Grizz
01-02-2017, 07:00 PM
I’ve written (https://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/why-obama-strikes-out-court) exhaustively about this administration’s (https://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/why-obama-keeps-losing-supreme-court) sheer statistical failure (https://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/obama-flunks-constitutional-test) at the Supreme Court (https://object.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/serials/files/supreme-court-review/2015/9/2015-supreme-court-review-introduction.pdf). It has the worst record of any modern presidency, whether you count in absolute won-loss – where the solicitor general’s office struggles to get to 50 percent, against a historical norm of 70 percent – or by unanimous losses alone.
In the first 6.5 years of Obama’s presidency (January 2009 to June 2015), the government lost unanimously at the Supreme Court 23 times, an average of 3.62 cases per year.
In all 8 years of George W. Bush’s presidency, the government lost unanimously 15 times (1.875 cases per year).
In all 8 years of Bill Clinton’s presidency, the government lost 23 times (2.875 cases per year).
In other words, Obama has lost unanimously twice as often as Bush and 1.5 times as often as Clinton. Obama also passed Bush’s 8-year total in less than 5 years.
The Justice Department’s unanimous loss rate from 2012 to 2014 was especially bad – 13 cases in 30 months – almost three times Bush’s overall rate and almost twice Clinton’s (and that doesn’t count amicus litigating positions with unanimous losses).
https://www.cato.org/blog/obamas-abysmal-record-supreme-court
And yet the boy king claims to be a "Constitutional Scholar".
In the first 6.5 years of Obama’s presidency (January 2009 to June 2015), the government lost unanimously at the Supreme Court 23 times, an average of 3.62 cases per year.
In all 8 years of George W. Bush’s presidency, the government lost unanimously 15 times (1.875 cases per year).
In all 8 years of Bill Clinton’s presidency, the government lost 23 times (2.875 cases per year).
In other words, Obama has lost unanimously twice as often as Bush and 1.5 times as often as Clinton. Obama also passed Bush’s 8-year total in less than 5 years.
The Justice Department’s unanimous loss rate from 2012 to 2014 was especially bad – 13 cases in 30 months – almost three times Bush’s overall rate and almost twice Clinton’s (and that doesn’t count amicus litigating positions with unanimous losses).
https://www.cato.org/blog/obamas-abysmal-record-supreme-court
And yet the boy king claims to be a "Constitutional Scholar".