coming up and immigration decisions coming up. can the president succeed not having differences with conservatives? no, he can t. justin amash s district is different than the other three members. in the other members district you could run a cardboard republican that said republican on it and they would win those districts because they are solidly republican districts. can you get to a primary? that is the other thing. good luck trying to find something to the right of jim jordan. i believe most of the freedom caucus members ran ahead of trump, right? right. you never know what happens in a coordinated intensive campaign that donald trump is leading. who knows, right? i think it is interesting he has identified the freedom caucus as the problem be. confusion after the health care bill failed over whether he was going to blame paul ryan or blame the freedom caucus.
saying the order did not apply to green card holders. and arguing the courts have no role in examining immigration decisions related to national security made by the president. that is a key one. joining me for more on this is the attorney john spillmore. i want to ask you ab that. there is a federal statute i m no lawyer but it seems clear to me. whenever the president finds that the entry of any alien or class of alien would be detrimental to the interest of the united states, he may, by proclamation and for some period he deems necessary suspend the entry of all aliens or any class of aliens as immigrants or nonimmigrants. and it goes on. that was not considered or listed in the appeals court order that came out. seems like this is political. how do you render a decision without even mentioning the very law that confirmed upon the
administration is hoping that it will succeed in the supreme court. there s still time to get this case before the justices in this current term. what s the likelihood or i guess it s too difficult to predict whether the court will take the case? well, in the recent immigration decisions, the supreme court has emphasized that immigration policy is primarily a federal responsibility and the states can t do anything to block it. this was the decision, for example, against arizona. but at the same time, this question of a president acting on his own with his administration plan, the question is, is this in conformance with what congress had in mind or against it and that s where the real question will be. chris cillizza, this is clearly going to be part of an immigration debate for the republicans. is rubio going to be pressed on the issue and the fact that he was originally in favor of comprehensive program, his own legislation that he then backed down on? well, this is one of th
the deepest sense that he was not in control of events and not reacting strongly enough. to some extent, they can point to a more positive story that was reflected in the approval rating that you cited in that december poll. right. i was beginning to ask you about what you thought was behind that. and you could actually in the president s press conference, the end of the year press conference, you could sense that he was more up beat. so let s talk about the fact that we have president obama will be a lame duck president. we re probably going to see gridlock in congress. i think that s safe to say. what do you think he s going to be able to accomplish next year? i think the cuba and the immigration decisions really are the marker of where this is going. that the president has very minimal expectations of what he can get done with congress. maybe something on trade. maybe something on tax reform. by and large, he s going to try to make his mark through i think unilateral executi
supreme court declared something to be constitutional does not make it so is simply inaccurate. in fact, when a couple of people on the supreme court declare something to be constitutional it is, in fact, constitutional t is how our government operates. it is part of what has been, yoç know, obviously distressing for folks on the left, progressives, looked at decisions they have been unhappy with from the court coming out, whether the immigration decisions on monday or whether it was about citizens united. the but the fact is once they are determined constitution a.m., only the supreme court can make them doesn t make them good or bad policy but it does, in fact, make them constitutional. rand paul was wrong. by the way, you get rand paul on and put him on ask him where he stood on the 64 civil rights bill, would you that have passed constitutional review by his lights? ask him where he stood on the brown case? was there inherent problem in the constitution, separate but equal.