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Supporters Push Obama to Bypass Congress Even More

December 7, 2013
Congressional Democrats and activists, frustrated with the  gridlock in Washington, are pressing President Barack Obama to bypass Congress  and use his executive authority to achieve progress on a number of top liberal  issues.
According to The  Washington Times, the president has already invoked his powers to change  laws on issues ranging from immigration and healthcare to welfare and education  laws, and supporters want him to go further.
“In light of Republican  obstructionism, it should be no surprise to anyone that the administration is  moving more and more toward executive action,” Jim Manley, a Democratic  strategist, told the Times.
“The problem, however, is you can do a lot  more via the legislative process than you can do through executive orders.”
On healthcare reform, the president has taken a number of unilateral  decisions on the application of the law to meet his political objectives.
For example, he  single-handedly suspended the employer mandate, made a decision that  people could receive subsidies even if they’re not participating in Obamacare’s  state-run health exchanges. He also  decided that states  have the authority to approve existing insurance plans even if they are  not in keeping with the new requirements in the Affordable Care Act.
Obama also made waves when he decided to halt  the deportation of “Dreamers,” or immigrants who were illegally brought  to the U.S. as minors, even though Congress voted against the policy.
Republicans and legal experts have argued that Obama has far overstepped his  authority and run roughshod over the constitutional system.
But  supporters say he should go further.  More than two  dozen House Democrats wrote a letter to Obama saying he should exercise  his authority to give amnesty to all illegal immigrants.
And liberal  lawmakers also are pressing him to use executive authority for measures to  achieve greater income equality.
“The problem with what the president is  doing is that he is not simply posing a danger to the constitutional system; he  is becoming the very danger the Constitution was designed to avoid:  that is,  the concentration of power in any single branch,” Jonathan Turley, law professor  at George Washington University, told the House Judiciary Committee this week,  according to the Times.
“We’ve had the radical expansion of presidential  powers under by President Bush and President Obama,” Turley added.  “We have  what many once called an imperial presidency model of largely unchecked  authority.  And with that trend we also have the continued rise of this fourth  branch.  We have agencies that are now quite large that issue regulations.”
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