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Originally Posted by smooth
given your response, I'm hard-pressed to believe you read the articles I posted.
evidently I should have been more specific when I asked "where" you were getting your info.
please quote the portion of the constitution you feel states that the executive branch can refuse to enforce legislation the president views as unconstititional.
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seeing as how the Department of Justice, an executive branch office, is responsible for enforcing the laws at the direction of the president, that would mean that the president does not have to enforce a law he considers unconstitutional.
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Originally Posted by smooth
the irony I see in your resopnse is that you started this thread with the premise that we are near or actualizing a police state, yet because of your perception of how far away from me ideologically your political views sit, you feel the need to defend practices that would actually approximate police-state actions and believe in your head that such behaviors are grounded in the constitution.
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In pointing out that the executive branch directs the law enforcement agencies of the country on which laws to enforce and which ones to not enforce is not defending the so called tactics in my response. I'm simply pointing out that the executive branch has alot of power to enforce laws at their discretion, some more harshly than others depending upon their views.