The President, Immigration Law, Constitutional Law and the Supreme Court

As this article is being written our nation’s president is preparing to go before the nation to announce that he will unilaterally change the currently established immigration law and with the stroke of his pen, he will provide immediate amnesty to millions of people who have broken that immigration law. He has said that he is going to do this because he believes the law needs to be changed and congress has not responded to his personal values and beliefs. He will state, therefore, that he is justified in doing so. His sworn oath of office speaks to the contrary: "I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."  We are a nation of laws and I believe the actions of this president are, without question, the execution of a planned political power grab and I believe this action is constitutionally wrong and should not be permitted. 

This article is intended as a reminder to all of you that the design for this nation provides us with a safety net to be used to examine presidential actions and determine their validity. Our government exists only for the people not for political vanity, posturing or individual power. This is what we are. The teachers I experienced in my youth carefully described in great detail a government of written laws designed to make and keep us free.

The Preamble to our Constitution reads as follows: “We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, Insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence (sic), promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution of the United states of America.”

The plan for this nation was not accidental. It was diligently studied, discussed and written. Our constitution established three equal branches of leadership. Each branch has specific written powers and responsibilities and each was designed to prevent the rise of absolute power in any of the other branches. If that horror were to happen then all of the efforts of the framers to secure freedom for them and us would have been in vain. These branches are: the Legislative, the Executive and the Judicial. I strongly urge, no, I demand that our nation’s Supreme Court, the third and often forgotten branch, to immediately exercise its appointed duty and powers and proceed to closely examine the stated goals and actions of our president in the light of constitutional law. The court’s justices must immediately determine for him and all of the members of the Legislative branch and all of the people of this nation that what he has chosen to do is either legal or not legal. Failure to act as they were intended runs the risk of a great tearing of the fabric of our constitution and a very large step toward the end of our days as a nation.