{"id":22084,"date":"2014-12-17T14:34:47","date_gmt":"2014-12-17T19:34:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=22084"},"modified":"2014-12-17T14:34:47","modified_gmt":"2014-12-17T19:34:47","slug":"fed-judge-says-obama%e2%80%99s-amnesty-unconstitutional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/22084\/fed-judge-says-obama%e2%80%99s-amnesty-unconstitutional\/","title":{"rendered":"Fed Judge Says Obama\u2019s Amnesty Unconstitutional"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A federal district judge has said that President Barack Obama\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/dailysignal.com\/2014\/12\/16\/federal-judge-obama-immigration-actions-unconstitutional\/?utm_source=heritagefoundation&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=morningbell&amp;mkt_tok=3RkMMJWWfF9wsRolu6%2FNZKXonjHpfsX56OsqW6O1lMI%2F0ER3fOvrPUfGjI4FSMBlI%2BSLDwEYGJlv6SgFQrLBMa1ozrgOWxU%3D \" target=\"_blank\">amnesty program for illegal immigrants violates the U.S. Constitution<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The only question: Does it matter?<\/p>\n<p>Judge Arthur Schwab, a George W. Bush appointee, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/volokh-conspiracy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2014\/12\/Juarez-Escobar.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">issued a ruling<\/a> yesterday saying that, \u201cPresident Obama\u2019s executive action goes beyond prosecutorial discretion because: (a) it provides for a systematic and rigid process by which a broad group of individuals will be treated differently than others based upon arbitrary classifications, rather than case-by-case examination; and (b) it allows undocumented immigrants, who fall within these broad categories, to obtain substantive rights.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, however, Judge Schwab\u2019s declaration may be little more than a non-binding advisory opinion. According to conservative law professor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/volokh-conspiracy\/wp\/2014\/12\/16\/district-court-declares-obama-immigration-action-unconstitutional\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jonathan Adler<\/a> \u2013 one of the <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/index.php\/commentary\/56-health-care\/1573-irs-rewrites-obamacare-to-increase-taxes- \" target=\"_blank\">originators of the ObamaCare subsidies challenge<\/a> now before the U.S. Supreme Court \u2013 Schwab\u2019s ruling came after he requested supplemental briefing in a case trying to decide how to sentence an illegal immigrant for a non-immigration-related crime. Apparently, Schwab wanted to know if the defendant qualified for protection from deportation under Obama\u2019s plan. Schwab then used the occasion to find the amnesty program unconstitutional.<\/p>\n<p>While legal experts like Adler try to figure out how much to make of this opinion, Schwab\u2019s ruling points to a larger issue. Namely, that major policy changes have major policy implications. For example, legal immigrants are finding out that <a href=\"http:\/\/townhall.com\/tipsheet\/katiepavlich\/2014\/12\/11\/cruel-reality-obama-paying-for-illegal-amnesty-with-fees-paid-by-legal-immigrants-n1930521 \" target=\"_blank\">creating exceptions for illegals increases the costs on the law-abiding<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Time will tell if Obama\u2019s amnesty program has a negative impact on the federal court system as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A federal district judge has said that President Barack Obama\u2019s amnesty program for illegal immigrants violates the U.S. Constitution. The only question: Does it matter? Judge Arthur Schwab, a George W. Bush appointee, issued a ruling yesterday saying that, \u201cPresident Obama\u2019s executive action goes beyond prosecutorial discretion because: (a) it provides for a systematic and [&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":[515,143,144,4226,1238,1553,981,35],"class_list":["post-22084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-amnesty","tag-barack-obama","tag-constitution","tag-court","tag-deportation","tag-illegal","tag-immigration","tag-obamacare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22084","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=22084"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22089,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22084\/revisions\/22089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}