As a follow-up to my latest shrill-but-accurate column on the president’s plan to bypass Congress and make immigration policy on his own, let me say something (not for the first time) about the common claim that this isn’t really a case of the president making law on his own, because everything he’s doing is potentially provisional, and subject to reversal by a future president. Here’s Slate’s Josh Voorhees, offering a version of that argument:
… it’s important to remember that the bulk of Obama’s actions will be temporary. There’s no guarantee that they’ll remain in place after he leaves office in two years. What happens after that will be in the hands of the next president.
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