The Biggest Con: Obama as a Constitutional Law Professor Who Never Seems to have Read the Constitution, Dictates Amnesty

There is a wide divide between advocacy and the law.  Obama's "professors" are sycophants rather than experts. m/r

The New Con: Law Professors for Executive Amnesty | The American Spectator

By Jeffrey Lord – 11.25.14

A pattern of deceit from the White House.

Call it a White House con game. The Obama administration is rolling out a list of law professors in support of the president’s executive order giving amnesty to five million illegal immigrants. The Hill reports:

The White House worked to bolster the legal case for President Obama’s immigration action Thursday night, releasing a letter from a group of prominent legal scholars arguing that the president’s moves were within his legal authorities.The group included three law professors from the University of Chicago — where the president taught constitutional law before his election — as well as Columbia University President Lee Bollinger and renowned Harvard constitutional scholar Laurence Tribe.“While we differ among ourselves on many issues relating to Presidential power and immigration policy, we are all of the view that these actions are lawful,” the professors write. “They are exercises of prosecutorial discretion that are consistent with governing law and with the policies that Congress has expressed in the statutes that it has enacted.”

In their letter the group begins by describing themselves as “law professors and lawyers who teach, study, and practice constitutional law and related subjects.” It all sounds so normal, yes? Just a bunch of disinterested law profs putting their objective, deeply scholarly opinions out there about a major issue involving the law. 

Well, no. Of the ten law professors listed, Adam Cox of NYU; Walter Dellinger of Duke University; Gillian Metzger of Columbia; Eric Posner, Geoffrey Stone, and David A. Strauss of the University of Chicago; and Laurence Tribe of Harvard are all thorough-going liberals who have contributed to the campaigns of Barack Obama or other Democrats such as Hillary Clinton and Elizabeth Warren. Which is to say, seven of the ten are well known partisans. An eighth, Yale’s Harold Koh, was a legal adviser for the Obama State Department. A ninth, Lee Bollinger, the president of Columbia, hosted an Obama inaugural party at his university, Obama’s alma mater. …

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