Posted on 06/25/2014 5:13:32 PM PDT by lbryce
Speaking to reporters on Wednesday, House Speaker John Boehner announced he will be filing a lawsuit in the coming days against the White House in an effort to stop President Obama's continuing executive overreach.
"This is not about impeachment -- it's about him faithfully executing the laws of this country," Boehner said during the announcement.
Here's more background from Roll Call:
The lawsuit could set up a significant test of constitutional checks and balances, with the legislative branch suing the executive branch for ignoring its mandates, and the judiciary branch deciding the outcome.
Boehner told the House Republican Conference during a closed-door meeting Tuesday morning that he has been consulting with legal scholars and plans to unveil his next steps this week or next, according to sources in the room.
Boehner spokesman Michael Steel said further action is necessary because the Senate has not taken up bills passed by the House targeting executive actions. The House has passed a bill expediting court consideration of House resolutions starting lawsuits targeting executive overreach and another mandating that the attorney general notify Congress when the administration decides to take executive action outside of what has been authorized by Congress.
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Maybe so, but it may also be a case of first impression that the Supremes will then need to figger out. We all know impeachment is a bust, so why not sue and see what happens. Better than sitting on hands like the pubes are doing now.
This is a fools errand, and may end up making the GOP look not only foolish, but impotent. The House has no standing to sue the chief executive because he is recalcitrant at enforcing the law. The Supremes will say that is what elections are for. We are royally screwed.
Obama has no respect for the rule of law. If, IF, he had standing and IF he won the case, who will enforce the judgement...Obama? We have watched obama give the codified law the middle finger for the past 6 years. He would just do the same here. Impeach Holder, Koskinin, the EPA chief and anyone else who is below obama. Defund obamas favorite pet projects. But sue??????? Meant to take our minds off of what they did to McDaniels. Let us not forget.
Not necessarily so. An older Supreme Court case holds that a legislative body (state legislature) has standing to sue the chief executive (governor) for failing to enforce duly enacted laws because that refusal has the effect of completely nullifying the votes of all the legislators (i.e., how the legislature voted becomes irrelevant). That case is Coleman v. Miller, 307 U.S. 433 (1939). Coleman was discussed by the Court in Raines v. Byrd, 521 U.S. 811 (1997), a case in which 6 members of Congress sued to prevent Clinton from exercising the line item veto Congress had recently enacted, and was accepted as granting standing to a legislature where the executive’s actions have the effect of “completely nullifying” the acts of the legislature.
That is what Obuttocks is doing here, at least that is what we’re claiming he’s doing - nullifying the vote of the entire Congress by completely ignoring the laws duly passed and signed into law by prior presidents. That should give the House standing under Coleman.
This is just for show....
"Racist republicans on witch hunt."
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