Posted on 01/13/2014 10:31:11 AM PST by jazusamo
Supreme Court justices took a dim view Monday of President Obama’s claim of almost unlimited powers to appoint top government officials, saying he appeared to be breaking with the founders’ vision of separation of powers between the branches of government when he tried an end-run around the Senate in 2012.
Both liberal and conservative justices seemed skeptical of the president’s claim, though they struggled with how far to go in deciding the limits of a president’s recess appointment power.
If they ruled narrowly, they could simply overturn Mr. Obama’s 2012 appointments by finding he tried to act when the Senate considered itself still in session. But the court could act more broadly and rule that the president’s recess powers only apply to a narrow set of positions that become vacant when the Senate has finished business for the year, and that the president can only fill those jobs during that same recess break.
Obama administration Solicitor General Donald B. Verrilli urged the justices not to interfere with the system, saying that even if it violates the Constitution’s language, the executive and legislative branches over the decades have reached a balance that could be upset by the court’s intervention.
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Basically arguing there is no need for the Judicial Branch. Sure that floated like a turd in a punch bowl with the Justices...
Then the balance is unconstitutional...ergo illegal/wrong you freaking marxist.
At this point, WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES IT MAKE?
This same SCOTUS just threw out the abortion law in Arizona.
Don’t expect good news.
Yep, and it doesn’t sound like the justices were very impressed.
They are going to affirm the lower court.
The question now is whether it will be a narrow or broad ruling.
I think a clear broad ruling here would go a long ways to prevent these kinds of abuses.
That is if 0bozo will recognize the court’s decision.
Ping!
Unmitigated horse pucky! The balance has been upset by Obama himself acting as a Dictator who rules by fiat!
THE SUMMER OF 2014:
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Today is the last watershed day for America, because it is the last chance for the US Supreme Court to exercise a Constitutional Check and Balance on the current rogue, tyrannical and oppressive Federal Administration.
Chief Justice John “Traitor” Roberts will probably again refuse to abide with the clear Constitutional Law, and again rewrite the US Constitution to his own liking, in similar manner to what Roberts did with the Constitutionality of the Obamacare Case when he un-Constutionally converted a legal fine into an illegal tax.
Today the US Supreme Court takes up the issue of whether or not an Administration can act without Congressional Approval on matters relating to personnel appointments.
The topic of bypassing the House on approving the spending of taxpayer’s dollars by the Administration will not be considered today, except tangentially, as the appointed personnel will be paid with taxpayer dollars, which would be a bypassing of the Constitutional Control of the Purse by the US House of Representatives.
We taxpayers view this as a clear cut case where we have “Taxation Without Representation” because our Representatives have not been part of the decision-making process.
Examples of a few Imperial matters of record include the following:
* Senator Reid’s Democrats recent voting to turn the US Congress into the US Parliament,
* Boehner’s refusal to appoint House Special Prosecutors for each of the Five Obama Administration Scandals,
* Obama’s four years of Imperial actions, and
* the recent history, ( Traitor Roberts’ Obamacare decision), of the US Supreme Court’s proven reluctance to provide their Constitutional duty of a Check and Balance on the other two Branches of the US Federal Government.
With the usual US Supreme Court private straw vote today that always follows the 30 minute Official Hearing before the Court, America’s future fate will be sealed, and later proclaimed between now and the Summer of 2014.
Either way that the NINE SUPREMES rule on this case, “The Summer of 2014” will prove to be the Summer that decided whether or not our Founding Fathers fought King George the Third of England in vain - - - .
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THE SUMMER OF 2014.
“Skeptical”?
They should have laughed in his face and cited him for contempt.
I’d just add this:
And besides, 0bama does and has been doing what he wants because in his mind it is best for the country.
Even Kagan not buying Obama’s BS
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ain’t no “justice” in that court with Roberts and wishy washy Kennedy their.
I wonder what will happen once SCOTUS finally rules on Obama’s ineligibility to be POTUS?
Will we have five years of appointments, laws he signed, judges he appointed, all nullified?
Talk about true chaos, but then the Constitution should ultimately mean something
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