Reading comes to life

House Republicans hired Professor Jonathan Turley "to oversee a lawsuit against President Barack Obama for alleged executive overreach." This comes just as many expect Obama to pursue executive action on immigration which, as WH correspondent to NYT Michael Shear (a CMC alum) reports, would be quite a "turnabout." As Obama himself said, "If we start... that, then essentially I’ll be ignoring the law in a way that I think would be very difficult to defend legally."

The Turley-Schroeder readings showcased the difficulty in determining when executive authority/discretion crosses the line into executive overreach. As Professor Pitney mentioned in class, this might just be a shirts-skins issue. But if Obama really intends to commit such an apparent turnabout, he might just consider consulting Schroeder.