Obama and SCOTUS

[Peter1469]

Obama and SCOTUS (http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/381302/obama-suffers-12th-unanimous-defeat-supreme-court-joel-gehrke)

What a failure this administration is.


President Obama’s team suffered their twelfth unanimous defeat at the Supreme Court in the legal challenge to the so-called recess appointments made when Congress was not actually in recess, a string of defeats that only represents “the tip of the iceberg,” according to Senator Mike Lee (R., Utah).


“Not every case in which the president has exceeded his authority has made it all the way to the Supreme Court,” Lee, a former law clerk to Justice Samuel Alito, told National Review Online. “The fact that his track record is as bad as it is in the Supreme Court . . . is yet another indication of the fact that we’ve got a president who is playing fast and loose with the Constitution.”


Senator Ted Cruz (R., Texas), in arguing that Obama is “lawless,” has kept a tally of the president’s unanimous defeats. ”This marks the twelfth time since January 2012 that the Supreme Court has unanimously rejected the Obama administration’s calls for greater federal executive power,” he pointed out after the release of the recess-appointments ruling.


Cruz issued a report on Obama’s unanimous defeats when the total sat at nine. “If the Department of Justice had won these cases, the federal government would be able to electronically track all of our movements, fine us without a fair hearing, dictate who churches choose as ministers, displace state laws based on the president’s whims, bring debilitating lawsuits against individuals based on events that occurred years ago, and destroy a person’s private property without just compensation,” Cruz wrote in April 2013 (http://www.cruz.senate.gov/files/documents/The%20Legal%20Limit/The%20Legal%20Limit%20Report%201.pdf).


“When President Obama’s own Supreme Court nominees join their colleagues in unanimously rejecting the administration’s call for broader federal power nine times in 18 months, the inescapable conclusion is that the Obama administration’s view of federal power knows virtually no bounds,” he concluded.

[midcan5]

President Obama faces the same situation FDR faced, a conservative court that stops all sensible progress, a corporatist court that aligns itself with money interests. FDR tries to stack the court, progressive policy today suffers from the meat-heads Bush appointed. Federal judges form the foundation for justice, ideologues of the right have proven throughout history they stand for nothing good. What can our President do except accept progress is a slow process, Hillary may have the opportunity to move America forward. Money has great power in America as 'citizens united' demonstrated.

Edit: And national Review institute is another tax exempt front for BS. Is it any wonder the right wing wants to control the IRS power to call them out as political front organizations?

[Peter1469]

FDR faced a Court that believed in the US Constitution. So FDR intimidated them with his court packing scheme, and in 1937, the Court started to lick his boots. America has never been the same since.


President Obama faces the same situation FDR faced, a conservative court that stops all sensible progress, a corporatist court that aligns itself with money interests. FDR tries to stack the court, progressive policy today suffers from the meat-heads Bush appointed. Federal judges form the foundation for justice, ideologues of the right have proven throughout history they stand for nothing good. What can our President do except accept progress is a slow process, Hillary may have the opportunity to move America forward. Money has great power in America as 'citizens united' demonstrated.

Edit: And national Review institute is another tax exempt front for BS. Is it any wonder the right wing wants to control the IRS power to call them out as political front organizations?

[Matty]

The next two years will see the impeachment of both Holder and Obama. Their Chicago way of doing things isn't going over too well. The lies, scandal, corruption and cover ups have reached critical mass. I cannot wait until November.

[Chris]

President Obama faces the same situation FDR faced, a conservative court that stops all sensible progress, a corporatist court that aligns itself with money interests. FDR tries to stack the court, progressive policy today suffers from the meat-heads Bush appointed. Federal judges form the foundation for justice, ideologues of the right have proven throughout history they stand for nothing good. What can our President do except accept progress is a slow process, Hillary may have the opportunity to move America forward. Money has great power in America as 'citizens united' demonstrated.

Edit: And national Review institute is another tax exempt front for BS. Is it any wonder the right wing wants to control the IRS power to call them out as political front organizations?


One, the court is not conservative, it's divided. Two, neither FDR's nor Obama's central planning is sensible, it's progressive. Three, you misuse the word corporatist when you should use crony--Obama the biggest of all. Four, we know you're a disappointed progressive.

[zelmo1234]

President Obama faces the same situation FDR faced, a conservative court that stops all sensible progress, a corporatist court that aligns itself with money interests. FDR tries to stack the court, progressive policy today suffers from the meat-heads Bush appointed. Federal judges form the foundation for justice, ideologues of the right have proven throughout history they stand for nothing good. What can our President do except accept progress is a slow process, Hillary may have the opportunity to move America forward. Money has great power in America as 'citizens united' demonstrated.

Edit: And national Review institute is another tax exempt front for BS. Is it any wonder the right wing wants to control the IRS power to call them out as political front organizations?

Funny is it not that not only do the 4 conservatives vote against him, but the 4 liberals and the independent vote against him too?


Why is that Midcan? why is it that the liberals say? NO Mr. President you are not a king

You know Reagan, Clinton and GWB had a congress that was the opposition party, yet they worked with and compromised to get things done, and of course the partisan stuff just cold not get passed. Why is it that Obama not only refuses to work with the opposition, but try to force the partisan stuff on the American people by Executive Order?

That is the problem with this President

[zelmo1234]

FDR faced a Court that believed in the US Constitution. So FDR intimidated them with his court packing scheme, and in 1937, the Court started to lick his boots. America has never been the same since.

See you are reading the wrong History of the USA

You need to get the new and improved liberal version, it is widely accepted under the common core educational system :)

[zelmo1234]

The next two years will see the impeachment of both Holder and Obama. Their Chicago way of doing things isn't going over too well. The lies, scandal, corruption and cover ups have reached critical mass. I cannot wait until November.

I actually think that You may be right on Holder, but he will just step down, and it will be over. Obama, makes NO sense!

[Mainecoons]

President Obama faces the same situation FDR faced, a conservative court that stops all sensible progress, a corporatist court that aligns itself with money interests. FDR tries to stack the court, progressive policy today suffers from the meat-heads Bush appointed. Federal judges form the foundation for justice, ideologues of the right have proven throughout history they stand for nothing good. What can our President do except accept progress is a slow process, Hillary may have the opportunity to move America forward. Money has great power in America as 'citizens united' demonstrated.

Edit: And national Review institute is another tax exempt front for BS. Is it any wonder the right wing wants to control the IRS power to call them out as political front organizations?

You are the most amazing demonstration of the propagandized brain and stinking thinking I've ever seen on this board.

The "conservative court" has been handing down UNANIMOUS decisions (that includes the liberals and Obama's own appointees) against Obama's attempts to circumvent the rule of law.

DOOH!

[Chris]

What we have here is a president, like FDR, who thinks he's above the Constitution, above even the normal day-to-day stretching and distortion of it.

[Perianne]

What we have here is a president, like FDR, who thinks he's above the Constitution, above even the normal day-to-day stretching and distortion of it.

Chris, if we were to meet in real life, I think we would be fast friends.

[Chris]

Here's the thing, too, don't get me wrong, this topic is about Obama, but it could as well be about Bush, or most any president. They have all done this. Power accrues as it corrupts. At, it seems, an increasing rate.

[Redrose]

The next two years will see the impeachment of both Holder and Obama. Their Chicago way of doing things isn't going over too well. The lies, scandal, corruption and cover ups have reached critical mass. I cannot wait until November.

I'm almost hoping that doesn't happen with Obama, Holder can go, he's a major dick. If the Congress is successful in getting O out of office, his base will have him canonized, he will eclipse Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. as their hero. They would have the state of Illinois renamed Obamastad. Let him finish his term, pull the reigns in on his ability to abuse power, and let him slink into obscurity as the worst president in our history. Amen

Hopefully, superficial generations will never vote for a president again with no experience running anything, no established record, an obscured past, just because he's COOL. He's not cool...David Beckham is cool but I still wouldn't vote for him for president.