Monday night in Texas, US District Judge Andrew Hanen has stopped Obama's executive order that would save five million immigrants from being deported. His justification was that the Administrative Procedure Act calls for more of a comment period before action. The Justice Department is intending to appeal this accusation. 26 states have shown opposition to this executive order, so naturally some lawsuit was going to come out of this.
This executive order is comparable to those taken during Thomas Jefferson's presidency. One of these was to take military action to deal with the Barbary pirates. Congress opposed this action, but he ordered the troops anyway, and the conquest was successful. Also, the Louisiana Purchase was started on an executive order as land gain was not specifically dictated by the Constitution. Many presidents have gone on to take more power on that they are given, Obama isn't the first.
http://www.cnn.com/2015/02/17/politics/texas-obama-immigration-injunction/index.html
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