Excerpts from Breitbart - Cruz said in the report, "Rather than honor his duty, President Obama has openly defied it by repeatedly suspending, delaying, and waiving portions of the laws that he is charged to enforce. When President Obama disagreed with federal immigration laws, he instructed the Justice Department to cease enforcing the laws. He did the same thing with federal welfare law, drug laws, and the federal Defense of Marriage Act. In more than two centuries of our nation's history, there is simply no precedent for the White House wantonly ignoring federal laws and asking others to do the same."
"An imperial presidency threatens the liberty of every citizen," Cruz said. "Because when a president can pick and choose which laws to follow and which to ignore, he is no longer a president."
The Senator then listed the 76 supposedly lawless power grabs by Obama, which were each placed in one of the following categories: Governing by Executive Fiat, National Security, Obamacare, Economy, Executive Nominees and Personnel, Free Speech and Privacy, Other Lawless Acts, Other Abuses of Power. READ MORE ->