Biden is a threat to democracy and the constitution
Washington Examiner Editorial:
President Joe Biden is scheduled to give a speech tonight in front of Independence Hall in Philadelphia, where he will call his political opponents a threat to democracy and urge everyone to vote for Democrats instead.
If Biden wants to see a real threat to democracy, he need only look in the mirror. That's because it is the unlawful executive actions by recent presidents, including his own student loan amnesty announced last week, that represent the real threat to the constitutional order and the rule of law.
Article I of the Constitution, which was debated and signed in the building from which Biden will speak tonight, vests all legislative powers of the federal government in Congress, not in the executive branch. If a president of either party wants to use the power of the federal government to wipe away the debt of millions of borrowers, just to pick an issue at random, that president must be able to point to a specific act of Congress that gave him or her that power. Moreover, Article IV specifically gives Congress the "power to dispose of and make all needful rules and regulations" respecting government property, such as student debts.
Biden’s defenders disingenuously claim that the Higher Education Relief Opportunities for Students Act of 2003 gives him the power to cancel permanently the student debt of all borrowers affected by a declared national emergency. But that legislation was passed to provide relief to borrowers who missed work after being called to military service during a national emergency.
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The most egregious recent abuse of executive power, however, was former President Barack Obama's unilateral rewriting of the nation’s immigration laws in the middle of his presidential reelection. On a case-by-case basis, presidents have chosen to “defer action” against certain migrants otherwise slated for deportation. What had never been done before Obama was to identify an entire class of migrants for special deferred status, which, on top of everything else, included both legal protections and work permits.
Obama’s 2012 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals was an unprecedented expansion of presidential power that has since served as a beacon for migrants around the world, inviting them to risk their children's lives by sending them to the United States. Thanks to Obama's abuse of power, migrants know that their children will not only be allowed into the country but will eventually be allowed to stay permanently by some other president's executive amnesty.
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The Biden administration also used media companies to suppress free speech in violation of the First Amendment. Biden is also trying to thwart the 2nd Amendment by placing restrictions on gun ownership.
Biden and the Democrats also apparently claim that only they can protect democracy by challenging the outcome of elections.
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