Posted on 06/18/2012 1:08:53 PM PDT by jazusamo
BUMP!
I don’t believe such a suit would be allowed by the judicial system to go forward.
To file a suit at all, in the first place, you need legal standing. There has to be a firm foundation proffered that you deserve your day in court against that defendant, or it gets tossed.
I don’t see how you tie Obama directly and specifically to an individual incident well enough to even get standing to sue.
You say, but for Obama not performing his executive duties, this illegal driving drunk and killing someone is less likely to have happened.
But in a lawsuit you really need precision, and I don’t think you get it with most such cases.
I think the courts would view such complaints as matters of policy differences (to be hashed out in general in our system of governance), agree or disagree with what Obama is trying to do, rather than the President being held liable for an incident because of his policy.
Obama may be deserving of a lawsuit but in some peoples views all presidents may have been negligent in their policies and it would open the door to thousands of suits.
The recourse on a turkey like Obama is in the House and Senate by impeachment and we know that isn't going to happen. The other is the peoples recourse at the ballot box and that's looking pretty good at this time.
The pleasure is mine, TOL. :-)
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