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    Boehner to Sue Obama, Again (over his executive orders on immigration)

    Boehner to Sue Obama, Again

    The speaker is planning to hold a House vote authorizing a suit against the president over his executive orders on immigration.

    BY DANIEL NEWHAUSER


    January 27, 2015

    Speaker John Boehner is finalizing a plan to sue President Obama again, this time over the administration's decision to grant work visas to millions of undocumented immigrants.
    Boehner told his conference at a closed-door meeting Tuesday morning that he has a team exploring the best options to challenge last year's executive action, under which the Homeland Security Department will begin granting legal working status to millions of immigrants, according to sources in the room."Our team has been working on litigation. We are finalizing a plan to authorize litigation on this issue—one we believe gives us the best chance of success," he said, according to a source in the room.The move toward a lawsuit comes as the GOP's legislative options to target the president's policies are waning. The House passed a bill funding DHS that contained provisions rolling back Obama's executive action and other administrative relaxations of immigration enforcement, including deferred action for childhood arrivals, otherwise known as Dreamers. But the bill faces an uncertain future in the Senate, where the immigration-related measures are thought not to have the requisite Democratic support to exceed the 60-vote filibuster threshold.If the bill comes back to the House with less-stringent measures targeting the White House's immigration policy — or, indeed, none at all — it is unclear that it can pass the chamber. So challenging the president in venue other than the Capitol could assuage GOP House members who have said unequivocally that they do not want to move any other immigration measures until the president's actions are dealt with.

    It is unclear whether a congressional lawsuit would also challenge the deferred action for childhood arrivals policy, which has already put off deportation for more than a half- million undocumented immigrants. The House would have to vote on a resolution authorizing legal action, and that could come in the form of its own lawsuit, or in the form of joining an existing suit challenging Obama's actions.
    Boehner's comments come a day after GOP leaders decided to pull a border-security measure from House consideration. Leadership aides said the snowy weather and a short legislative week were to blame, but the measure faced problems of its own, namely from conservatives who think it does not go far enough to shore up interior enforcement.At a press conference Tuesday, Boehner acknowledged that outstanding issues need to be dealt with, ones that are beyond the Homeland Security Committee's jurisdiction."We're going to have to walk through all of this with our members," he said, "and when we're ready to move, we will."A new group of about 30 House conservatives named the House Freedom Caucus met Monday night, and the near-unanimous sentiment in the private meeting was that any border-security bill should not be moved without a companion bill that shores up enforcement within the nation's borders. Others still said that no immigration bills should be rushed to the floor until there is some finality on whether the pending DHS bill can block Obama's actions, meaning a bill would not come until March. Funding for DHS runs out Feb. 27."There's a growing body of people that are sick and tired of the, 'Trust me, we'll do it later approach' and want us to deal with both interior enforcement and border security at the same time," said Rep. Matt Salmon, a House Freedom Caucus founding member.Ultimately, though, Rep. Tom Cole, a Boehner ally, said discussions will continue next week, with the bill to be put to the floor sooner rather than later—and that members are unlikely to vote against a border-security bill.ISS TO

    "We've always said we're going to do this piece by piece, so you can't take that position and then turn around and try and do a comprehensive bill," Cole said. "That's not what we believe in. We believe in rifle-shot legislation."Any lawsuit from Congress targeting White House immigration policy would not be alone in the courts. More than half of the states, led by Texas, have already sued, challenging in federal court whether Obama's directives should be allowed to go into effect. Other states and cities have filed briefs in the case defending the action.Late last year, a federal judge threw out another, similar case, filed by Arizona's Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio and an immigration activist.The House is already suing the administration on another issue. Last year, the chamber voted along party lines to authorize a lawsuit challenging, among other parts of the law, the legality of Obama's delay of a rule mandating that employers provide health insurance to their workers.

    BOEHNER TAKES OBAMA TO TASK FOR HIS WORDS

    "And I quote," Rep. John Boehner started his many recitations of the president's quotes about respecting the Constitution.(C-SPAN)

    Rachel Roubein contributed to this article.

    http://www.nationaljournal.com/congr...again-20150127
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    Boehner To Sue Obama Over Executive Amnesty

    by Caroline May
    27 Jan 2015

    House Speaker John Boehner announced plans to take legal action over President Barack Obama’s executive actions on immigration during Tuesday morning’s Republican conference meeting, according to reports.

    “Our team has been working on litigation. We are finalizing a plan to authorize litigation on this issue—one we believe gives us the best chance of success,” Boehner said, a source in the room told National Journal.

    The announcement of potential legal action against Obama’s executive amnesty comes a day after House leadership scrapped a vote this week on a controversial border security bill and the fate of the GOPs’s effort to block funding for Obama’s executive actions continue to face a steep uphill battle in the Senate.

    CNN reports that a House GOP leadership aide said that Boehner spoke about drafting “a resolution authorizing the House to take a variety of legal actions.”

    Twenty-six states are already suing over the executive actions. According to CNN the House could join onto the states’ effort or file a separate lawsuit.

    Last year House Republicans took Obama to court over the administration’s changes to Obamacare.

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    John Boehner suggests only courts can stop Obama amnesty, considers House lawsuit

    Potential legal action escalates tensions between congressional Republicans, White House

    By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times - Tuesday, January 27, 2015

    Speaker John A. Boehner told his House GOP colleagues Tuesday morning that a judge could be the only thing that can stop President Obama's deportation amnesties, in comments that signaled just how little power Republican leaders believe they have to push back against the White House's executive actions.

    Mr. Boehner suggested that the House itself could also end up joining the legal battle against Mr. Obama's immigration moves, further escalating tensions between congressional Republicans and the White House after last year's lawsuit challenging the legality of the president's executive actions on Obamacare.

    The possibility of a House lawsuit over immigration is the latest twist in a debate that stretches back years, has tremendous implications both politically and for the constitutional division of powers and has most recently twisted the GOP in knots as it tried to grapple with how to counter the president's executive actions.

    The House has already passed a homeland security spending bill that would halt both the 2012 and 2014 amnesties that could cover up to 5 million illegal immigrants, but that bill is likely to face a Democrat-led filibuster in the Senate and an eventual Obama veto, leaving GOP leaders scrambling for a backup plan.

    Senate Republicans said Tuesday they will push ahead with the House's bill, hoping to put Democrats on the spot.

    "This is an important fight to have," said Sen. Roy Blunt, Missouri Republican. "I think we should do everything we can to persuade at least a half-dozen Democrats that they should join us to get this done. Sometimes you don't know how these legislative battles go if you don't have them, and we intend to have this one."

    The latest polling suggests the GOP's stance is politically popular. Paragon Insights surveyed nearly 1,600 registered voters last week, and found a strong majority of 58 percent disapproved of Mr. Obama's new amnesty for illegal immigrant parents, compared to just 36 percent who supported it. And asked specifically about legislation to overturn the amnesty, voters backed it 53-36.

    Democrats, though, vowed to stick by Mr. Obama, with 45 Senate Democrats signing a letter Tuesday demanding the GOP drop its efforts to oppose the president and instead pass a "clean" homeland security funding bill.

    "Every day, new threats emerge that endanger our citizens at home and our allies abroad," they wrote. "We should not cast doubt on future funding for the Department of Homeland Security at a time when the entire nation should be marshaling collective resources to defend against terrorism."

    Republicans have had trouble finding unity on immigration and over how stiffly to push back against Mr. Obama.

    GOP leaders had hoped to hold a vote Wednesday on a bill to stiffen border security, but the measure proved too weak for many conservatives, who insisted it also expand interior enforcement. Republican leaders had to nix the vote and tasked the House Judiciary Committee with figuring out the right add-ons to build support for the bill.

    The Judiciary Committee on Tuesday announced a hearing next week to search for ideas on how to bolster interior enforcement.

    Mr. Boehner acknowledged he and his lieutenants have had some hiccups on the issue in the new Congress, which began this month.

    "Yeah, there've been a couple of stumbles, all in our effort to show the American people we're here to listen to their priorities," he said to reporters Tuesday morning after emerging from the closed-door meeting with GOP colleagues, where he told them he's considering taking legal action.

    Options include filing a new lawsuit against the Obama administration or joining one of the existing lawsuits, such as the one filed by Texas and joined by two dozen other states, which is challenging the amnesty for parents that Mr. Obama announced in November.

    Conservatives welcomed the idea of going to court.

    "I think we ought to join that lawsuit — fight this battle on more than one front," said Rep. Ted Poe, Texas Republican.

    Rep. Carlos Curbelo, a freshman Florida Republican who has broken with his party on immigration, also said he would be open to supporting a lawsuit, as long as it centers on the constitutional clash of powers rather than on attacking the president's immigration stance.

    "I need to see the lawsuit once it's drafted, and I think it is very important for the lawsuit to focus on the legality of action, setting aside the policy goals of the action. I support any effort to uphold the Constitution of the United States," he said.

    But Democrats said the GOP was showing weakness by "crawling to the courts."

    "Republicans control both houses of Congress, but Speaker Boehner still doesn't have the wherewithal to legislate," said Drew Hammill, spokesman for House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi. "House Republicans' latest lawsuit against the president is an embarrassing admission of failure."

    The Obama administration has made the same argument to the courts, telling a federal judge late Monday that the courts have no power to settle a dispute between the House and the president.

    "Fundamental principles of the separation of powers dictate that legislators should pursue their legislative options rather than using the courts to vent purely political grievances," wrote Joyce R. Branda, the acting assistant attorney general who is leading the legal team defending the administration against the GOP's lawsuit over Obamacare.

    In that case, the House said Mr. Obama overstepped his bounds when he announced a delay in penalties for Obamacare's employer mandate requiring most businesses to provide health coverage for employers. The president imposed the delay, even though he also had threatened to veto a House bill that would have done the same thing.

    Mr. Obama claimed prosecutorial discretion in saying he wouldn't enforce the mandate. Congressional Republicans argue that the law didn't give that kind of blanket power.

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    We would hope the Congress can stop this travesty, but I totally support pursuing all strategies and exploring all avenues. We need a full court press on this, united, unrelenting, and unforgiving.
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    Going to court will take forever. Congress needs to grow a spine and impeach obama! He is clearly disregarding the Constitution, and his actions are treasonous as well!
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    If Boehner was serious about stopping Obama he would announce impeachment proceedings and go for it.

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