Texas Gov.-elect Greg Abbott announced Wednesday that Texas is leading a 17-state coalition suing the Obama administration over the president's executive actions on immigration. The lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court in Texas on Wednesday, and names the heads of the top immigration enforcement agencies as defendants. Abbott, in a news conference in Austin, said the "broken" immigration system should be fixed by Congress, not by "presidential fiat." He said President Obama's recently announced executive actions -- a move designed to spare as many as 5 million people living illegally in the United States from deportation -- "directly violate the fundamental promise to the American people" by running afoul of the Constitution. "The ability of the president to dispense with laws was specifically considered and unanimously rejected at the Constitutional Convention," he said. Read more http://www.foxnews.com/politics/201...-17-states-against-obama-immigration-actions/
Laurence Tribe on Morning Joe this morning, [Mr Tribe is a Harvard Law Professor] said States cannot sue the executive branch of the federal government since 1923. Said the courts decided it then. MSNBC will no doubt have his interview on tape to watch. This is going nowhere.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arizona_v._United_States The state of Arizona sued the United States and won. That was a long time ago, though. 2012.
