[sickoflibs]

RE:”I am confident,” announced the president of the United States, “that the Supreme Court will not take what would be an unprecedented, extraordinary step of overturning a law that was passed by a strong majority of a democratically elected Congress.” And so it was on Monday that Barack Obama, anticipating a loss before the Supreme Court, added the third branch of government to the list of villains he will run against in his re-election campaign.
Many are saying the president should know Marbury v. Madison. He does. It doesn't matter. If something gets in his way, Barack Obama hammers it—whether courts or Congress. The left likes that. It remains to find out if the rest of the country wants the judicial and legislative branches subordinated to a national leader......
It appears to be unprecedented, however, for a U.S. president to have attacked the Supreme Court before it handed down its decision. Some think Mr. Obama and his progressive infantry are trying to intimidate the Justices, specifically Justice Anthony Kennedy. But most legal commentary has said the president's attack is likely to anger the justices, perhaps including some of the court's liberals. Mr. Obama’s notion of judicial review diminishes all the members of any court, not just its conservatives. It doesn't help the always difficult struggle for an independent judiciary in other countries if an American president is issuing Venezuela-like statements on U.S. courts.....
It was the Supreme Court's great debunker, Justice Antonin Scalia, who came closest in the ObamaCare oral arguments to pulling the curtain back on the Affordable Care Act's inner machinery. That was the moment when Justice Scalia asked: “What happened to the Eighth Amendment? You really want us to go through these 2,700 pages?”

Enjoyable read :

Henninger: The Supreme Court Lands in Oz Like the original wizard, Barack Obama doesn't want anyone to look behind the curtain.(direct link)

[July4]

If not for Affirmative Action, I suspect that Barack Obama would not be deemed qualified to teach high school civics, much less Constitutional Law. Something’s seriously out of whack: here's a man who has been exposed to the best education our nation has to offer, and he either does not grasp or refuses to acknowledge the basic tenets of our republic. Rush Limbaugh says it's a plan to appeal to stupid people by claiming that Obama gave them health care and the hateful Republican court took it away. Maybe. Or maybe, this president is just not the bright fellow he's claimed to be. Or, maybe, something truly evil.

[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

Many are saying the president should know Marbury v. Madison. He does. It doesn't matter. If something gets in his way, Barack Obama hammers it—whether courts or Congress. The left likes that. It remains to find out if the rest of the country wants the judicial and legislative branches subordinated to a national leader......