That's the argument being made by some "legal scholars" the White House has trotted out to justify the president's amnesty plan. As far as the law is concerned, they say, the numbers are irrelevant. The Hill: The group included three law professors from the University of Chicago — where the president taught constitutional law before his election — as well as Columbia University president Lee Bollinger, and renowned Harvard constitutional scholar Laurence Tribe. “While we differ among ourselves on many issues relating to Presidential power and immigration policy, we are all of the view that these actions are lawful,” the professors write. “They are exercises of prosecutorial discretion that are consistent with governing law and with the policies that Congress has expressed in the statutes that it has enacted.” Republicans have blasted the president’s moves, which would extend deportation relief and work permits...(Read Full Post)