{"id":20637,"date":"2014-05-07T16:28:07","date_gmt":"2014-05-07T20:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=20637"},"modified":"2014-05-07T16:28:07","modified_gmt":"2014-05-07T20:28:07","slug":"cruz-highlights-76-lawless-actions-by-obama-admin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/20637\/cruz-highlights-76-lawless-actions-by-obama-admin\/","title":{"rendered":"Cruz Highlights 76 Lawless Actions by Obama Admin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cruz.senate.gov\/?p=press_release&amp;id=1218\" target=\"_blank\">unveiled his fourth cataloguing<\/a> of the Obama administration\u2019s abuses of power.<\/p>\n<p>Among the 76 instances described, the Daily Caller <a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2014\/05\/07\/ted-cruz-releases-definitive-list-of-76-lawless-obama-actions\/#ixzz313TkwSXa\" target=\"_blank\">spotlights eight<\/a> that show the range and depth of the executive department\u2019s dereliction of duty:<\/p>\n<p>1.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cObama implemented portions of the DREAM Act by executive action\u201d<\/p>\n<p>2.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cEnded some terror asylum restrictions\u201d<\/p>\n<p>3.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cRecognized same sex marriage in Utah despite a Supreme Court stay on a court order allowing the institution\u201d<\/p>\n<p>4.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cIllegally revealed the existence of sealed indictments in the Benghazi investigation\u201d<\/p>\n<p>5.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cIllegally delayed ObamaCare verification of eligibility for healthcare subsidies\u201d<\/p>\n<p>6.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cOrdered Boeing to fire 1,000 employees in South Carolina and shut down a new factory because it was non-union\u201d<\/p>\n<p>7.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cTerminated the pensions of 20,000 non-union Delphi employees in the GM bankruptcy\u201d<\/p>\n<p>8.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cGovernment agencies are engaging in \u2018Operation Choke Point,\u2019 where the government asks banks to \u2018choke off\u2019 access to financial services for customers engaging in conduct the Administration does not like \u2013 such as \u2018ammunition sales.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As this partial listing makes clear, good luck finding an example where the Obama administration has flouted the law to favor conservatives and obstruct liberals.<\/p>\n<p>Download the full report (pdf) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cruz.senate.gov\/files\/documents\/The%20Legal%20Limit\/The%20Legal%20Limit%20Report%204.pdf \" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) unveiled his fourth cataloguing of the Obama administration\u2019s abuses of power. Among the 76 instances described, the Daily Caller spotlights eight that show the range and depth of the executive department\u2019s dereliction of duty: 1.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cObama implemented portions of the DREAM Act by executive action\u201d 2.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cEnded some terror asylum [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1843,4495,24,35,2594,2890,4175,1051],"class_list":["post-20637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-dream-act","tag-marriage","tag-obama","tag-obamacare","tag-rule-of-law","tag-ted-cruz","tag-terror","tag-union"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20637"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20643,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20637\/revisions\/20643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}