As Republicans prepare to take full control of Congress on Tuesday, the party’s leaders are counting on judges, not their newly elected majority on Capitol Hill, to roll back President Obama’s aggressive second-term agenda and block his executive actions on health care, climate change and immigration. …
As the new year begins, conservatives and Republican officials have filed legal briefs in courts across the country aimed at persuading judges to block Mr. Obama from exercising his executive authority and to stop expansive decisions by his agencies. CONT.
Michael D. Shear, New York Times