Ayup – and no surprise, either. Here, let me give you a hint:
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Senator John Cornyn, Senator Ted Cruz, Senator Lamar Alexander, Senator John Barrasso, Senator Roy Blunt, Senator John Boozman, Senator Shelley Moore Capito, Senator Bill Cassidy….
And yes, the list on that amicus brief is in alphabetical order. Amicus brief, you say, Skip? Ayup. What is it on? Oh, let’s just say it was something that our now Junior Senator Kelly Ayotte (R-NH) once campaigned really, really, really hard on. It was like she lived and breathed it when I saw her on the stump. Now? Not so much, I guess:
Forty-three U.S. senators presented a brief to the U.S. Supreme Court today arguing that President Barack Obama is seeking to “implement his policy preferences” in dealing with certain classes of illegal aliens “by the extra-constitutional assertion of a unilateral executive power. With millions of illegal aliens not permitted to remain in this country, work in this country, or receive government benefits pursuant to federal law, the Executive decided to provide such privileges to them anyway through administrative fiat,” says the brief.
The brief was filed in the case of United States v. Texas, which pits Texas and numerous other states against the Obama administration on the legality and constitutionality of the administration’s policy called the Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents. The brief was presented by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and 42 other senators.
Ayup, she ran hard on being anti-amnesty. And then once her butt hit her Senate seat, it started to evaporate. This is a big deal – lying.
You’d think being a lawyer and all, and a former Attorney General of NH and all, and a Senator sworn to uphold, protect, and defend the Constitution. But you know what’s even worse? This line: “by the extra-constitutional assertion of a unilateral executive power” from that amicus brief. You’d a thought, *I*’d a thought, that this would be a slam dunk. Protecting the Constitution and protecting the power of the US Senate in one fell swoop – great line for a re-election. Even if not all that heart-felt (based on her actions with her butt in that Senate seat) but a good line nonetheless.
So, her true feelings on Amnesty for illegal aliens comes to the fore (and no, given the relationship of Kelly Ayotte to the US Senate GOPe leadership, there is NO way of her not knowing about this). I’m just thinkin’ that she might have been hoping that we didn’t know anything about this.
Gotta live the ‘Net. Twenty or so years go, we wouldn’t have.
More from that post:
“The Executive Branch unilaterally created a program—known as DAPA—that will grant ‘lawful presence’ and eligibility for work permits to over four million aliens who are present in this country unlawfully,” said Texas’s petition.
“‘Lawful presence,’ an immigration classification established by Congress, allows aliens to receive numerous benefits—such as Medicare, Social Security, the Earned Income Tax Credit, and unemployment insurance,” the Texas brief explained. “And Congress has created a detailed, complex statutory scheme for determining when an alien may lawfully enter and be present in this country. The Executive claims the power to ignore these statutes and unilaterally deem lawful the presence of any unauthorized alien it chooses not to remove.”
“The President himself described DAPA as ‘an action to change the law,’” Texas notes in its petition.
“In reality, of course, DAPA is a crucial change in the Nation’s immigration law and policy—and that is precisely why it could be created only by Congress, rather than unilaterally imposed by the Executive,” said Texas.
So why is Kelly so easy on abandoning the power of the US Senate and so easily hand it over to the Executive Branch? Does The Rule of Law have a place on her priority list? Why isn’t she “jealously guarding” the US Senate’s turf and doing the job that NH sent her to do?
