When Obama used executive powers on immigration, they cried tyranny

Lloyd Green
Sat 16 Feb 2019 01.00 EST
Last modified on Sat 16 Feb 2019 01.23 EST

... Once upon a time, Trump and his legal minions brayed against unilateral executive actions, calling them tyrannical. Not any more ...

Take Jay Sekulow, Trump’s personal lawyer. In April 2016, in a brief to the supreme court attacking Obama’s unilateral expansion of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (Daca) program, Sekulow painted Obama as a despot ...

Senator Mitch McConnell and 44 of his Republican colleagues .. accused Obama of seeking to “usurp” their powers.

... On Thursday, the Senate majority leader threw his weight behind the president, announcing on the floor: “I’m going to support the national emergency declaration” ...

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/feb/16/trump-emergency-declaration-unconstitutional-sekulow-francisco-republicans-obama