Utah’s GOP attorney general: Obama immigration move totally within his power
A number of Republican officials and conservatives have responded to Obamas immigration announcement by attacking it on process grounds, arguing that the decision to circumvent Congress was an abuse of power, an affront to democracy, and even unconstitutional and could encourage further lawbreaking.
But in an interview with me just now, Mark Shurtleff, Utahs conservative Republican attorney general, dismissed those objections, arguing the move was perfectly within Obamas powers, good law enforcement policy, and even a conservative solution.
This is clearly within the presidents power, Shurtleff said. I was pleased when the president announced it.
Shurtleff, a Mitt Romney supporter who is a diehard conservative on many other issues, is perhaps the nations most prominent Republican staking out an alternative to the GOPs hard line on immigration. His support for the presidents policy represents a larger split within the party, between those who see Arizona as a model for the nation and those who want the party to adjust to demographic (and related political) realities with another approach.
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