he would have failed my constitutional law class if he had tried to justify such sweeping authority to categorically rewrite existing law and confer benefits Congress never provided as “prosecutorial discretion.”
I think his reputation as a Constitutional (or any other kind of) scholar is highly overrated. It’s nice to see the courts finally stepping up to rein in these power grabs.
[Update a while later]
The “I” word is really the only remedy to this kind of overreach.
But partisan politics takes precedence over Congressional prerogatives.
It’s bull, anyway. He was an adjunct, not a tenure-track professor. And what are his publications? Legal scholars publish.
“Meanwhile, according to Newsbusters, the “big three” — ABC, CBS, and NBC — neglected to mention in their newscasts what amounts to another humiliating defeat for the Obama administration.”
Must be nice to have a state controlled media.