U.S. Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington January 6, 2014
Posted on 05/05/2014 3:33:46 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
The legal left and media are always last to know, but there are the makings of a correction in how the courts police conflicts between the political branches. President Obama's serial executive power abuses—on health care, immigration, marijuana and much else—may be inspiring a heathy rejoinder.
Under the Constitution, Congress is supposed to create and amend laws and the President to faithfully execute them, but Mr. Obama has grabbed inherent Article I powers by suspending or rewriting statutes he opposes. The President has usurped Congress with impunity because he assumes no one has the legal standing to challenge him.
Most of the time people who are exempted from laws do not suffer the concrete injuries that the judiciary can redress, while the courts maintain a presumption that Members of Congress also lack such standing. In 1997's Raines v. Byrd, the Supreme Court rejected a lawsuit against the line-item veto brought by six Congressmen because the loss of legislative power they challenged was a "wholly abstract and widely dispersed" injury.
But that doesn't mean that conduct that marginalizes the legislative branch is absolved of judicial review. In one notable case, Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson is suing the White House over the ObamaCare regulatory carve-out that conjured up special subsidies for Members and staffers who were supposed to give up federal employee health benefits to join the insurance exchanges.
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U.S. Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington January 6, 2014
Ron Johnson suing Obama. Read the whole thing. This is interesting and good on Ron!
FReep Mail me if you want on, or off, this Wisconsin interest jping list.
Just in case you’ve forgotten, Johnson is the legislator whose questions prompted Hillary’s outburst on Benghazi. (”What difference does it make?”)
Has Obama opened a monstronous Watergate that flooding the country with Crime coming from the White House, IRS, NSA, etc.
Maybe 1600 Penn Ave is now the home of Idiots-R-US, or is that the new name of the IRS.
[By the way, if the NSA does not stop MONKEYING with my FREE SPEECH POSTING, I will start posting about NSA CAPABILITIES]
[By the way, if the NSA does not stop MONKEYING with my FREE SPEECH POSTING, I will start posting about NSA CAPABILITIES]
Don’t make threats... just do it. Before you end up dead in a ditch for announcing that
Just as when Hillary was First Lady, Bill and Hillary referred to the Secret Service as their Personally Trained Pigs, maybe now the THE NSA is Obama's Personally Trained Pigs
I respectfully submit that a bunch of folks in Nevada with rifles are exerting subtle influence in a number of places. Things happening that might not otherwise. Keep up the good work! Prayers for them.
I have been a target before...
I just do care for the fact that Obama is targeting PROLIFERS, TEA PARTY, and other truly patriotic Americans...
Basically, NSA is getting into a serious monitoring mode when my typing on a 4G connection is like a 110 baud teletype...
> [By the way, if the NSA does not stop MONKEYING with my FREE SPEECH POSTING, I will start posting about NSA CAPABILITIES]
Don’t make threats... just do it. Before you end up dead in a ditch for announcing that
Wear a neck brace and drive an older vehicle...: )
So what if the Supreme Court rules against him...do they have the police force to enforce it?
>>The President thinks he can disregard the laws, but judges are paid to defend them.<<
The President DOES disregard the laws and Roberts is paid to defend HIM.
Thanks for posting this article! The WSJ sums the situation up neatly.
All y’all, ping to this post!
Of possible interest to the SCOTUS list.
Right you are.
Never telegraph your punches.
Congress did not have the police force to enforce to Contempt of Congress action against Holder. Or they won’t. Either way, Obama had Holder told them to kiss their ass.
” - - - The President thinks he can disregard the laws, but judges are paid to defend them. - - - “
Unless the Judges owe their lockstep loyalty to Obama for appointing them, such as NINE SUPREMES Chief Justice Traitor John Roberts.
Say what? Obama didn’t appoint Roberts.
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