{"id":7055,"date":"2014-11-10T22:54:03","date_gmt":"2014-11-10T22:54:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=7055"},"modified":"2014-11-10T22:54:03","modified_gmt":"2014-11-10T22:54:03","slug":"ag-should-knife-the-boss-in-the-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=7055","title":{"rendered":"AG should knife the boss in the back?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Sens. Ted Cruz of Texas and Mike Lee of Utah are making an impossible demand of the woman selected by President Obama to become the nation&#8217;s next attorney general.<\/p>\n<p>They want Loretta Lynch to state up front whether a presidential executive order regarding U.S. immigration policy is constitutional and legal. More to the point, they are demanding that she declare such an action <em>unconstitutional<\/em> and <em>illegal.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s think about this for a moment.<\/p>\n<p>What they&#8217;re demanding is that the woman who wants to be attorney general\u00a0stick a dagger in the back of the individual who has nominated her to that high office.<\/p>\n<p>Cruz and Lee do not appear interested in simply hearing her out. Both men already have declared that they believe such a move &#8212; which the president has all but telegraphed will occur &#8212; doesn&#8217;t pass constitutional muster.<\/p>\n<p>They are among congressional Republicans who already are angry over Obama&#8217;s use of executive authority to tweak and tinker with the Affordable Care Act. These men both are dead set against reforming immigration policy at least during the current congressional session.<\/p>\n<p>So now they&#8217;re threatening to hold the attorney general nomination hostage to their own agenda.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s more, they&#8217;re asking the AG-designate to betray the president who&#8217;s nominated her.<\/p>\n<p>Good luck with that, senators.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sens. Ted Cruz of Texas and Mike Lee of Utah are making an impossible demand of the woman selected by President Obama to become the nation&#8217;s next attorney general. They want Loretta Lynch to state up front whether a presidential executive order regarding U.S. immigration policy is constitutional and legal. More to the point, they &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=7055\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">AG should knife the boss in the back?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,13,14],"tags":[540,1662,2245,2827,4537],"class_list":["post-7055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal-news","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-barack-obama","tag-executive-authority","tag-immigration","tag-loretta-lynch","tag-ted-cruz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7055\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}