Hewitt Blog

If this report is correct, yet another unilateral exercise in executive branch power is being substituted for Congressional action followed by a presidential signature.

This is deeply troubling, and for reasons that have nothing to do with gay rights or the lack thereof.  What a president can unilaterally bestow he can unilaterally take away.

The 1993 law that is being reinterpreted to mandate same-sex family leave benefits intended nothing of the sort.  This is a raw exercise of power by a hard-left collection of appointees who are simply in the business of doing what they want regardless of the Constitution's requirements for law making..

Does anyone really believe --can anyone say with a straight face-- that Clinton-era Labor Secretary Robert Reich wouldn't have noticed such an intent in the law?  That gay rights groups would have been silent on the oversight for nearly two decades?

.