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Posted: May 3rd, 2018 - 10:35 am

Texas and six other states have filed a lawsuit claiming former President Barack Obama violated the Constitution’s take care clause when he created the program protecting immigrants brought to the country illegally as minors.

“If ever there were a violation of the president’s duty to ‘take care that the laws be faithfully executed,’ ” the lawsuit says, “this is it.” The suit, filed Tuesday in federal court in Brownsville, Texas, challenges the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program (DACA), created by Obama in 2012.

In prepared remarks, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said President Donald Trump has sought to phase out DACA, but “three activist judges” have blocked the cancellation. “That means that unelected federal judges are forcing the Trump administration to leave an unlawful program in place indefinitely as legal challenges drag on,” he said.

The suit seeks an order barring the federal government from issuing new DACA permits or renewing existing ones, as well as a declaratory judgment that DACA violates the take care clause and the Administrative Procedure Act.

Joining Texas in the lawsuit are Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Nebraska, South Carolina and West Virginia.

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7 states file suit claiming Obama violated the Constitution - ... (Views: 738, 2018-05-03, 10:35 am)
- States should have continued their legal challenge - DACA (Views: 426, 2018-05-03, 10:39 am)
  - Leftists don't care about America kids with dreams, only - illegals. It's totally unbelievable (Views: 392, 2018-05-04, 5:34 am)
  - Obama's action was absolutely illegal and the kangaroo - courts don't respect the law. (Views: 428, 2018-05-04, 9:11 am)
- Obama was a Constitution scholar. I think he knows more - what he's doing. nm (Views: 427, 2018-05-03, 5:08 pm)
  - Obama is not a Constitution scholar. That's a myth. - He was never a professor. (Views: 466, 2018-05-04, 3:03 am)
    - Keep reading those right wing - blogs (Views: 398, 2018-05-04, 8:01 am)
      - Obama was only a lecturer, not a professor. He CALLED - himself a constitutional professor (Views: 383, 2018-05-04, 8:51 am)
        Incorrect...Obama was a professor - . (Views: 377, 2018-05-05, 6:53 pm)
        Fact check? LOL - LOL LOL LOL (Views: 320, 2018-05-06, 3:16 am)
        Incorrect - he was never a professor - sm (Views: 318, 2018-05-06, 1:15 pm)
      - Truth is not right or left wing. He is not a constitutional - expert. (Views: 362, 2018-05-04, 8:53 am)
    - He was an affirmative action hire. Think, "if you like your - doctor, you can keep your doctor" (Views: 374, 2018-05-04, 8:55 am)
      - Along the line of affirmative action, the MCAT - is being politicized (the medical exam) (Views: 389, 2018-05-04, 12:12 pm)
        Cons don't believe in science, so - . (Views: 306, 2018-05-05, 6:43 pm)
    - Remember when he quoted the Declaration of Independence - but attributed it to the Constitution (Views: 439, 2018-05-04, 8:57 am)
  - Obama did not specialize in the Constitution. He cared about - and taught only about race. (Views: 377, 2018-05-04, 3:07 am)
    - The usual idiots are still spreading socialist propaganda - to prop up Obama. (Views: 403, 2018-05-04, 3:23 am)
  - Constitution restrains govt. Obama calls it "negative rights" - because he EXPANDED govt (Views: 440, 2018-05-04, 3:09 am)
    - An overly biased press also subverts the Constitution - and is the enemy of the republic. (Views: 547, 2018-05-04, 3:27 am)
  - You must be getting info from Snopes, that unreliable - "fact checking" site (Views: 397, 2018-05-04, 3:19 am)
  - Newspeak for fundamentally turning America into - a Banana Republic. (Views: 383, 2018-05-04, 7:36 am)
  - Ways Obama violated the Constitution....refusing to - enforce laws he didn't like, Fast and Furious (Views: 429, 2018-05-04, 7:52 am)
- Great, but only 5 years overdue. This should have been - filed at least by 2013. (Views: 399, 2018-05-04, 3:12 am)
- In Lancaster Co, PA, (Amish country) the ACLU - along with George Soros (Views: 375, 2018-05-04, 3:17 am)
- It's about time! The nightmares are really in the schools. - They take entitled to the extreme (Views: 403, 2018-05-04, 5:29 am)
- All red states - Not surprised (Views: 444, 2018-05-04, 7:59 am)
  - No, but it sounds like you are. - nm (Views: 480, 2018-05-04, 9:09 am)
    - It's too bad people don't appreciate states' rights isn't it? - The total ignorance of the (Views: 426, 2018-05-04, 9:27 am)