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Ken Paxton: “Obama isn't an emperor. He doesn't have unlimited authority…”

Featuring: Ken Paxton, Republican | Attorney General of Texas

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Published | Video Starts at 01:28

Recently I had the opportunity to lead a coalition of 26 states and a legal challenge to President Obama's executive amnesty on illegal immigration before the United States Supreme Court. We spoke truth to power. We made the case that Obama isn't an emperor. He doesn't have unlimited authority and in fact he doesn't make the laws. Congress makes our laws. We had to remind the Obama administration of a fundamental lesson that every child in America is taught there are three co equal branches of American government and that our President is not in fact a king ruling over his subjects. (01:28–01:36)

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Asserts that President Obama does not have unlimited authority and Congress makes laws.

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