Obama’s frustration with courts bursts into public view

The Hill ^ | 6/9/15 | Fabian

[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.

[48th SPS Crusader]

“This should be an easy case; frankly it shouldn't have even been taken up,” Obama said

Wow. No ego or delusion of grandeur there......

[ameribbean expat]

ESAD, Obama.

[RinaseaofDs]

I say, “Physician, heal thyself.”

Ostensibly, he’s a constitutional law professor. He skip the class on separation of powers, 10th amendment, etc?

[Old Yeller]

Obama should face the fact that America does not want him at their neighborhood pool.

Money quote of the day. Only I would add, "unless he swims like a bowling ball, in which case throw him in the deep end".

[Old Yeller]

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

Commit suicide in a bunker.

[Pollster1]

“This should be an easy case; frankly it shouldn't have even been taken up,” Agreed. The Enumerated Powers do not mention meddling in our purchasing decisions by mandating that we buy a product we don't want. Obamacare is unconstitutional and never should have been proposed, passed, or signed. If either Congress or the White House had done their job, there would have been no case to take up.

[Pollster1]

Money quote of the day. Only I would add, "unless he swims like a bowling ball, in which case throw him in the deep end".

Obama is not a fan of water, except for splashing (no more than ankle deep) or long walks with a "friend" along the shore.

[NorthMountain]

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

Oh, yes. Much better to make him God-Emperor Bararckula, and give him unlimited, unquestioned, unanswerable power over all things great and small.

[kevao]

Why does the whiner-in-chief care about the SCOTUS ruling? Worst case, he knows he can easily bully the GOP-e Congress into passing a fix. They’ve been working on a draft bill for weeks already. I believe Sen. Ron Johnson — erstwhile Tea Party darling from WI — is the author.

[Hardens Hollow]

“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.”

Wow, overtly clear that the Fuhrer is now telling the 3rd branch they are irrelevant. He already did that with Congress by signing EOs.

[Hardens Hollow]

That’s way too accurate to be funny!