Brooks: I Support Amnesty, But Obama’s Way an ‘Extreme Abuse of Exec. Power’

‘That strikes me as an extreme abuse of executive power, whether you support it on policy or not’

David Brooks: I Support Giving Illegals New Status, But Obama's Way An "Extreme Abuse Of Executive Power" (RealClearPolitics)

DAVID BROOKS, NEW YORK TIMES: Well, politically, they obviously made a mistake by thinking demographics could carry them along the way and they didn’t actually need issues. And that was a consultants’ fantasy. And that hurt the Democrats.

On President Obama, the immigration thing is important. I support the idea of giving all these people this new status. But doing it by executive functioning — function, executive action, redefining the status of millions of people without a law, without going through the normal process, that strikes me as an extreme abuse of executive power, whether you support it on policy or not.

And that is why that particular action that he’s talking about is so confrontational, because it’s not only policy a lot of Republicans object to it. But as members of Congress, they object to it.

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