Over at Bloomberg, I write about some of the defenses that are being offered for Obama’s executive amnesty.

When conservatives and moderates criticize this unilateralism, as I did earlier this week, we tend to get three responses from liberals. None of them make Obama’s plan sound any better.
The first is that if Republicans dislike this step so much, they should pass their own bill through Congress. Jacob Weisberg takes this line in Slate. But just passing any old immigration bill would not stay the president’s hand. If Congress passed the immigration-enforcement bill the House voted for in 2005, Obama would almost certainly veto it and proceed with his plans.
What these critics are saying is that Republicans should keep Obama from acting on his own by giving him exactly what he wants. This is, of course, Obama’s own argument as well. It’s an argument that has nothing to say to people who think that presidential rewrites of the law, and threats thereof, have no place in our constitutional order — which is to say that it’s not a good-faith response. . .