President Trump has signaled that he will announce an executive order ending DACA tomorrow, and, like clockwork, the attorneys general of New York and Washington state have announced that they will sue to stop that action. How bizarre is that?
DACA is not a law. It was created by president Obama through executive order. That means two important things: 1) Anything created by executive order can be terminated by the president rescinding the original order; and 2) the whole program is illegal since it was beyond the power of Obama to create it. So we have an illegally created program which the president has the absolute right to end, but two state attorneys general are about to sue when that happens. I realize that the AG in New York and the one in Washington are political showoffs who take steps more for publicity than for the legality of what they are doing. Nevertheless, it is truly bizarre that these fools would threaten litigation that will ultimately be lost. Sure, they might find a district court judge who is willing to make a political stand in support of DACA, but there's no way that the Supreme Court would even uphold the lawsuit against the program's being ended.
We already have so much political BS in this country, that we really did not need more. Nevertheless, that sometimes seems to be all we ever get.
DACA is not a law. It was created by president Obama through executive order. That means two important things: 1) Anything created by executive order can be terminated by the president rescinding the original order; and 2) the whole program is illegal since it was beyond the power of Obama to create it. So we have an illegally created program which the president has the absolute right to end, but two state attorneys general are about to sue when that happens. I realize that the AG in New York and the one in Washington are political showoffs who take steps more for publicity than for the legality of what they are doing. Nevertheless, it is truly bizarre that these fools would threaten litigation that will ultimately be lost. Sure, they might find a district court judge who is willing to make a political stand in support of DACA, but there's no way that the Supreme Court would even uphold the lawsuit against the program's being ended.
We already have so much political BS in this country, that we really did not need more. Nevertheless, that sometimes seems to be all we ever get.
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