Obama has demonstrated that he doesn’t give one, let alone two, hoots about what any court in the US thinks.
The only thing that will stop him is impeachment and conviction; even then the military would probably have to forcibly remove Moochelle’s over-sized rear from Air Force One.
Regrettably, the Republican “leadership” in DC is hoping to tiptoe past all of the Obama scandals to ensure majorities in the House and Senate this November. My view is that it won’t happen—Open warfare against your base is never a good idea.
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An 'extremist' trend according to the left.
It is very important that conservatives question Republican presidential candidates about the powers of the office of the presidency. Would they be willing to work with congress to strongly restrain the presidency from engaging in unconstitutional acts?
If they say no, that they are wise enough to use the power wisely, they are wrong, and should be rejected. It is like a cocaine user saying that they are not addicted, they can quit anytime they like. The problem is not their strength of character, but that they snort cocaine in the first place.
Just give them a list of 10 assumed, not constitutional, presidential powers:
1) Outlaw land grabbing “presidential proclamations”, and ask congress to give the bulk of western lands back to the states.
2) Outlaw the use of “presidential signing statements” on new laws, in that they usurp both congressional and judicial powers.
3) Prohibit the appointment of “Czars” and recess appointments outside of an actual recess, and limited in duration to just the length of the recess. When the recess is over, the nominee appears before the senate, without further delay.
4) Create strict, mandatory guidelines for any declaration of “executive privilege”.
5) A full restoration of the Posse Comitatus Act. The US military is *not* to be used for any internal police matter.
6) A full restoration of the War Powers Act. Refusal to follow the timetable of the Act should result in the automatic loss of funding for all unapproved military actions.
7) Regulatory Agency De-militarization Act, to take away guns and SWAT teams from non-military, non-police federal agencies (currently proposed by Congressman Chris Stewart (R-UT)with a dozen co-sponsors.) Consolidation of the 100+ federal police agencies into about a dozen.
8) Structural reorganization of the federal judiciary to eliminate bottlenecks, most secret courts, and the diminution of civil rights through stare decisis (precedent).
9) Create a standing congressional committee whose purpose is to dismantle government agencies not authorized in the constitution, and to strip unconstitutional powers assumed by such agencies.
10) Make the last push for a balanced budget and line item veto amendment.
Kudos to the author of this for linking in the full text of the supreme court decisions. I wish more people would actually read them, rather than have the mediots telling them what they say.
That would-be dictator usurped his Constitutional boundaries a long time ago. Congress has totally failed their duty to protect our representative form of democracy.