Posted on 01/05/2016 7:54:48 AM PST by amorphous
A powerful House Republican is threatening to block President Obama's executive order on guns by defunding the Department of Justice (DOJ).
In a letter to Attorney General Loretta Lynch, Rep. John Culberson (R-Texas), chairman of the Appropriations subcommittee that oversees the Justice Department, warned against enforcing the new gun restrictions.
"The next twelve months will be an especially dangerous time for Americans who treasure our Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms," Culberson said.
"I have formally notified Attorney General Lynch that I will aggressively protect our Second Amendment rights using Congress' power of the purse," he added. "I notified the attorney general that if the Department of Justice attempted to create new restrictions on our Constitutional rights that I would use every tool at my disposal to immediately restrict their access to federal funding."
Culberson appears to be the first Republican to call to block DOJ funding over the executive action on guns.
In future budget agreements, House appropriators could specifically prohibit the Justice Department from enforcing the gun restrictions without defunding the entire agency.
Culberson warned Lynch not to "create new law" in his letter.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
He accused Obama of "subverting" Congress by taking executive action on gun control.
So Ryan spoke...he will cave to whatever obumbles wants
Wow. A letter. Harsh words. What next in this dog-and-pony show by the Unipartytards?
They all must support some gun control or they would have been actively working to remove some of the unconstitutional laws on the books now.
Uh huh. Count me a skeptic. I’ll wait to see how firm or squishy they are after the first adverse editorial.
Way too much posturing and posing for holy pictures and then willfully capitulating behind the scenes with the GOPe.
republicans have no backbone whatsoever......they will do nothing.
Just words.
*YAWN*
Wake me when we have a new President and have shed a bunch of RINOs from the House and Senate.
(But, if it’s Hillary! smother me in my sleep with a pillow, LOL!)
A member of Congress exercising “oversight” against an overreaching Executive. What a concept.
Loretta Lynch will next accuse him of acting like a “white overseer.”
Dad always taught me to look at what people do, not what they say. The congressional congress gives BHO all the funding he wants, that is what they do.
News flash gentleman: Obama’s EO threatens not only 2nd Amendment liberties, but also the 4th, 5th and 14th amendments at a minimum.
Believing your statement has never failed in the many years of watching the Republicans.
The DOJ is Obama’s center for community organizing and agitation.
He can organize and let #BLM loose, knowing that the DOJ and FBI will have final say over how local police deal with them. This is all planned in advance.
It is the same with CAIR and Obama’s decision to make them the one voice of “Muslim America” - that is also coordinated through the DOJ.
Don't worry. Congress has your back........ which they have repeatedly stabbed.
The president and congress continue to play “chicken” with the economy. Looks like the president finally found an issue that he can use to scapegoat congress for the coming economic collapse.
NRA will be pressing hard behind the scenes for something to be done.
Time to also defund the EPA
That term has entered the general lexicon of F.R. and if Rush Limbaugh or Sarah Palin ever pick it up (I know they have seen it here on F.R.) Than it will enter the Wider Conservative Vocabulary.
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