"Fell For It, Like An Idiot"

[Edgetho]

Not me, of course. No way. I know better than to EVER trust anything from a dimocrap or one of its representatives.

Seems a Federal Judge just found that out the hard way....

Like an idiot I believed that Judge blasts DOJ over immigration claims threatens sanctions Fox News

A federal judge sharply scolded a Justice Department attorney at a hearing on President Obama's immigration executive actions, suggesting that the administration misled him on a key part of the program -- and that he fell for it, "like an idiot."

The testy court hearing was held Thursday in Texas by U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen. The judge suggested he could order sanctions against the administration if he finds they indeed misrepresented the facts.

At issue is whether the DOJ misled the judge into believing that a plank of the Obama program -- giving deportation reprieves to thousands of young illegal immigrants brought to the U.S. as children -- would not go forward before he made a ruling on a request to halt it. In fact, federal officials had given more than 108,000 people three-year reprieves before that date and granted them work permits under the program.

Obama's executive actions would spare from deportation as many as 5 million people who are in the U.S. illegally. Many Republicans oppose the actions, saying only Congress has the right to take such sweeping action. Twenty-six states led by Texas joined together to challenge them as unconstitutional. Hanen on Feb. 16 sided with the states, issuing a preliminary injunction blocking Obama's actions.

Hanen chided Justice Department attorney Kathleen Hartnett for telling him at a January hearing before the injunction was issued that nothing would be happening with regard to one key part of Obama's actions, an expansion of the 2012 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, known as DACA, until Feb. 18.


"Like an idiot I believed that," Hanen said......... More at the link

Dogs bark, Ducks quack, babies cry --

dimocraps lie

 

[SassyIrishLass]

Sanctions? How about some jail time?

Judge: Sanctions possible in Obama immigration court case

BROWNSVILLE, Texas (AP) — A federal judge who has blocked President Barack Obama's immigration executive action suggested on Thursday that he could order sanctions against the Justice Department if he rules it misled him about when exactly the administration began implementing one of the measures.

During a sometimes testy court hearing, U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen went back and forth with the Justice Department over whether it had mislead him into believing that a key part of Obama's program would not be implemented before he made a ruling on a request for a preliminary injunction. In fact, federal officials had given more than 108,000 people three-year reprieves from deportation before that date and granted them work permits under a program that protects young immigrants from deportation if they were brought to the U.S. illegally as children.

Judge Sanctions possible in Obama immigration court case - Yahoo News

 

[The Rabbi]

The judge is clearly not an idiot. Idiots generally dont become federal judges. Instead the judge relied on the general assumption that lawyers, as officers of the court, tell the truth and are generally honest in what they say, however they might spin that.
But with the Obama Administration, all bets are off. We can no longer assume the administration, or Democrats in general, are telling mostly the truth, even if they spin it. Instead we have to assume that everything they say is a lie, until proven otherwise. It is like dealing with a heroin addict.