Obama threatens to veto bill that would require administration to enforce laws

The Daily Caller ^ | 03/12/14 | Neil Munro

[blueyon]

President Barack Obama would veto a GOP-drafted bill that would allow legislators to take agency officials to court if they don’t enforce laws, according to a White House statement.

The GOP is pushing the bill through the House because Obama has repeatedly declined to enforce laws he doesn’t like, say GOP legislators.

[Graewoulf]

Impeach Soetoro-Obama in 2014, PERIOD.

[Chaguito]

Impeachment is doomed to failure, and not just because of the distribution of Republicans and Democrats in the congress.

An ultraleftist young lawyer explained that Obama is simply acting like any enforcement agency which does not treat all situations exactly the same before the law(s). All executives exercise discretion in the enforcement of laws.

This is an argument that no member of the House or Senate would be willing or able to refute adequately in the realms of public opinion and propaganda.

[itsahoot]

Not to mention that the Presidential Oath declares that he will faithfully execute the Laws of the Land.

[Zack Attack]

More proof that this country is going insane - that we need a law to try to get our leaders to enforce the laws they pass...

[itsahoot]

It is a bill to give the legislature "standing" in court to sue the president

I seem to recall the democrats taking Nixon into court for not spending money they had appropriated. Nixon lost.

Why did they have standing to do that, yet no one seems to have standing anymore. Did we amend the Constitution when no one was watching?

[Cboldt]

The courts already boot these cases, unless the legislators have standing. Sometimes the courts boot tyhe cases becuase the issue is a political question, and the legislators have other tools, like legislate the agency out of existence, dry up the money, or impeach and remove a government officer.

The courts would keep booting these cases - legislators can't legislate "political questions" into some other sort of issue. I see this as just more of Congress abdicating its own responsiblity.

[itsahoot]

Do they really think that people don’t notice?

And you think that they do? Why are there no protests? Why is his approval above 15%?

[itsahoot]

could be useful to bludgeon the Democrats as a lawless party

The democrats want him to be lawless. To be fair I doubt you would hear any complaints on this forum, if we had a Republican President that refused to enforce EPA directives or any number of other Climate Change Cr@p, laws.

[maxwellsmart_agent]

The fact that the administration refuses to enforce existing laws is reason enough for impeachment. Why is he not impeached and removed from office?

[oldbrowser]

Why did they have standing to do that, yet no one seems to have standing anymore. Did we amend the Constitution when no one was watching?

I agree that no one seems to have standing against the government anymore. Even though Of, By, and for the people was supposed to be the foundation of our government.

I don't recall the dems prevailing against Nixon when he was not spending the entire federal budget.

[itsahoot]

I don't recall the dems prevailing against Nixon when he was not spending the entire federal budget.

Well it was a while back, but I think they did, maybe it just went to court and got a ruling, but then again I can't remember what I watched on TV last night.