[guest post by Dana]

The eight top-tier candidates tonight, include: Kasich, Bush, Rubio, Trump, Carson, Cruz, Fiorina and Paul. You can follow it at the FOX website.

(I hope the candidates take a moment to call out the MSM for their lies and terrible treatment of Ben Carson the past two weeks.)

–Dana

Washington Times: Judges use Obama’s own words to halt deportation amnesty:

A federal appeals court said President Obama’s own words saying he was claiming powers to “change the law” were part of the reason it struck down his deportation amnesty, in a ruling late Monday that reaffirmed the president must carry out laws and doesn’t have blanket powers to waive them.

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In an opinion freighted with meaning for the separation of powers battles, Judge Jerry E. Smith, writing for himself and Judge Jennifer Walker Elrod, singled out Mr. Obama’s own claim that he acted to rewrite the law because Congress wouldn’t pass the bill he wanted.

The key remark came in a speech in Chicago just days after his Nov. 20, 2014, announcement detailing his executive actions. Fed up with a heckler who was chiding him for boosting the number of deportations, Mr. Obama fired back, agreeing that he’d overseen a spike in deportations.

“But what you are not paying attention to is the fact that I just took an action to change the law,” the president said.

The two judges said the Justice Department failed to explain away Mr. Obama’s remarks.

“At oral argument, and despite being given several opportunities, the attorney for the United States was unable to reconcile that remark with the position that the government now takes,” Judge Smith wrote.

It’s a change in the law when Obama talks about it, but it’s just enforcing existing law when his lawyers go before the judges. Kind of like how ObamaCare wasn’t a tax when Obama talked about it, but then was a tax when his lawyers went before the judges. John Roberts shrugged off that lie. I’m not sure the Supreme Court will get in the middle of this one, though. Which means, in all likelihood, that the issue will be deferred for the next occupant of the Oval Office. (Deferred Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents!)

It makes this election more important than ever.

In times like this, one recalls the words of Nelson Muntz: