If Obama Ignores the Federal Injunction Halting his Executive Immigration Amnesty Order, He Will Become a Renegade President

It is one thing for President Obama to prefer the company of Hawaii and Chicago friends, to head off to Hollywood or a golf course in his free time -- to avoid Congress and Washington powerbrokers. But, Barack Obama's dislike of Washington and its operating codes has become so profound that it is now clear that he not only dislikes Washington, he goes out of his way to antagonize the government of which he is the titular head, and in the process to trash the American rule of law under the Constitution. ~~~~~ We have had a frightening example of this in recent days as the question of Obama's illegal-immigrant executive orders moves to front and center. A senior House Democrat, Representative Luis Gutiérrez, who is from Illinois - one of the President's "home" states, said Wednesday that President Obama is considering a partial launch of his new deportation-relief programs, despite a federal court's recent decision to block them. Gutiérrez said the Obama administration is weighing whether it has the authority to initiate actions under the executive orders in the states not involved in the lawsuit against them. Texas and 25 other states have sued the President over the new programs, which would shield from deportation millions of immigrants living in the US llegally. The states are suing because they believe that Obama's executive orders are beyond a President's constitutional authority since they fundamentally amend laws already passed by Congress -- in practical terms, the President has become a "lawmaker," while the Constitution says that only the Congress can make laws. Obama has said that the administration will comply with the judge's ruling until an appeal decision is rendered. But, a dozen other states have filed court briefs in support of the executive programs, and immigration reform advocates are urging Obama to launch the initiatives in the 24 states not suing the White House. Gutiérrez took that argument a step further, suggesting the Texas ruling is limited only to Texas and that the programs could launch across the rest of the country. According to Gutiérrez, the administration is considering that option. “That's absolutely something the White House is looking at,” Gutiérrez said Wednesday during a press briefing in the Capitol : “I think it's a great idea to look at the lawsuit and to say, 'OK judge, since you think the harm is to Texas, why can't we proceed in the rest of the states of the union and set that one aside?’” The Illinois Democrat added : “I think that is a very worthy observation, and the White House - I know the advocates are on it - but I've got to tell you, President Barack Obama is on it, too. He's thinking about it, and the White House has been trying to figure out [if it's an option].” ~~~~~ Gutiérrez made his comments less than an hour after the President met at the White House with immigration reform advocates who are urging him to consider the partial implementation in the wake of the federal court ruling. That decision, handed down last week by US District Judge Andrew Hanen in Brownsville, Texas, put an immediate halt to a pair of executive programs Obama announced shortly after the midterm elections. The Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents program, known as DAPA, would halt deportations and offer work permits to the parents of US citizens and permanent legal residents. The other would expand Obama's 2012 program, the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) initiative, to a greater number of immigrants brought to the country illegally as kids. Texas and the other plaintiffs contend they would suffer exorbitant new costs under the programs, which they deem a case of executive constitutional overreach. Judge Hanen agreed and issued the injunction now being appealed to the Fifth US Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans. ~~~~~ Gutiérrez, the most vocal immigration reform advocate in Congress, who has often confronted Obama over the administration's deportation policies, was gushing with praise for the President yesterday concerning the White House's new approach to the Texas lawsuit. Gutiérrez said : “We have a lot of confidence in the President. He's moving forward.” Gutiérrez and other Democrats have been openly confident that Hanen’s ruling will ultimately be overturned and the executive programs will finally be adopted. “About the only thing that will change is the date of eligibility,” Representative Lloyd Doggett, a Texas Democrat, said Wednesday. Gutiérrez noted that the decision to block the pair of programs has not affected Obama's policy currently in place that focuses on deportations of criminals and other high-priority cases : “He's going to follow the ruling of the judge. He's going to follow the law, but that doesn't mean they're picking up Dreamers; that doesn't mean they're picking up American citizen children's parents. That's just not happening anymore.” Gutiérrez' response to Judge Hanen's injunction was vitriolic : "You may think you won today, but your victory is going to be short-lived, and November 2016 is coming right around the corner–and this will come back to haunt you.” Gutierrez urged illegal immigrants to get amnesty to punish Americans against illegal immigration at the ballot box. ~~~~~ Dear readers, does it not occur to you that President Obama has no time to meet with Israel Prime Minister Netanyahu about Iran's nuclear capabilities or with Speaker Boehner and Senate Majority Leader McConnell about the Department of Homeland Security budget impasse that Obama is orchestrating through Nancy Pelosi in the House and Harry Reid in the Senate -- but President Obama has plenty of time to invite immigration reform advocates to the White House to discuss the plan he is concocting to violate both the spirit and the letter of the law. That is what Obama is doing -- organizing immigration reform advocates and those in the Hispanic community who will follow to support him in his plan to violate the terms of a federal judge's order by ignoring it and pushing forward with his executive order amnesty plans. The penalty for violating a federal injunction is a fine or jail. But Obama seems unconcerned. Trash the federal court system. Trash the Constitution. What can possibly be next on this renegade President's agenda?