Ted Cruz says Barack Obama is first president 'who thinks he can choose which laws to enforce and wh

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Critics of President Barack Obama have charged that he has regularly exceeded the powers of his office in selectively enforcing the law. Their examples include making recess appointments, issuing executive orders, delaying provisions of his health care law, refusing to defend the Defense of Marriage Act in court and declining to deport certain categories of young illegal immigrants.

At the 2014 CPAC conference, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, reiterated this point to the audience of conservative activists.

Referring to Obama, Cruz said, "This president of the United States is the first president we've ever had who thinks he can choose which laws to enforce and which laws to ignore."

We were suspicious of this claim, because we recalled several instances in recent years of other presidents being accused of exceeding their executive authority.

We checked with eight historians and legal scholars across the ideological spectrum to see whether they could point to prior examples of presidents choosing to ignore laws. They came up with a number of examples. (Cruz’s office did not return an inquiry for this story.)
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2014/mar/10/ted-cruz/ted-cruz-says-barack-obama-first-president-who-thi/

[CJCRANE]

1. I'm pretty sure Bush overused signing statements.

What is it that makes pretty much every RWer a fount of projection?

[blm]

2. Howzabout unconstitutional funding of Contra rebels with illegal Iranian arms deal money in order

to get around the fact that Congress would not fund the war Reagan-Bush wanted to have?

[DhhD]

3. Too bad as Cruz's base believes the dominionist lying One, without checking up on him

(The Anointed One/King Cruz).

[mbperrin]

4. Weird what the Canadian-born spawn of a Castro revolutionary

and a US citizen will believe and say, isn't it?

[hobbit709]

5. He's outdoing Gohmert in the stupid department.