Obama messed with Texas. Texas Attorney General and governor-elect Greg Abbott announced he would take legal action against the Obama administration for Obama’s executive action on immigration. “This is a legal issue, not a political issue,” Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott said in a statement, “and President Obama has crossed a serious legal line with his proposed unilateral immigration executive action. The President’s action violates his constitutional duty to faithfully enforce immigration laws that were duly enacted by Congress, circumvents the will of the American people and is an affront to the families and individuals who follow our laws to legally immigrate to the United States. The State of Texas will assert a legal action against President Obama’s unconstitutional abuse of power. … President Obama’s actions violate the Take Care Clause of the U.S. Constitution, Article 1 Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution, and the Administrative Procedure Act. And his actions will undoubtedly do nothing to fix our broken immigration system, but rather encourage more illegal immigration and only exacerbate the problem.” Not only does this check the power of Obama, it uses the power of the states to do so. More…