Rep. King delaying suit against Obama immigration policy until after election

Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) said this week that he will delay his planned lawsuit against the Obama administration for its June announcement that it would stop deporting younger illegal immigrants and instead offer them work permits.

King said in mid-June that he would sue the administration in a matter of weeks for selectively enforcing U.S. law to avoid deporting young illegal immigrants. He later pushed back his suit until around Labor Day.

But in an interview with the Sioux City Journal, he said his suit would now be filed after the November election.

"We are close to the election. It would be viewed as a political initiative anyway," King told the paper.

The Journal also reported that King is still developing a list of plaintiffs, and is picking a judicial district. But it said the suit is expected this year, not in 2013.

"For me, this is a constitutional issue; it doesn't need to be an election issue at all," King said. "But when the president of the United States suspends immigration law and manufactures a work permit out of thin air, I know of no constitutional attorney or scholar that can make an argument that that is not a violation of the separation of powers, legislating by executive fiat."

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