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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
“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......

41 posted on 06/09/2015 9:09:48 AM PDT by 48th SPS Crusader (I am an American. Not a Republican or a Democrat)
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To: pabianice

ESAD, Obama.


42 posted on 06/09/2015 9:10:28 AM PDT by ameribbean expat
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To: pabianice

I say, “Physician, heal thyself.”

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


43 posted on 06/09/2015 9:12:51 AM PDT by RinaseaofDs
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To: T-Bone Texan
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".
44 posted on 06/09/2015 9:27:17 AM PDT by Old Yeller (Civil rights are for civilized people.)
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To: llevrok
I heard he bought a bracelet while in Germany. WWAD (what would Adolph Do)

Commit suicide in a bunker.
45 posted on 06/09/2015 9:29:56 AM PDT by Old Yeller (Civil rights are for civilized people.)
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To: pabianice
“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.
46 posted on 06/09/2015 10:22:02 AM PDT by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
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To: Old Yeller
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.

47 posted on 06/09/2015 10:28:38 AM PDT by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
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To: pabianice
“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.

48 posted on 06/09/2015 10:33:26 AM PDT by NorthMountain ("The time has come", the Walrus said, "to talk of many things")
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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.


49 posted on 06/09/2015 10:45:07 AM PDT by kevao (Biblical Jesus: Give your money to the poor. Socialist Jesus: Give your neighbor's money to the poor)
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To: pabianice

“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.


50 posted on 06/09/2015 2:42:01 PM PDT by Hardens Hollow (Couldn't find Galt's Gulch, so created our own Harden's Hollow to quit paying the fascist beast.)
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To: llevrok

That’s way too accurate to be funny!


51 posted on 06/09/2015 2:46:19 PM PDT by Hardens Hollow (Couldn't find Galt's Gulch, so created our own Harden's Hollow to quit paying the fascist beast.)
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