking his own fiscal advice. ... In the first fiscal quarter of this year, we’ve seen a 13.5 percent increase in spending, double-digit spending out of the executive branch in the State of Texas."
By Meghan Ashford-Grooms• February 8, 2010

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Courts are still debating the legality of DACA

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Trump classified documents case: What’s next after Judge Aileen Cannon’s dismissal

By Jeff Cercone• July 15, 2024

Truth-O-Meter passes on claim about 10th Amendment

By Willoughby Mariano• September 10, 2011

Biden, so far, has signed fewer executive orders than Trump

By Ranjan Jindal• July 5, 2024

Read the articles of impeachment House Democrats have introduced against President Donald Trump

By Angie Drobnic Holan• December 10, 2019

Was the storming of the US Capitol a coup? An academic group now says yes

By Louis Jacobson• February 1, 2021

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By Louis Jacobson, John Kruzel• July 21, 2017

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By W. Gardner Selby• February 13, 2012

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