Rick Scott wants Trump to bypass Congress for a wall and DACA using illegal executive orders

[babylonsister]

How I despise this guy.

Rick Scott wants Trump to bypass Congress for a wall and DACA using illegal executive orders
The new senator from Florida dismissed President Barack Obama's power to protect DREAMers back in 2013.
Josh Israel
Jan 31, 2019, 4:49 pm


Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) has only been in office since January 8 and already he has given up on Washington, D.C. Having decided, based on his many days of experience, that compromise is impossible, he proclaimed on Thursday that President Donald Trump should simply ignore Congress and unilaterally act, not just to build his vaunted wall along the U.S.-Mexico border — but also to permanently protect young undocumented immigrants who were protected under President Barack Obama’s deferred action (DACA) program and other immigrants with temporary protected status (TPS).

Unfortunately for Scott, a prominent Republican lawmaker delivered an impassioned argument in 2013 for why the president of the United States does not have the authority to “include a permanent solution for DACA and TPS” in an executive order: it was Rick Scott, in a veto memorandum he authored while governor of Florida .

Scott tweeted a statement on Thursday afternoon urging Trump to stop trying to negotiate with Congressional Democrats and instead take unprecedented executive action to illegally solve the immigration debate. “Washington is far beyond broken – it’s full of actors who just want to play politics,” the former Florida governor opined. Should the other party “continue to refuse to work with him, then the President needs to use his emergency powers to fund border security and include a permanent solution for DACA and TPS.”

Link to tweet

This, of course, is illegal. While some conservative legal scholars have embraced the notion that Trump can just declare an emergency and spend billions of taxpayer dollars to build the wall he vowed would be fully funded by Mexico, many others on the left and right dispute this. With a Trump-friendly judiciary, it is possible that he could get away with such a power grab nonetheless.

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https://thinkprogress.org/rick-scott-daca-executive-order-c250148d956c/

[sharedvalues]

1. Scott stole the election via voter suppression. He's illegitimate.

[RKP5637]

4. K&R!!! n/t

[guillaumeb]

2. The same Rick Scott who defrauded Medicare out of millions?

That Rick Scott?

[spanone]

9. That's the guy...did it on behalf of HCA

Hospital Corporation of America

Columbia/HCA fraud case[edit]
The Columbia/HCA fraud case is one of the largest examples of Medicare fraud in U.S. history. Numerous New York Times stories, beginning in 1996, began scrutinizing Columbia/HCA's business and Medicare billing practices. These culminated in the company being raided by Federal agents searching for documents and eventually the ousting of the corporation's CEO, Rick Scott, by the board of directors.[17] Among the crimes uncovered were doctors being offered financial incentives to bring in patients, falsifying diagnostic codes to increase reimbursements from Medicare and other government programs, and billing the government for unnecessary lab tests,[18] though Scott personally was never charged with any wrongdoing. HCA wound up pleading guilty to more than a dozen criminal and civil charges and paying fines totaling $1.7 billion. In 1999, Columbia/HCA changed its name back to HCA, Inc.

In 2001, HCA reached a plea agreement with the U.S. government that avoided criminal charges against the company and included $95 million in fines.[19] In late 2002, HCA agreed to pay the U.S. government $631 million, plus interest, and pay $17.5 million to state Medicaid agencies, in addition to $250 million paid up to that point to resolve outstanding Medicare expense claims.[20] In all, civil lawsuits cost HCA more than $1.7 billion to settle, including more than $500 million paid in 2003 to two whistleblowers.[19]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicare_fraud

[lpbk2713]

3. Shut your hole Scott.

No one wants to hear from you.

[muntrv]

5. STFU, Seanator Medicare Fraud!

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

6. I really despise that fucking mutant. nt

[Baitball Blogger]

7. "Compromise is impossible" so break the law.

Seems to be a habit with his Republican buddies. Can we now poke a hole in that courtesy pass we give retired military officers that abuse their jobs and/or positions?

[bluestarone]

8. Just another worthless piece of shit hanging out with

LOTS of other pieces of shit!!!!!!!!!!!

[Cha]

10. Thanks majority of Fla voters.. you could have

had a real Senator.. Nelson. Instead you got a little fucking mini trumpuppet.

[BigmanPigman]

11. You said it!

[world wide wally]

12. Thanks, Florida

[mitch96]

13. Hey, we tried but too many red staters and too much money

Watch he will try to be the next pres in the future... I really hate this fucker... This plutocrat thinks money equates to knowing how to run things.. NOT... He fucked up Fla and will try to fuck up the senate...
Did I tell you how much I hate this guy??
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[rockfordfile]

14. Rick Scott is just another un-American crook.