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11-15-2014, 11:11 AM
Boehner's pretend lawsuit against Obama Just. Got. Bigger. Now if he'd just remember to file it ... (http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/11/14/1344858/-Boehner-s-pretend-lawsuit-against-Obama-Just-Got-Bigger-Now-if-he-d-just-remember-to-file-it)
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House Speaker John Boehner doesn't want President Obama to take the action on immigration reform that congressional Republicans won't, and Republicans are considering a lawsuit against Obama (http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/boehner-weighs-expanding-suit-over-obama-executive-powers-to-cover-immigration/2014/11/13/13ef6d72-6b8a-11e4-a31c-77759fc1eacc_story.html) if he does anything they don't want him to do on immigration. Which means, if he does anything. If you're thinking "hasn't John Boehner been threatening to sue the president for a while?," you're absolutely right. He just keeps changing his mind about why.
Boehner first announced plans to initiate a federal suit against Obama in late June, when he called the president’s executive orders an unconstitutional power grab by one branch of government.
But the suit has wallowed ever since as GOP lawmakers have struggled to find a D.C. area law firm willing to take up their legal fight. In recent weeks, many observers have speculated privately that Boehner was purposely stalling his legal fight to include whatever actions Obama opts to take to overhaul the nation’s immigration laws.
At one point, the plan was to sue Obama to force him to immediately impose the Affordable Care Act's employer mandate before January 1, 2015, but time ran out on that one (http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/10/27/1333686/-Oops-John-Boehner-appears-to-have-forgotten-to-file-his-lawsuit-to-stop-Obama-s-dictatorship), so immigration it is. Maybe. If Republicans get their act together and any law firm will take them as a client, that is.
Or maybe Boehner will just keep showboating about what a lawbreaker Obama is, thereby keeping the extremists of his caucus from the politically disastrous (for themselves) move of attempting to impeach the president. Because as far as Obama is concerned, this isn't much of a threat. It really boils down to "We will make ourselves look bad with a legally dubious case if you do something that voters want (http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/11/06/1342635/-Boehner-says-nothing-will-happen-with-immigration-if-something-happens-on-immigration) that we have refused to do. And we will refuse to work with you on other things, just like we've already been refusing to work with you for years."
Ooh, scary. :laugh:
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House Speaker John Boehner doesn't want President Obama to take the action on immigration reform that congressional Republicans won't, and Republicans are considering a lawsuit against Obama (http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/boehner-weighs-expanding-suit-over-obama-executive-powers-to-cover-immigration/2014/11/13/13ef6d72-6b8a-11e4-a31c-77759fc1eacc_story.html) if he does anything they don't want him to do on immigration. Which means, if he does anything. If you're thinking "hasn't John Boehner been threatening to sue the president for a while?," you're absolutely right. He just keeps changing his mind about why.
Boehner first announced plans to initiate a federal suit against Obama in late June, when he called the president’s executive orders an unconstitutional power grab by one branch of government.
But the suit has wallowed ever since as GOP lawmakers have struggled to find a D.C. area law firm willing to take up their legal fight. In recent weeks, many observers have speculated privately that Boehner was purposely stalling his legal fight to include whatever actions Obama opts to take to overhaul the nation’s immigration laws.
At one point, the plan was to sue Obama to force him to immediately impose the Affordable Care Act's employer mandate before January 1, 2015, but time ran out on that one (http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/10/27/1333686/-Oops-John-Boehner-appears-to-have-forgotten-to-file-his-lawsuit-to-stop-Obama-s-dictatorship), so immigration it is. Maybe. If Republicans get their act together and any law firm will take them as a client, that is.
Or maybe Boehner will just keep showboating about what a lawbreaker Obama is, thereby keeping the extremists of his caucus from the politically disastrous (for themselves) move of attempting to impeach the president. Because as far as Obama is concerned, this isn't much of a threat. It really boils down to "We will make ourselves look bad with a legally dubious case if you do something that voters want (http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/11/06/1342635/-Boehner-says-nothing-will-happen-with-immigration-if-something-happens-on-immigration) that we have refused to do. And we will refuse to work with you on other things, just like we've already been refusing to work with you for years."
Ooh, scary. :laugh: