Posted on 04/05/2012 6:07:31 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
(CNN) The Fifth Circuit's homework assignment to the Department of Justice is a disgrace -- an embarrassment to the federal judiciary. Still, it's a useful window on the contemporary merger of law and politics.
This is not judging. This is a judicial hissy fit. The Supreme Court will determine the constitutionality of the health care law, and the president will, as he must, abide by that judgment whether he agrees with it or not. In the meantime, however, the president, like all Americans, enjoys the right to express himself on what the court should do in that or any other case.
With its petulant order to the Justice Department, the Republican judges performed a peculiar, if useful, kind of service to the public -- reminding us of the partisan nature of much of the federal judiciary. The Supreme Court's decision in the health care case may offer a similar lesson.
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If Toobin doesn’t like it, there’s a great chance that it’s the right thing to do.
Lefties are just PO’d that their boyking is getting called on something.
You nailed it!
Everyone is just supposed to lie down and enjoy it.
Leni
This tv lawyer is so asinine!
More like face down with duct tape and just pray until it is over.
Seems to me the courts are our last line of defense against this tyrant. If they don’t act, who will? Certainly not Congress.
If the court wants the inJustice Department to show that it understands a legal position, it’s a “hissy fit.”
Unlike what zero does when he doesn’t get his way.
What would Toobin have said if President Bush had instructed the Supreme Court how they ought to rule on a pending case?
Yes the President does enjoy the right to express himself. The problem is he did it in front of a camera and this was the wrong thing to do. Can't this man just shut up let the courts do their thing?
Kirbdog
Ayup. And the boy king issued his directive to the media to fight back.
Three pages, single spaced, given hundreds of Ovomit’s sycophants working in the Department of Injustice, is nothing, not even a minor inconvenience. Too bad the judge doesn’t have the power to order Ovomit to write it himself. It would consume his time until the election is over, and be unreadable. Surveillance would be needed to make certain Bill Ayres didn’t sneak in a copy. As it is, I’ll be surprised if the three pages don’t arrive at the judges office on a teleprompter.
It would be a disgrace if the judiciary just rolled over and said nothing, just like Congress is doing with John Boehner.
You don’t diss judges appointed for life and expect otherwise.
They are the most unaccountable people there are serving this country, generally mature individuals and don’t take kindly to threats from a “boy”.
” - - - This is a judicial hissy fit.”
HEY! JEFFREY TOBIN, YEAH YOU!!!!
What is a “hissy fit” to you is an act of courage by those of us who see Obama to be the Dictator destroyer of our Republic.
You, and the rest of the LAM (Liberal Agenda Media) chose to be APATHETIC towards critically evaluating Obama.
You, and the rest of the LAM have proven yourselves to be outside of the Mainstream of American fundamental values. Therefore, the term “MSM” will no longer be applied to y’all by me.
BTW, was tax money used to pay the LAM to be apathetic towards being critical of Despots, or is this just what they teach in Journalism schools now?
So, the judicial order is a “hissy-fit” but Idi Obama throwing temper tantrums is adult behavior?
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