Texas Gov: SCOTUS to Decide if Obama can Write Laws, Completely Stripping the Constitution and Congress of Authority

Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott said that the U.S. Constitution will be “completely rewritten” if the Supreme Court sides with President Obama in the lawsuit challenging his executive action on immigration.

Abbott, formerly the state’s longest-serving attorney general, told reporters Thursday morning that the lawsuit brought against the president by Texas and 25 other states is “framed under” the issue of immigration but in reality challenges Obama’s use of executive power to “unilaterally” rewrite laws.

“The lawsuit is about the fact that the president completely abandoned the Constitution to assume power he does not have and wrote law that he himself, as a constitutional lawyer, said he did not have the power to do,” Abbott said during a roundtable discussion at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C.

“The lawsuit is about the fact that, if the president wins this lawsuit, the Constitution as we know it has been completely rewritten and Congress no longer has any authority.”

Obama unveiled his executive action, which would prevent millions of illegal immigrants from being deported and allow many of them to obtain work permits, following the November 2014 election. A few months later, more than half of the nation’s states sued the president, arguing that his administration overstepped its constitutional authority.

The Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the case on Monday and appeared divided. Abbott expressed concern that some of the justices on the court are playing “naked politics,” which he said could hurt Texas’ chances of winning the case.

“Before Justice [Antonin] Scalia passed away, I felt our chances were good. If the court were solely to rule on the basis of the law … then it should be now an 8-0 decision. Because politics is being played now at the Supreme Court, I think the best outcome is a 4-4 split decision, which will mean that we will win, but it will not be a broad-based application across the United States affirming the principle that the president does not have unilateral authority to rewrite the law,” Abbott said.

A 4-4 tie ruling would leave in place an appeals court ruling that put a hold on Obama’s plan but would set no Supreme Court precedent.

The liberal faction of the court is creating a legal fiction by pretending that Texas and other states have no standing in the case. They claim there is no financial damage to Texas resulting from Obama’s illegal action, with the sole objective of keeping the case from moving forward. Unimpeded illegal immigration certainly has financial consequences to the various states, but the real objective of the liberal justices is to undermine the Constitution and to give the president virtually unlimited power to issue mandates and edicts at will.  Congress would then have no reason to exist, and we would have a virtual monarchy. The partisanship of these leftist justices is stunning, and it would be worthwhile reminding them that what goes round comes around. The difference, of course, is that the right believes in the Constitution and the rule of law, so perhaps this position by the Left is a good bet.

Gov. Abbott is right, however, and the game the Leftists on the court are playing could completely undo the foundation of the United States legal system and the balance provided by the separation of powers that has served this nation so well. Their tombstones may very well read “They hated this nation and led it to its own destruction.”

Source: freebeacon.com