JUDGE ANDREW NAPOLITANO: George [Will] is correct that both Republican Congresses and Democratic Congresses have given to Republican and Democratic presidents extraordinary authority. Now, here's what [President Obama] can't do. He can't make illegals legal. But he can do the following: he can open the borders, arguably he did that a few months ago with the Central American children in Texas; he can issue green cards to whoever he wants; he can stop deportations for the rest of his presidency.



I agree with A.B. That will be so inflammatory if the Republicans take the Senate you will see the "i-word," impeachment, bandied about. Whether they want to do it, whether they think it harms them in 2016 is a political judgment. But it would be a profound reason to discuss it because when the president discusses his discretion about how to enforce the law in such a way that it is the opposite of what the law was intended to do, then he has violated his oath to uphold the law and is a candidate for impeachment.