Will climate change rules leave Congress behind?
New climate change regulations may be on the horizon, as it were, as Team Obama reportedly will bypass lawmakers in the U.S. Congress and take unilateral action on its own.
Along with his inner circle, President Obama has also been floating the idea of using executive orders to change the country's immigration law without Congressional approval. Under Article I, Section 8, of the U.S. Constitution, only Congress has the authority to engage in lawmaking in this area. That notwithstanding, the Obama administration has selectively enforced or not enforced immigration law, resulting in the suspension of deportations for approximately a million illegal immigrants and also released hundreds if not thousands of criminal aliens into the country, including gang members that may have recently entered the U.S. from Central America in the ongoing border surge.
The American people have probably lost track of how many times Obamacare has been changed by administration bureaucrats, again without obtaining the approval of the House and Senate.
As far its policy on man-made climate change, The New York Times claims that Obama and his minions will also ignore the legislative branch of the federal government and go it alone:
The Obama administration is working to forge a sweeping international climate change agreement to compel nations to cut their planet-warming fossil fuel emissions, but without ratification from Congress. In preparation for this agreement, to be signed at a United Nations summit meeting in 2015 in Paris, the negotiators are meeting with diplomats from other countries to broker a deal to commit some of the world's largest economies to enact laws to reduce their carbon pollution. But under the Constitution, a president may enter into a legally binding treaty only if it is approved by a two-thirds majority of the Senate. To sidestep that requirement, President Obama's climate negotiators are devising what they call a 'politically binding' deal that would 'name and shame' countries into cutting their emissions. The deal is likely to face strong objections from Republicans on Capitol Hill and from poor countries around the world, but negotiators say it may be the only realistic path."