Democratic Rep. Peter Welch, a lawmaker and a lawyer, couldn’t explain a legal justification for part of President Obama’s executive amnesty order, when pressed about it last night on MNSBC:
“No one at the White House has been able to give me the legal justification for the following component of the president’s plan, which was leaked in the New York Times,” said MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell. “Can you tell me — and has the White House told you — what is the legal justification for the president to create a new category of beneficiaries for work documents? How can that be done without legislation?”
“You know, Lawrence,” said Rep. Welch, “I can’t tell you, and I’m not the lawyer who’s going to be litigating this case, so the answer to that would be decided by the courts, as you and I know. but here’s what I can tell you –”
O’Donnell interrupted, “Congressman, so as far as you know, I don’t mean to badger you about this. But I’ve been on this for days now. I haven’t found a single elected Democrat, not one Democrat in Washington, who can answer the question that I just put to you. Have you heard it answered by any Democrats?”
“I haven’t,” Welch conceded. “I haven’t.”
