Posted on 12/03/2013 9:22:23 AM PST by mojito
The House Judiciary Committee is about to discuss what it calls “The President’s Constitutional Duty to Faithfully Execute the Laws,” focusing on the Obamacare delays, enforcement of immigration laws, and more. As Mediaite notes, the question of whether the president can take unilateral action to cease enforcing laws stretches back at least to last summer, when President Barack Obama said he would stop deporting young undocumented immigrants, an end-run around congressional refusal to pass the DREAM Act.
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Bump. I've stopped watching these meaningless hearings, nothing ever happens, no one is held accountable.
Trent Franks talking about how Obamacare violates the Origination Clause in the U.S. Constitution. Michael Cannon is backing up his point. The senate did not have the authority to originate a revenue raising bill. Consequently, the courts should strike down the entire law:
http://beta.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/house-resolution/153
October 5, 2013 4:00 AM
Obamacare’s Unconstitutional Origins
Tax legislation has to originate in the House; the health-care law didn’t.
By Andrew C. McCarthy
http://www.nationalreview.com/node/360460/print
Laying the groundwork for articles of Impeachment.
October 5, 2013 4:00 AM
Obamacare’s Unconstitutional Origins
Tax legislation has to originate in the House; the health-care law didn’t.
By Andrew C. McCarthy
http://www.nationalreview.com/node/360460/print
(excerpt)
Representative Franks has introduced a resolution (H.R. 153) expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the Obamacare legislation clearly violated the Origination Clause. The measure is gaining momentum. As it rapidly picks up co-signers, the resolution should materially advance the cases filed against Obamacare, including one to be argued this fall in the D.C. Circuit federal appeals court. After all, if a statute violates the Origination Clause, it is a nullity — invalid from the moment of enactment.
Nevertheless, Republicans should not make the same mistake they made during prior legal challenges to Obamacare. This is not a time for leaders once again to sit idly by with fingers crossed, praying that judges do the heavy lifting for them. The legerdemain that characterized Obamacare’s passage, coupled with its patent lack of constitutional legitimacy, should stiffen the resolve of the House to refuse funding — as it is the House’s prerogative to do.
Once again, the president is not telling the truth about Obamacare. The Supreme Court did not endorse it. The Supreme Court said it could only conceivably be sustained as a tax. It still had to pass the Constitution’s tests for valid taxation. It failed.
For those who are unfamiliar with it:
Quo warranto (Medieval Latin for "by what warrant?") is a prerogative writ requiring the person to whom it is directed to show what authority they have for exercising some right or power (or "franchise") they claim to hold.
Lazarus is getting ripped a new one.
DeSantis is acting like a complete asshole.
Gohmert now talking about unconstitutional military action (Libya and Syria).
Gohmert now positing whether Obama can kill Americans on American soil with drones.
Best question of the hearing-
Blake Farenthold: “In light of all these ‘things’, WHAT CAN WE DO ABOUT IT ?”
Also ducked out on the Defense of Marriage Act.
The law is nothing but a piece of paper and he read once that a hero ain’t nothing but a sandwich.
Lol, Democrat doesn’t know what a Constitutional Convention is.
Now Democrat trying to lead others about impeachment.
Democrats asks whether Obama is guilty of impeachable offenses.
Panel takes a minute of silence to consider whether they wanted to get audited or shot.
The House writes the checks - NO CHECKS should be written to Obama, his staff, his projects, anything...just Defense and the basic programs...we NEED th SHUT DOWN this entire CORRUPT GOV’T...
Yes, you are right. Hussein does whatever he wants and orders Reid to do it if it involves the senate. Hussein ignores the house since it isn’t his.
The GOPe doesn’t seem to mind the lack of border/immigration law enforcement
I hope someone will find and post (ping me please) the video of Tray Gowdy’s questioning and bitch slapping SJ Lee!
At least a pop-up target has a usefulness.
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