Court Rules Against Obama Immigration Executive Order

Once again, President Obama, the self-professed professor of constitutional law, gets reeled back to reality.  This time he got schooled by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. The federal court effectively said no to Obama’s unconstitutional power grab. In a clear victory for the separation of powers, the federal court backed up an earlier decision made by a lower district court. With this ruling, it agreed that the claim brought by 26 states has merit. In a victory for law-abiding taxpayers in those 26 states, the federal court has blocked the Obama administration from implementing amnesty and opening up the federal trough and taxpayer-funded government services to nearly 5 million foreigners living illegally in the United States.

FoxNews points out:

The 2-1 decision by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans further dims the prospect of implementation of the executive action before Obama leaves office in 2017. Appeals over the injunction could take months. Depending on how the case unfolds, the injunction could even go back to the Texas federal court for more proceedings.

Republicans had criticized the plan as an illegal executive overreach when Obama announced it last November. Twenty-six states challenged the plan in court. U.S. District Court Judge Andrew Hanen granted the temporary injunction preventing the order’s implementation this past February, agreeing with the states that legalizing the presence of so many people would be a “virtually irreversible” action that would cause the states ‘irreparable harm.’

Let’s be clear. Whether it’s granting amnesty to illegal immigrants or unilaterally shutting down GITMO and transferring foreign enemy prisoners to U.S. soil, President Obama does not have the constitutional or legal authority to circumvent lawmakers elected by the American people. He does not have omnipotent authority to ignore the rule of law. The president of the United States needs to honor the will of the American people and do so by securing the consent of Congress.

What’s more, it’s a win, win, win for law-abiding citizens, American workers and U.S. taxpayers.