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Politifact (Tampa Bay Times)
Ted Cruz says Barack Obama is first president “who thinks he can choose which laws to enforce and which laws to ignore.”
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.