The Constitution grants Congress the power to make the laws and imposes a duty on the president to enforce them. Specifically, Article II, Section 3 of the U.S. Constitution declares that the president “shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed.” This clause, known as the Take Care Clause, requires the president to enforce all constitutionally valid Acts of Congress, regardless of his own position on the policy. However, I believe the administration has failed on multiple occasions to enforce acts of Congress that it disagrees with for policy reasons and has also stretched its authority to put in place policies Congress refused to enact. Although the administration is not the first to push its powers beyond their constitutional limits, executive overreach has gone way too far under this administration. The House will take action next week on a resolution to take legal action against the administration due to its failure to enforce laws as written, not as the administration wishes they had been written.
Posted on: Fri, 25 Jul 2014 17:00:54 +0000
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