Congress - Times When The Supreme Court or Executive Actions Have Been Used To Pass Laws That Congress Couldn't Flashcards
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Whose rights did Obama protect? When Congress couldn’t pass legislation Obama introduced the . . programme?
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Obama protected the rights of illegal immigrants and Dreamers (children brought into the US illegally by their parents) when Congress couldn’t pass legislation to do so, via the DACA programme.
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Because Congress couldn’t agree on gun control Obama used an executive order to?
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Congress couldn’t agree on gun control and so Obama used an executive order to close loopholes in background checks.
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Obergell v Hodge and the Supreme Court
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Supreme Court determined that in Obergefell v Hodges (2015) that same-sex couples had a right to marry, when Congress had failed to pass such legislation guaranteeing this right.
