Two days ago, Judge Jerry Smith of the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals ordered the Department of Justice to explain whether the government agreed or disagreed that the federal courts have authority to invalidate laws they find to be beyond Congress’ constitutional authority. The order was specifically framed in the context of President Obama’s recent [...]
Writing in today’s Wall Street Journal, Laura Meckler documents the ways in which the Obama Administration has expanded executive powers.
This report in The National Law Journal details how the power of the prosecutor was abused in the Ted Stevens case. It should stand as a reminder of the fundamental importance of our constitutional guarantee of due process.
Newser reports [here] that General Motors is paying$182 million in bonuses to white collar workers and $332 million to factory workers. Many of those are the same people to whom the Obama Administration transferred stock values owned by investors. But not to worry. President Obama says[reported here] that unions are not “special interests.” It makes [...]
Originally published in The Daily Caller 2/28/12 – During last week’s Republican presidential debate in Arizona, Mitt Romney said: “I will repeal Obamacare.” In a February 4 tweet, Newt Gingrich said: “On day one I will repeal Obamacare.” In a campaign ad released on December 9, Rick Perry said: “I’m an outsider who will repeal [...]
Not the President, obviously. cnsnews.com reports [here] Obama’s latest thumbing of his nose to the Constitution. “When Congress refuses to act,” said the President, “Joe and I are going to act.”
“It’s halftime in America.” So said Clint Eastwood during a startling Super Bowl halftime ad. It was startling to hear that Detroit is now the symbol for American hope and prosperity. It was startling to hear that a unilateral, unauthorized acts by Presidents Bush and Obama are examples of everyone pulling together. It was startling [...]
The self-proclaimed whatever-it-takes approach to government that increasingly characterizes the Obama Administration philosophy of the Constitution is motivating the grassroots according to William McGurn writing in today’s Wall Street Journal. It is, says McGurn, an aspect of the Tea Party that has been overlooked by the left — to their peril.
President Obama has done it again. He has ignored the Constitution. Yesterday he made four “recess appointments” including of Richard Cordray as the first director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. “I won’t take no for an answer,” said the President. Pursuant to Article II, Section 2 of the Constitution, the president does have authority [...]
Ilya Shapiro, a senior fellow in constitutional studies at the Cato Institute, offers [here] his nominees for the top ten Obama Administration constitutional violations in today’s Daily Caller. Of course, Obamacare tops the list, and the sad truth is that there are many more actions that might have made the list.
Kimberly Strassel wrote in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal about Secretary of Energy Steven Chu’s testimony before a Congressional Committee. Judging from Chu’s testimony, he seems to view his role as CEO, rather than government official.
Under the Obama Administration, the very difficult job of the Border Patrol has increased and their ability to do their job is hindered. Four states have the greatest concentration of violence, crime and financial burdens due to the illegal immigration problems. California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas have enormous fiscal crises due to the federal [...]
Former Attorney General (and former Chief U.S. District Court Judge) Michael Mukasey has an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal that poses an important question: is the Obama Administration’s heavy reliance on targeted killing via unmanned aerial vehicles potentially compromising national security by eschewing the possibility of capturing targets and interrogating them for actionable intelligence? I think it’s [...]
A New York Times editorial criticizes the Obama Administration for classifying non-secrets, despite a promise to reduce reliance on the Espionage Act and other justifications for classifying government documents. What’s worse, in the particular case in question, is that the classified documents related to significant government waste — another thing the Administration promised to cut [...]
KRAUTHAMMER: This is Obama at his most sanctimonious, demagogic, self-righteous and arrogant. And given the baseline it wasn’t a pretty sight. Look, he started out by summoning the leaders of Congress — summoning them — at 11:00. Who does he think he is? In the American system, the executive and Congress are coequal. In a [...]
In a recent piece in the New York Review of Books, writer David Bromwich says, “…Obama has always preferred the symbolic authority of the grand utterance to the actual authority of a directed policy—a policy fought for in particulars, carefully sustained, and traceable to his own intentions.” He was talking about Obama’s recent rhetorical exchange [...]
