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Obama’s frustration with courts bursts into public view
The Hill ^ | 6/9/15 | Fabian

Posted on 06/09/2015 7:20:25 AM PDT by pabianice

President Obama’s frustration that the federal courts could unwind much of his legacy burst into public display on Monday.

In some of his toughest and bluntest comments to date, Obama said the Supreme Court should not even have accepted a case challenging his signature healthcare law.

“This should be an easy case; frankly it shouldn't have even been taken up,” Obama said during a news conference in Germany at the Group of Seven (G-7) summit of leading industrial democracies.

The King vs. Burwell decision, expected later this month, could deliver a lethal blow to ObamaCare by ruling that federal subsidies, granted to nearly 6.4 million people to purchase insurance, are illegal.

It’s just one of several legal challenges to his agenda that have clearly got under the president’s skin. Obama also expressed frustration with lower courts for blocking executive actions intended to allow millions of immigrants to apply for deportation relief.

And the high court is expected to rule this month on a challenge to the Environmental Protection Agency’s first limits on mercury and other toxic emissions from power plants, one of Obama’s most aggressive moves to address climate change.

“It’s hugely frustrating for the president,” said Julian Zelizer, professor of public affairs at Princeton University.

(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: frustration; obama; obamacare; scotus
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To: pabianice

Dashing his mentor’s plans for the NWO and not getting the full commission must suck for the Anti-American president...


21 posted on 06/09/2015 7:38:34 AM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: Genoa

22 posted on 06/09/2015 7:38:49 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: pabianice

Punk president.


23 posted on 06/09/2015 7:38:52 AM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Romans 1:22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools)
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To: pabianice

One of the few remaining bones of the Constitution sticks in the emperor’s craw.


24 posted on 06/09/2015 7:40:09 AM PDT by EternalVigilance (To accept unconstitutional programs is to accept unlimited government, in other words a coup d'etat.)
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To: pabianice
“This should be an easy case; frankly it shouldn't have even been taken up,” Obama said

There, the old Obama Arrogance - just doomed ObamaCare. That same arrogance that doomed every NCAA bracket pick, there bragging that Chicago would be selected for the 2016 Olympics, there bragging that Democrats would win the 2014 elections, there in so many other instances.

ObamaCare is now doomed by Obama's own leaden touch, I tell ya. You heard it here first!


25 posted on 06/09/2015 7:43:52 AM PDT by canuck_conservative
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To: SMARTY

26 posted on 06/09/2015 7:44:49 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: headstamp 2

I heard he bought a bracelet while in Germany. WWAD (what would Adolph Do)


27 posted on 06/09/2015 7:47:14 AM PDT by llevrok (To liberals, Treason Is the New Patriotism)
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To: canuck_conservative
ObamaCare is now doomed by Obama's own leaden touch, I tell ya. You heard it here first!

From your mouth to Gods ear.

28 posted on 06/09/2015 7:48:51 AM PDT by KirbDog
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To: KirbDog

Zerocare, amnesty and the admin’s protection of conservative-persecuting IRS all blowing up spectacularly right before the 4th of July!

Huzzah!


29 posted on 06/09/2015 7:57:48 AM PDT by txhurl
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To: KirbDog; canuck_conservative

I say the SC upholds the subsidies - Obama wins and once again, he surprises all of us


30 posted on 06/09/2015 7:59:11 AM PDT by atc23 (The Confederacy was the single greatest conservative resistance to federal authority ever)
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To: pabianice

Somebody should send him the official butt hurt report form. Maybe to his “official” twitter account.


31 posted on 06/09/2015 8:01:45 AM PDT by Hoffer Rand (Bear His image. Bring His message. Be the Church.)
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To: pabianice

Correction: He is ONLY frustrated when they DO NOT give him what he wants by legislating from the bench

Otherwise he’s as happy as a clam with them

(are clams really that happy?)


32 posted on 06/09/2015 8:06:46 AM PDT by Mr. K (Palin/Cruz - to defeat HilLIARy/Warren)
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To: Zathras
Awwww, Obama has a boo boo. Maybe Pelosi will kiss it and make it feel better.

... Only if the boo boo is on his ass.

33 posted on 06/09/2015 8:10:37 AM PDT by dearolddad (/i>)
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To: pabianice
Behold the Constitutional Law Professor lecturing on the Supreme Court:


34 posted on 06/09/2015 8:13:02 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: BenLurkin

What’s the image?


35 posted on 06/09/2015 8:29:13 AM PDT by SMARTY ("When you blame others, you give up your power to change." Robert Anthony)
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To: pabianice

What a whinging sissy Obungler is.


36 posted on 06/09/2015 8:37:00 AM PDT by jospehm20
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To: pabianice

Boo friggin’ hoo.


37 posted on 06/09/2015 8:37:21 AM PDT by Real Cynic No More (Border Fence Obamacare!)
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To: atc23
I say the SC upholds the subsidies

I say they don't but the GOPe will save him again and fund the subsidies.

38 posted on 06/09/2015 8:45:15 AM PDT by itsahoot (55 years a republican-Now Independent. Will write in Sarah Palin, no matter who runs. RIH-GOP)
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To: pabianice
“This should be an easy case; frankly it shouldn't have even been taken up,” Obama said...

It is an easy case. The plain language of the statute is clear, the legislative intent and history is clear, the IRS regulations , prior to being "set straight" by the political apparatchiks in the treasury were clear, and we have video of the principal architect of the law explaining why subsidies were only going to be given to residents of states which have their own insurance exchanges. Nothing could be clearer, it ought to be a slam dunk.

The astonishing thing is there will be members of the Supreme Court who will find a way to get around the unimpeachable evidence before them.

I have difficulty deciding if this guy is evil, knowing he is lying or stupid, believing he is telling the truth.

39 posted on 06/09/2015 8:50:55 AM PDT by Timocrat (Ingnorantia non excusat)
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To: itsahoot
I say they don't but the GOPe will save him again and fund the subsidies.

yeah, the GOP thinks they'll get a single vote from the "disenfranchised" "poor" and "people of color" if they do. Laughable how stupid they are.

40 posted on 06/09/2015 8:53:50 AM PDT by atc23 (The Confederacy was the single greatest conservative resistance to federal authority ever)
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