Rep. Trey Gowdy has a warning for supporters of President Obama’s executive action on immigration.
“Be careful what you do with the law today, because if you weaken it today, you weaken it forever,” he told the House Judiciary Committee in his opening statement Wednesday.
The South Carolina Republican called the rule of law the “greatest unifying and equalizing force” in the U.S., but “one person [i.e., the president] does not make law in a republic.”
Gowdy warned that if Obama’s “unilateral extra-constitutional acts are not stopped,” future presidents “will expand that power of the executive branch, thereby threatening the constitutional equilibrium.”
He also went on Fox News Wednesday night to further explain further what he was trying to say, reiterating his warning about misuse of executive power.
“I just don’t like it when either side plays games with the rule of law, because it is the most unifying, equalizing force we have in our culture,” Gowdy said, adding that the same goes for Republicans in office.
Gowdy also said that Obama waited until after the midterm elections to issue the executive order because he lacked confidence that it was the right thing to do.
