Ted Cruz Fails A Fact Check (Again)

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Politifact (Tampa Bay Times)

The Truth-O-Meter Says:

Says President Barack Obama “is the first president we’ve ever had who thinks he can choose which laws to enforce and which laws to ignore.”

Ted Cruz on Thursday, March 6th, 2014 in a speech at the CPAC conference

Ted Cruz says Barack Obama is first president “who thinks he can choose which laws to enforce and which laws to ignore.” 

This 1868 cartoon from Harper’s Weekly shows Gen. Ulysses Grant and ousted Secretary of War Edwin Stanton near a cannon labeled “Congress,” aimed at temporary Secretary of War Lorenzo Thomas and President Johnson. (Library of Congress)

 

 

President Franklin D. Roosevelt, right,  talks to Edward R. Stettinius Jr., the federal administrator of the lend-lease program in 1942. (Library of Congress)

Critics of President Barack Obama have charged that he has regularly exceeded the powers of his office in selectively enforcing the law. Their examples include making recess appointments, issuing executive orders, delaying provisions of his health care law, refusing to defend the Defense of Marriage Act in court and declining to deport certain categories of young illegal immigrants.

At the 2014 CPAC conference, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, reiterated this point to the audience of conservative activists.