Posted on 07/10/2013 8:20:09 AM PDT by safetysign
It’s not so much that he thinks he’s above the law as that he thinks he is the law.
The duties of the President of the United States are spelled out in Article II, Section 3 of the Constitution, which states, inter alia, that the President “shall take Care that the laws be faithfully executed.” As Stanford Law Professor and former federal judge Michael McConnell explained in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal, “This is a duty, not a discretionary power. While the president does have substantial discretion about how to enforce a law, he has no discretion about whether to do so.”
Section 1513(d) of the Unaffordable Care Act (aka “Obamacare”) states unequivocally, “The amendments made by this section shall apply to months beginning after December 31, 2013.” In other words, the provisions of Obamacare become fully effective in 2014, as a matter of duly enacted federal law.
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Needle and all.
Given the current configuration of the Constitution, every 4 years we elect a dictator, not a president.
The only thing that has not surprised me is that he isn`t dead yet. They shot Lincoln and JFK for less.
Not that I condone obama`s head being blown up or anything horrible like that.
What is there to challenge in court? The law is the law. Obama’s decrees are not the law.
“Obama is not a King.”
That’s not what John Boehner says and he should know, he’s kissed the ring.
And he is as long as the spineless GOP 'leadership' let him get away with it.
Perhaps not ‘de jure’.
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