The “Imperial Presidency” has only come to existence because Congress has been too cowardly to stand up to usurpation of their powers since FDR.
The checks and balances fail when the other two branches fail to do their job.
How can he expect people to follow the law, when he does not? Walk the walk, if you are going to talk the talk. Holder doesn’t follow the law and he is hired to enforce it.
He has the same contempt for the judiciary as he does for the congress.
This is far from over. Yesterday our side managed to get the evidence on record for the first time. Obama didn’t cite legal cause for not showing up, even if the judge would have agreed with him — they made a tactical error. And there are many other states.
Now the judge will make a recommendation to the GA SoS. Hopefully this one hasn’t been corrupted by the Soros project yet.
Defiance of a subpoena is either a crime or a misdemeanor. Either of which is an impeachable offense. The House should just add it to the list. Someday they should publish all of his impeachable offenses.
Politically, it would be silly to start impeachment before the election. That would consolidate 0bama’s support and possibly win him some sympathy votes.
The old saying is don’t try to remove a king unless you can completely remove him. Failure to remove him just makes him stronger and meaner.
Defiance of a subpoena is either a crime or a misdemeanor. Either of which is an impeachable offense. The House should just add it to the list. Someday they should publish all of his impeachable offenses.
Politically, it would be silly to start impeachment before the election. That would consolidate 0bama’s support and possibly win him some sympathy votes.
The old saying is don’t try to remove a king unless you can completely remove him. Failure to remove him just makes him stronger and meaner.
That’s because Obama thinks he is a God for whom all else exists. He does not recognize legal authority.
All 3 branches are dead. It’s close to time to prune the tree of liberty. The totalitarians have taken turns triangulating “we the people”.
I have said all along, this man could not be president without the cooperation of the RINO establishment.
No Controlling Legal Authority, it is the democratic party way.
The Georgia hearing was not in a court proceeding and did not involve the judicial branch of either the US or Georgia governments. It was an administrative hearing.
Scholars have missed this ultimate check and balance in the "silence of the Constitution". No state can keep any legal candidate off the ballot, but a state can keep anyone off the ballot who does not provide legal documentation they are qualified to be President. That is the Constitution at it's core in the Articles concerning the Presidency. 49 states can state a fraud can be President in their super majority, but if one state demands proof and the candidate does not provide that legal proof, the one state in checks and balances can negate a national Presidential Election.
...The experts will try to state that …….. can not override a majority vote by 49 other states, ……………..A President must be accepted by all 50 states according to legal Constitutional requirements. Any subject failing to provide natural born status can legally be rejected by any one state, and that one state in its minority rights will negate the other 49 states in the check and balance the Founders left silently in the Constitution to protect America from threats domestic and foreign.
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In a pre-trial conference the judge offered to enter a default judgement agains’t Obama yesterday. However the plaintiff’s attorneys wanted to go ahead and present their evidence and witnesses in case Barry appeal the decision.
Likely the judge will issue and initial decision on FEb 1-2 and send it along with supporting docs to the GA SOS Brian Kemp who will review everything and issue a final decision by the 3rd or 4th. Smart money says they are going to keep Barry off the GA ballot.
Obama’s behavior yesterday is even more disturbing than Nixon’s. Nixon at least respected the judicial branch enough to have his attorney’s show up in court and follow procedure. Nixon’s fight in the courts followed existing law. Nixon acknowledged the authority of the judicial branch even while he fought it. Obama, on the other hand, essentially said yesterday that the judicial branch has no power over him. He ordered his attorneys to stay away from the hearing. He didn’t petition a higher court in a legitimate attempt to stay the hearing. Instead he showed complete contempt for the entire judicial branch and for the rule of law. Rather than respecting the legal process, Obama went around the courts and tried to put political pressure directly on the Georgia Secretary of State. When that failed, he simply ignored the judicial branch completely.
The rule of law, and our three-branch system of government, now hang in the balance. If the Georgia court issues a ruling on the merits and an order finding Obama in contempt of court, and if that contempt order actually results in real punishment of some kind, then we will still have a Constitutional Republic. If this doesn’t happen, then Obama will have been rewarded for showing complete contempt for the judicial branch.
Understand that the goal of the Georgia ballot challenge was to have a court rule on the merits of the Constitutional question: Does the term “natural born citizen” in Article II of the Constitution require a Presidential candidate to have two parents that were U.S. citizens at the time the candidate was born? Obama wants to avoid having a court rule on this question. That is why he didn’t show up and ordered his attorneys to not show up. Obama was hoping that the Georgia court would enter a default judgment rather than rule on the merits. If the court enters a default judgment, Obama will have succeeded in avoiding the Constitutional eligibility question. He will then appeal the default judgment, get the appellate court to suspend the default judgment pending appeal, and then delay the appeal until after the primary. This is undoubtedly Obama’s plan.
If the Georgia Court rules that Supreme Court precedent must be followed and therefore Obama simply does not meet the minimum Constitutional requirements to hold the office of President, then we will at least have succeeded in finding one court in the nation willing to do its job. If that court finds Obama in contempt of court, then we still have three viable branches of government. The Georgia court has the authority to do both of these things. The world should be holding its breath.
Unfortunately the world is apparently unaware that our great Republic is on life support. The Roman Empire died a slow death. It’s death was so gradual that few people living at that time probably noticed the individual events that marked the death throes of that great empire. Apparently the same is true of America. Yesterday marked a stunning turn of events in the constant power struggle between the three branches of our government. Our President openly showed that he believes he is completely above the law. I wonder if the court even noticed its own death certificate. We will see in a few days.
I will certainly try to explain this to the court in our proposed findings of fact and law that the court requested we file before February 5th. Please pray with me that Judge Malihi rules on the merits of our case.
All of your encouragement and prayers have been greatly appreciated. They are needed even more over the next few weeks. This battle is FAR from over. And it has taken on importance beyond what we predicted (which is truly astounding). Please tell everyone you know about Obama’s contempt of the judicial branch. Please explain to them what it really means. Even those that agree with Obama politically and disagree with our ballot challenge should be shocked, appalled, and scared of Obama’s contempt for the judicial system.