Sessions to Congress: Block Obama’s Executive Orders on Amnesty, or Face Cantor’s Fate

‘Congressional action this week to bar unilateral, imperial action by the president is surely the best course to head off what could be a constitutional crisis’

Sessions to Congress: Block Obama’s Executive Orders on Amnesty, or Face Cantor’s Fate (National Review Online)

Senator Jeff Sessions (R., Ala.) offered “a warning for the more purely political” of his colleagues as Congress weighs whether to move on the president’s funding request on the border crisis: Don’t forget what happened to former House majority leader and now-outgoing Representative Eric Cantor.

“The results of recent primary elections show the American people are being roused to action, and once activated, their power will be felt — they will not be mocked,” Session said on the Senate floor on Monday. “They have begged, and pleaded for our nation’s immigration laws to be enforced for 30 or 40 years, and the politicians have refused.”

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