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Originally Posted by Cimarron29414
.... I believe it is the duty of any President to enforce and defend all the laws of the US, if not explicitly then implicitly. Shouldn't this be corrected through the Legislative branch? Isn't this the Executive branch unilaterally nullifying a law that they don't like?
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The Constitution says nothing about the President defending laws, but simply that the president will "take care that the laws be faithfully executed."
Holder said that the DoJ will enforce the law, just no longer take the the lead in defending it in federal court.
Rahl beat me to it.