Never mind what I know about it. Andy McCarthy, just to cite one example, was interviewed by Megyn Kelly on that same network. McCarthy, unlike Perino, is a lawyer. He spent twenty years or more as a federal prosecutor, leading the prosecution of Abdel "The Blink Sheikh" Rahman and other conspirators in the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center. That experience gives him a very thorough knowledge of prosecutorial discretion, and he flatly disagrees with Ms. Perino's view.
So does John Yoo, a law professor at UC Berkeley School of Law. He and John Delahunty, another law professor who earlier served in the Justice Department as Yoo did, just wrote about this. This is from their article:
Prosecutorial discretion is indeed one of the president’s affirmative authorities and is rooted in the text of the Constitution. But its primary sphere of operation is in the criminal law. The executive’s power not to bring a criminal case even against a suspect who is likely to have committed a crime can be seen as a logical corollary of the president’s power to pardon. Clemency for those accused or convicted of crimes had long been considered an essential attribute of rulers, and the Framers vested that traditional authority in the president. Moreover, prosecutorial discretion in the criminal area makes sense in separation-of-powers terms: If Congress has enacted a criminal statute that is too harsh, or has become obsolete, or clearly was not intended to apply in a specific situation, prosecutorial discretion serves the constitutional goal of protecting individual liberty from the tyranny of one branch. But the Constitution provides no affirmative presidential power not to enforce the civil law as against a class of 5 million people. That is not “prosecutorial discretion”; it is simply the refusal to discharge a basic constitutional duty.
Why don't you just admit that like Mr. Obama, all you care about is getting the outcome you want, and that you don't give a tinker's damn whether getting it violates the Constitution? It's been clear to a lot of us for a long time now that Obama has nothing but contempt for the rule of law, for the Constitution, and for this country generally. The U.S. is now infested with millions of collectivist drones who feel the same way.