Radio host and Fox News personality Sean Hannity applauded and seemingly claimed credit for a federal judge's district court ruling in Pennsylvania that found  President Obama's executive action deferring deportation for millions of undocumented family members of U.S. citizens or lawfully permanent residents to be unconstitutional. 

The Washington Post's Volokh Conspiracy blog reported that Judge Arthur Schwab, appointed to the federal bench by President George W. Bush, “declared aspects of President Obama's executive actions on immigration policy unconstitutional,” in a first of its kind opinion that is already being criticized for reaching beyond its scope to decide a constitutional question not before it.

Upon hearing Schwab's opinion, Sean Hannity wasted no time claiming partial credit for the decision. On the December 16 edition of The Sean Hannity Show, he said of the ruling, “I gotta tell you something, it almost could've been written by me, because he makes the very arguments that I had been making the entire time.”

Hannity's guest, Jamie Dupree, agreed that the ruling “echoes a lot of the arguments that Republicans have been making about these actions over the last few weeks.”

In fact, the Republican arguments, promoted incessantly by figures like Rush Limbaugh and Hannity, have been rejected as baseless by most legal experts across the political spectrum and President Obama's recent actions have ample precedent in the past executive actions of former presidents like Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush.