Faithless Execution Quotes

“Republicans, as well as Democrats committed to our constitutional framework, should fearlessly marshal the administration’s frauds, obstructions, and violations of law. They should demand transparency and accountability for the lies, the broken oaths, the betrayal of the rule of law, and the damage wrought—including lives not only devastated but lost due to the administration’s recklessness.”
― Andrew McCarthy, Faithless Execution: Building the Political Case for Obama’s Impeachment

“Willful and repeated violation of the Constitution is the textbook example of high crimes and misdemeanors.”
― Andrew McCarthy, Faithless Execution: Building the Political Case for Obama’s Impeachment

“The Obama dream is the nightmare about which Alexis de Tocqueville warned: a comparatively soft tyranny, in which the individual serves an “immense and tutelary” state and its centrally planned, punctiliously regulated society, enjoying only as much liberty as the government deigns to grant him.”
― Andrew McCarthy, Faithless Execution: Building the Political Case for Obama’s Impeachment

“The rise of the administrative state over the last century has profoundly challenged the Constitution’s framework, but President Obama has quite intentionally undertaken to dismantle that framework.”
― Andrew McCarthy, Faithless Execution: Building the Political Case for Obama’s Impeachment

“At home, the administration consulted with “experts” it has refused to identify in purging information about Islamic supremacism—the ideology that drives our enemies—from materials used to train law enforcement, intelligence, and military personnel responsible for our security. The obsession with bleaching the Islam out of Islamic terrorism reached mind-boggling lengths with the administration’s refusal to brand the Fort Hood massacre—in which thirteen Americans, mostly military personnel, were killed and dozens more wounded—as an act of terrorism.”
― Andrew McCarthy, Faithless Execution: Building the Political Case for Obama’s Impeachment

“The president has willfully defrauded the American people in the enactment and implementation of Obamacare.”
― Andrew McCarthy, Faithless Execution: Building the Political Case for Obama’s Impeachment

“The president and his subordinates have also taken the position that the federal government has a veto over a church’s choice of its ministers and employees. The Supreme Court rejected this offensive claim in a 9–0 ruling that even included the two justices appointed to the high court by the president.26”
― Andrew McCarthy, Faithless Execution: Building the Political Case for Obama’s Impeachment

“The HHS rule blatantly denies the breadth of First Amendment protection, and violates the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, under which Congress promotes First Amendment liberty by prohibiting government from unduly burdening religious freedom.”
― Andrew McCarthy, Faithless Execution: Building the Political Case for Obama’s Impeachment

“The president and his subordinates have violated the First Amendment’s guarantees of religious liberty and freedom of conscience. The president and his subordinates at the Department of Health and Human Services have promulgated a regulatory mandate, under the PPACA, requiring that the insurance policies that Americans are now compelled to purchase must cover FDA-approved forms of contraception, including abortifacients.”
― Andrew McCarthy, Faithless Execution: Building the Political Case for Obama’s Impeachment

“The president and his subordinates have willfully undermined and prejudiced the rights of the American people to equal protection under the law and to engage in free political speech and association. He and his subordinates have employed the awesome powers of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) in the interest of partisan politics, selectively harassing conservative groups opposed to the president’s policies and denying them the Constitution’s guarantee of equal protection under the law.”
― Andrew McCarthy, Faithless Execution: Building the Political Case for Obama’s Impeachment

“On Obama’s watch, the Justice Department has enforced the laws in a politicized and racially discriminatory manner. It has, furthermore, filed and threatened vexatious lawsuits against sovereign states to obstruct their lawful execution of public policy—particularly, the enforcement of laws against illegal immigration and election fraud.”
― Andrew McCarthy, Faithless Execution: Building the Political Case for Obama’s Impeachment

“After the massacre, the worst domestic terrorist attack since 9/11, General George Casey, army chief of staff, bleated that a “greater tragedy” than the mass murder and maiming would be “if our diversity becomes a casualty.” The administration fraudulently labeled the killings of U.S. troops who were about to deploy to a war zone as “workplace violence,” not international terrorism—a finding that denied Purple Hearts to the soldiers killed and wounded in the attack.”
― Andrew McCarthy, Faithless Execution: Building the Political Case for Obama’s Impeachment

“Lawlessness in the use of raw power, or “direct action,” is central to the training and practices of community organizers The dictatorial potential inherent in the power to enforce or not enforce the law makes impeachment a crucial check on presidential power Unmoored from the president’s constitutional duty to execute the laws faithfully, law is a weapon in an ideological crusade; the president becomes a ruler, not a public servant”
― Andrew McCarthy, Faithless Execution: Building the Political Case for Obama’s Impeachment

“The mandate oozes hostility to religion (the sort of thing that, as detailed above, the president and his subordinates propose to ban when the religion in question is Islam).”
― Andrew McCarthy, Faithless Execution: Building the Political Case for Obama’s Impeachment

“Using the powers of the office of President of the United States, Barack Hussein Obama, in violation of his constitutional oath faithfully to execute the office of President of the United States and, to the best of his ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States, and in disregard of his constitutional duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed, has willfully and repeatedly engaged in conduct violating the constitutional rights of citizens.”
― Andrew McCarthy, Faithless Execution: Building the Political Case for Obama’s Impeachment

“The president and his subordinates at the Department of Justice have used the executive’s awesome law enforcement power, including its access to vast sums of public money for conducting investigations and filing lawsuits, to intimidate the states into complying with Obama administration policies, including when those policies conflict with the states’ lawful powers, prerogatives and obligations under the Constitution and state law.”
― Andrew McCarthy, Faithless Execution: Building the Political Case for Obama’s Impeachment

“Furthermore, after the Justice Department targeted a Fox News reporter for a criminal investigation under the Espionage Act, in a matter involving unauthorized disclosure of classified information, the attorney general provided Congress with misleading information about his knowledge and approval of the investigation. Specifically, he testified: With regard to the potential prosecution of the press for the disclosure of [classified] material, that is not something I’ve ever been involved in, heard of, or would think would be wise policy.14 It subsequently emerged, however, that the attorney general had actually approved a search warrant for the reporter’s private emails.”
― Andrew McCarthy, Faithless Execution: Building the Political Case for Obama’s Impeachment

“The president and his subordinates at the Department of Justice have abused their power in conducting unduly aggressive surveillance and other investigation of members of the press, and then in providing Congress with misleading information about their investigative activities.”
― Andrew McCarthy, Faithless Execution: Building the Political Case for Obama’s Impeachment

“Moreover, upon revelations that the Internal Revenue Service, under the president and his subordinates, had invidiously targeted conservative organizations for harassment and disparate treatment in the awarding of tax-exempt status (as further described in Article VII, below), the president’s subordinates at the Justice Department handpicked to run the investigation a prosecutor from the Civil Rights Division who is a partisan Democrat and a donor to both the president’s political campaigns and the Democratic National Committee.7”
― Andrew McCarthy, Faithless Execution: Building the Political Case for Obama’s Impeachment

“The president and his subordinates have compelled citizens of the states of Florida and Arizona, and other citizens of the United States, to expend public funds on extensive litigation over Justice Department lawsuits seeking to prohibit those states from preventing illegal aliens from voting in elections.12”
― Andrew McCarthy, Faithless Execution: Building the Political Case for Obama’s Impeachment

“The president’s maladministration, which erodes public confidence in the government’s commitment to enforce immigration law and to provide Congress and the public with complete and accurate information, has undermined the capability of Congress to negotiate and enact immigration legislation.10”
― Andrew McCarthy, Faithless Execution: Building the Political Case for Obama’s Impeachment

“He and his subordinates have undermined a congressional statute, Section 287(g) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, that enables state and local law enforcement officers to enforce the federal immigration laws within their jurisdictions.9”
― Andrew McCarthy, Faithless Execution: Building the Political Case for Obama’s Impeachment

“He and his subordinates have issued a visa to a self-proclaimed member of a formally designated Egyptian terrorist organization in order to enable that member of the terrorist organization to consult with administration officials at the White House, in violation of the federal laws that prohibit material support to terrorism.8”
― Andrew McCarthy, Faithless Execution: Building the Political Case for Obama’s Impeachment

“He and his subordinates have instituted a policy whereby American immigration agents assist human traffickers in assisting aliens with relatives in the United States to enter the United States illegally. A federal district judge in Texas has issued a court order noting “the apparent policy of the Department of Homeland Security of completing the criminal mission of individuals who are violating the border security of the United States.”7”
― Andrew McCarthy, Faithless Execution: Building the Political Case for Obama’s Impeachment

“As a federal district court in Texas recently ruled, federal law “mandates the initiation of immigration removal proceedings whenever an immigration officer encounters an illegal alien who is not ‘clearly and beyond a doubt entitled to be admitted.’” Moreover, the court explained, the Department of Homeland Security does not have “prosecutorial discretion” to ignore this requirement; Congress, not the president, has the plenary power to make immigration law; and the executive branch may not “implement measures that are incompatible with Congressional intent.”
― Andrew McCarthy, Faithless Execution: Building the Political Case for Obama’s Impeachment

“Far from faithfully executing the laws, he and his subordinates are undermining the laws in granting administratively the amnesty Congress has declined to grant by statute.”
― Andrew McCarthy, Faithless Execution: Building the Political Case for Obama’s Impeachment

“He and his subordinates have directed the use of “prosecutorial discretion” to dismiss thousands of pending cases against illegal immigrants and to prevent the arrest and prosecution of thousands of illegal immigrants.”
― Andrew McCarthy, Faithless Execution: Building the Political Case for Obama’s Impeachment

“Demonstrating the Obama administration’s awareness of both the lawlessness of its actions and the fact that they were certain to undermine legislative efforts to reform immigration law in a manner consistent with the Constitution, one DHS memorandum observed: Even many who have supported a legislated legalization program may question the legitimacy of trying to accomplish the same end via administrative action, particularly after five years where the two parties have treated this as a matter to be decided in Congress.3”
― Andrew McCarthy, Faithless Execution: Building the Political Case for Obama’s Impeachment

“He has abused his authority over the Department of Homeland Security, and its component agencies charged with enforcement of the immigration laws, to confer an administrative amnesty on categories of illegal immigrants, which categories he has unilaterally defined, in order to undermine federal immigration laws and the constitutional authority of Congress to enact immigration law.”
― Andrew McCarthy, Faithless Execution: Building the Political Case for Obama’s Impeachment

“As alleged in Article I, he has unilaterally and in violation of the Constitution conferred amnesty on several categories of illegal aliens, which categories he has unilaterally defined, and he has instituted unauthorized federal benefits for those aliens, without congressional authorization and in defiance of Congress.”
― Andrew McCarthy, Faithless Execution: Building the Political Case for Obama’s Impeachment