Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton today issued the following statement after Texas led a 25-state coalition at a hearing in U.S. District Court in Brownsville on the states’ enforcement action against President Barack Obama’s unilateral execution action on immigration:
“No individual is above the law, not even the President of the United States. President Obama’s brazenly lawless action in November trampled on the U.S. Constitution. It is a clear violation of the Take Care Clause and federal statutory law. As the President himself had repeatedly admitted, he lacks the authority to impose this unilateral amnesty. The President’s action makes clear that he has decided that the rule of law no longer applies to his Administration. President Obama’s action violates the separation of powers and goes beyond prosecutorial discretion to the point of unilaterally creating and enforcing legislation – bypassing the people’s duly-elected representatives in Congress entirely.”
The multistate coalition led by Texas includes: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Michigan, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, West Virginia and Wisconsin.