Facing a surge on the border, 19 states asked the Supreme Court for an emergency stay on lifting Title 42, which was granted Monday evening.
“Immigration enforcement at the southern border is nonexistent, and the Biden administration refuses to acknowledge it,” said AAF Executive Director Paul Teller. “The work done to secure the border has been dismantled piece by piece, leaving Title 42 as the only means to address the crisis. The Biden administration’s record on the border is dismal, the American people deserve leadership that will take action to address the crisis.”
Background
Under the Biden Administration there have been an estimated 5.5 million illegal crossings, and the Department of Homeland Security estimates that border crossings will double if the Biden administration is allowed to end Title 42. Title 42 is the Trump-Pence administration policy that returns illegal aliens to the other side of the border.
Governor Ducey of Arizona took the Biden border crisis in his own hands by improvising a border wall with shipping containers, bracing for the flood of illegal immigration at the end of Title 42. The Biden administration, rather than stepping up to back Governor Ducey, instead ordered the removal of the makeshift border wall, while still refusing to address the crisis.
“The Biden administration has gone from simply being bad on the border to being a root cause of the crisis. Under the current administration there have been 5.5 million illegal crossings,” said AAF Executive Director Paul Teller. “Governors, such as Ducey, are doing their job and fulfilling their duty to protect their states, but they are going it alone and with constant roadblocks from this administration. Democrat Representative Cuellar of Texas said it right on Wednesday, ‘If there’s a crisis, show up. Just show up. Just showing up at the border would send a strong signal to the communities that he’s there — he cares about the border communities. Just show up. It doesn’t take much to just show up at the border.’”
Advancing American Freedom (AAF) today announced it filed an amicus brief before the United States Supreme Court in Loper Bright Enterprises et al v Gina Raimondo. In the brief, joined by Pelican Institute for Public Policy and America First Legal Foundation. amici argue that the case of Loper v. Raimondo presents the opportunity for Chevron v NRDC to be overturned, which has long permitted the confusion of powers of the several branches of the Federal government.
“The Chevron Doctrine has too long been the cause of overreaching Federal regulations that have created financial hardships for Americans of all walks of life, and the case before us today will decide if a Federal agency can place bureaucrats on fishing boats and make the owners pay for it,” said J. Marc Wheat, General Counsel for Advancing American Freedom. “The courts have an opportunity to right this wrong and overrule this burdensome doctrine.”
The amicus brief asks the court to consider that Congressional silence is not tantamount to delegating its legislative powers, silence of the Legislative branch is not to be taken as ambiguous, but the Chevron doctrine has read this silence as permission for a fill-in-the-blank overreach of its limited powers.
The amici goes further, emphasizing that Congress alone has power of the purse and the Chevron doctrine, by allowing mischievous agencies to seek funds outside of the appropriations process, has exceeded its delegated powers, and the judicial powers of Article III must now be used to reign in the roving powers of unelected agencies taking powers the Constitution grants to Congress alone.
To view the amicus brief, click here.
From AAF Executive Director Paul Teller: “The ESG movement is anti-American energy and threatens American workers and job creators. Climate activists like Net Zero Asset Managers are weaponizing the financial system to destroy American energy companies and American jobs, and companies like Vanguard are wise to discontinue their affiliation with organizations that ignore the interests of families and businesses.”
Background
In March, Advancing American Freedom launched a $10 million advocacy campaign, highlighting the impact of the progressive climate agenda and aiming to hold accountable congressional leaders who have enabled this energy crisis. This nationwide campaign consists of targeted advertising, polling, earned media, and policy speeches–all designed to create a winning coalition of elected officials, industry partners, and community leaders dedicated to reclaiming American energy dominance.
The Justice Department has been targeting pro-life activists through the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act as a response to the overturn of Roe v. Wade, according to Associate Attorney General Vanita Gupta.
Gupta delivered remarks at the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division’s 65th Anniversary earlier this month. The associate attorney general described the overturn of Roe v. Wade as a “devastating blow to women throughout the country” that took away “the constitutional right to abortion” and increased “the urgency” of the DOJ’s work—including the “enforcement of the FACE Act, to ensure continued lawful access to reproductive services.”
She did not immediately respond to requests for comment from The Daily Signal.
The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division enforces the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act, which “prohibits threats of force, obstruction and property damage intended to interfere with reproductive health care services.”
It protects both pro-life pregnancy centers and abortion clinics, as a DOJ official noted to Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, last week.
At least 98 Catholic churches and 77 pregnancy resource centers and other pro-life organizations have been attacked since May, but the DOJ has apparently not charged a single person in connection with these attacks. Meanwhile, the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division has charged 26 pro-life individuals with FACE Act violations this year.
The DOJ has not responded to The Daily Signal’s requests for comment on this point.
Pregnancy resource centers are typically run by pro-life women who seek to offer expectant mothers alternatives to abortion. Such centers provide diapers, baby clothes, and resources for both mothers and fathers, empowering them to care for their child, overcome addictions, build community, and find jobs.
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