# Is President Obama's proposed executive action on illegal immigrants an abuse of power?

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**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [November 20, 2014, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-president-obamas-proposed-executive-action-on-illegal-immigrants-an-abuse-of-power/705155 "2014-11-20T13:29:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2014, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-president-obamas-proposed-executive-action-on-illegal-immigrants-an-abuse-of-power/705155/221 "2014-12-08T19:23:44Z")

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> [@D\_Anconia](#):
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> Ok, so you admit that Professor Rotunda is qualified. Why should we believe an anonymous, newly-minted lawyer, on the internet over an established Constitutional scholar?
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> I’ll leave that for the readers to decide.

Because there is a clear error in his testimony. I have pointed it out to you in exhaustive detail. For some reason, you haven’t acknowledged it.

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**Author:** ![D\_Anconia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@D\_Anconia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Anconia)\
**Post date:** [December 9, 2014, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-president-obamas-proposed-executive-action-on-illegal-immigrants-an-abuse-of-power/705155/222 "2014-12-09T16:53:40Z")

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> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#):
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> Because there is a clear error in his testimony. I have pointed it out to you in exhaustive detail. For some reason, you haven’t acknowledged it.

I haven’t acknowledged it, because you haven’t demonstrated it, let alone in exhaustive detail.

Where have you established the Professor’s “clear error”, other than by your own say so?

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**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2014, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-president-obamas-proposed-executive-action-on-illegal-immigrants-an-abuse-of-power/705155/223 "2014-12-18T11:50:54Z")

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The second half of post 201. The one you ignored the substance of earlier.

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