11-10-2015, 12:02 PM
We're going to constantly see this occurring with the continued political climate of nothing but adversarial relationships across the aisle. Our executive branch will continue to overreach, as they have for well over a century now, and the courts will have to step in to reign them in when it is too egregious. Our Congress will overreach in its authority, like the foreign policy thing a while back, all because no one is willing to actually work together. I've had my reservations about this move by the POTUS from the beginning. I truly dislike when our government just chooses to ignore a law. If it is a bad law, do something to get rid of it. Otherwise, enforce it and shut up. Our federal code is filed with laws that either aren't, or cannot be, enforced.
I do have to agree, however, that it is rather humorous that when the courts agree with a side, they are just doing their job with checks and balances. But if they disagree, well, they are just the worst thing ever to happen to this country and they are legislating from the bench. I agree with their ruling on this. Laws are to be carried out (executed) by the executive branch. It is not up to the executive branch to choose what laws to enforce, only how to enforce them. And no, this does not mean the executive must defend the laws, IMHO. Defending them is not carrying them out.
I do have to agree, however, that it is rather humorous that when the courts agree with a side, they are just doing their job with checks and balances. But if they disagree, well, they are just the worst thing ever to happen to this country and they are legislating from the bench. I agree with their ruling on this. Laws are to be carried out (executed) by the executive branch. It is not up to the executive branch to choose what laws to enforce, only how to enforce them. And no, this does not mean the executive must defend the laws, IMHO. Defending them is not carrying them out.
