Is Obama at war with the federal courts?
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On Monday afternoon, Obama held a joint news conference with Prime
Minister Stephen Harper of Canada, and President Felipe Calderon of
Mexico. The two other men expected to talk about trade among their three
respective countries. But someone asked Obama whether he had anything
to fall back on, should the Supreme Court rule that his health care
reform bill was unconstitutional. Herewith his verbatim reply:
I think the justices should understand, in the absence of
an individual mandate, you cannot have a mechanism to ensure that
people with pre-existing conditions can actually have health care. So
there is not only an economic issue; there is a human issue. Ultimately,
I’m confident that the Supreme Court will not take what would be an
unprecedented, extraordinary step of overturning a law that was passed
by a strong majority of a democratically elected Congress.

The United States Supreme Court, with several March for Life participants in the foreground. Photo: CNAV files
Breitbart quickly reminded readers of the last time that Obama threatened the Supreme Court. In Citizens United v. Federal Elections Commission, the Court held, per curiam
(i.e., unanimously), that joint-stock corporations have as much right
to advertise on political issues as have the trade unions. A furious
Obama took them to task in the middle of his State of the Union Address.
Obama said that the Court had thrown out centuries of precedent and now
would let “special interests” and even overseas companies “interfere”
in American politics. That prompted Justice Samuel J. Alito to mouth
back silently, “That’s not true.”
On Monday Morning, Representative Jim Clyburn (D-SC) had already advised Obama to run against the Supreme Court. According to Breitbart, Obama seemed to be taking Clyburn’s advice.
The Fifth Circuit Court answers Obama
That was bad advice. Clyburn was wrong to give it, and Obama
was just as wrong, or more wrong, to take it. Yesterday the Court of
Appeals for the Fifth Circuit answered Obama’s challenge. During oral argumentJerry in Physicians Hospitals of America et al. v. Kathleen Sebelius et al.,
Judge Jerry Smith frostily asked Dana Lee Kaersvang, the attorney for
the government, to explain whether the government acknowledged that
courts may strike down laws that those courts deem unconstitutional.
Kaersvang readily acknowledged the obvious case, Marbury v. Madison. But she insisted that the health care reform bill was still constitutional.
So Smith assigned her what looked like the kind of homework that teachers assign to punish impudent schoolchildren:
I would like to have from you by noon on Thursday —
that’s about 48 hours from now — a letter stating what is the position
of the Attorney General and the Department of Justice, in regard to the
recent statements by the president.
See these reports from CBS-TV and Newsmax.com.
Later yesterday, Obama sheepishly said:
The point I was making is that the Supreme Court is the
final say on our Constitution, and all of us have to respect it,” he
said. “But it’s precisely because of that extraordinary power that the
court has traditionally exercised significant restraint and deference to
a duly elected legislature.”
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Top Opinion
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WhereIsAmerica? ~PWCM~JLA 2012/04/05 02:10:19Yes. He challenged the courts, and the courts accepted.+9How dare the courts want to uphold the law, don't they know Obama is the supreme Dictator?
Obama is like a nightmare, I just want it to END.






















Good move Judge Smith
In my opinion, the Press made a mountain out of a molehill on purpose by pumping that Judge up and airing his comments to bully President Obama into a fight. After listening to that Judge speak out unprecedentedly about a case that was still in the Courts without a decision being announced, I understood exactly what was going on. It was a set up by the Press using someone puffed up with their own power to...
In my opinion, the Press made a mountain out of a molehill on purpose by pumping that Judge up and airing his comments to bully President Obama into a fight. After listening to that Judge speak out unprecedentedly about a case that was still in the Courts without a decision being announced, I understood exactly what was going on. It was a set up by the Press using someone puffed up with their own power to start a fight and power struggle between the Executive Branch of the Government and the Judicial Branch of the Government over legislature that was created by Congress and signed into law by the President. Entertainment and grandstanding by the press who had a judge ripe for the picking to make news ratings at the expense of the American People without Affordable Health Care and a balanced budget from their Government.
This experience made it perfectly clear why Health Care was being repealed and why it was in the hands of an unelected Supreme Court to repeal after being signed into law by the President after receiving it from Congress. The fact that a Judge would speak on a case before the American People have been told the decision to the press outside of court and not to the People from the authority of the court first indicates the entire repeal in the first place was simply political with the Republicans and the Tea Party seeking the Highest Court in the Land to take their Political side against the law President Obama signed simply because they want to blacken his mark as President. What a shame for the American People who must take some of the blame because of the decisions we made in 2010 putting folk in office who put their politics ahead of the needs of the people.
Hopefully, my fellow Americans will stop letting the media sick them into a fight just for press and sensationalism and realize our lives are at stakes here and start standing with President Obama in our own best interest and make sure Congress and the Judicial branches get their sides of the house in order so we stop getting caught in their madness.
Hopefully the press will stop crying wolf before no one takes them seriously at all. Then, all they will be left with are the zillions of dollars of spite advertisement that no one wants to see. And everyone will know to go to the Polls near them and vote for President Obama on 11/6/2012 ending the madness which will move America forward! Then the press will be left with the fallout of losing their audience to the internet where the people can be heard.
Quit spinning and is about time that you and Oblamer face the truth.
A lot of people are suffering because of him, you must be another recipient of Obama titty and you are enjoying it.
Socialists Communists invading out county.
Shame on people who want Obama titty and have no shame. Taking money from all of us WHO WORK and you getting all the benefits for all of US WHO WORK, bunch of American leaches.
Today, Fox News digital politics editor Chris Stirewalt found a new angle from which to approach the issue. In an interview with Megyn Kelly, the host of Fox "straight news" program America Live, Stirewalt criticized Obama for pointing out that conservative commentators criticize "unelected" judges, saying: "Now, no offense to Charles Krauthammer and no offense to any of the circuit judges in the country, but they're not the president of the United States." In fact, former President George W. Bush criticized "unelected" judges who made rulings he thought were incorrect.
And here are remarks Bush gave to the Federalist Society's 25th annual gala, in 2007:
For the judiciary, resisting this temptation is particularly important, because it's the only branch that is unelected and whose officers serve for life. Unfortunately, some judges give in to temptation and make law instead of interpreting. Such judicial lawlessness is a threat to our democracy -- and it needs to stop.
And in 2008, Bush commented that the "concept of a 'living Constitution' gives unelected judges wide latitude in creating new laws and policies without accountability to the people."
He thinks that he is a dictator BUT he is going to find out differently this Nov.
It will........and by the choice; sadly; of a minority of it's people...the lazy don't care....and thus will end the chapter on the greatest Super-Power in the history of Mankind....
Your Faux noose kool-aid drenched hyperbole fails.
>but will America fail with it?
Conservatives hope so just so they can play the fiddle. How patriotic.
My service is enough for that......whistle...