NYT Reporter: Legal Debate on Exec. Action Is ‘Between Pres. Obama and Pres. Obama’

‘— Now, two or three years later, he says “Actually, I do have the power to do [pass amnesty without Congress]”‘

“Actually, the debate has been between President Obama and President Obama. It was only a couple of years ago that President Obama was trying to flat pressure from immigration activists and from his left saying, 'Look, I don’t have the power to do what you guys want me to do.' And now he’s coming around two or three years later, he's got fresh legal opinions from the Justice Department saying, 'Actually I do have the power to do it.' And they’re going to go forward. I think at this point within the White House there’s a consensus that he does have this power -- obviously rejected by the Republicans -- and he’s going to go ahead probably as early as this week.”
 

 

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