The following is a guest post by Joseph Hall.
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Obama Stirs up Firestorm with Bellicose Attack on SCOTUS
It’s time for some political smack-down, and President Obama’s direct attacks on SCOTUS yesterday have garnered a quick response by the federal judiciary. This just out from CBS.com, “Appeals court fires back at Obama’s comments on health care case,” (Jan Crawford) reports:
“In the escalating battle between the administration and the judiciary, a federal appeals court apparently is calling the president’s bluff — ordering the Justice Department to answer by Thursday whether the Obama Administration believes that the courts have the right to strike down a federal law, according to a lawyer who was in the courtroom.
The order, by a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit, appears to be in direct response to the president’s comments yesterday about the Supreme Court’s review of the health care law. Mr. Obama all but threw down the gauntlet with the justices, saying he was “confident” the Court would 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.”
While Obama has struck a more conciliatory tone today, the language he chose to use yesterday has revealed an Imperialist tone and has caught the attention of the federal judiciary. The 5th circuit has fired back demanding that Obama fully explain his true attitude about the court.
If past performance is any predictor of the administration’s intentions, there will be no reply by the deadline, showing that an insolent attitude truly permeates the White House.
For America, it’s game on! Let’s see what the president really thinks!
Submitted by: Joseph Hall
The arrogance of Obama is almost frightening. Does he not realise that pride is the devils greatest tool ? Of course the concept of being the devils tool would be pleasing to Barry I suppose.
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Obama is shooting himself in the foot with these comments about the Supreme Court.
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Yeah, the way the 2 supreme court justices are still hearing the case despite financial interests, that’s real classy.
Aw, well, that’s a ‘quiet room’ kinda thing, and those kinds of things are always OK as long as you keep it on the down low, huh?
And aren’t the two main GOP candidates saying they would, if they could, curtail the powers of the supreme court? Isn’t that pretty unconstitutional? Hasn’t the right always said that?
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The 5th Circuit judge literally gave the Obama lawyer a homework assignment:
“I would like to have from you by noon on Thursday…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, stating specifically and in detail in reference to those statements what the authority is of the federal courts in this regard in terms of judicial review. That letter needs to be at least three pages single spaced, no less, and it needs to be specific. It needs to make specific reference to the president’s statements and again to the position of the attorney general and the Department of Justice.”
http://tinyurl.com/7vyw83o
It occurs to me that history teachers in schools across the country should give their students this exact same assignment. It would be educational for them.
And I bet some of them would do a better job with it.
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Another judges opinion on the blabbermouth in chiefs statement.
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2012/04/03/when-it-comes-to-constitution-obama-cannot-lay-glove-on-supreme-court/
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Since the concern is that this unread, 2,700 page law is overreaching and exceeding the power of both Congress and the President…it’s a little extra disturbing for the man to speak to the Court in the tone that he has, “expecting” this and “directing” that. SCOTUS is there to protect the citizenry, within the confines of the Constitution, from overreaching, overpowering Government. This law, which the majority of the citizenry doesn’t want in the first place, is not about providing care–it’s about power over the people, “fundamentally changing” (Obama’s favorite term) the relationship of the people with their Federal government– which SCOTUS is rightly concerned about. Or should be.
Mr. Obama needs to take a deep breath and understand that Kings decree things–Presidents do not. No President should have the kind of power he’s trying to grab. NO PRESIDENT, whether (d) or (r). This President’s ego needs to be a tad deflated. And maybe sent to Remedial Constitutional Law, since he didn’t get it the first time.
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Obama wants to run the Executive Branch like Hugo Chavez does: The peasant mob marches through the streets to get its way; the courts are intimidated; opposition news media are muzzled.
That’s the progressive dream.
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Creeping gradualism to socialisms attack against the the Constitutional republic took a startling leap in the expose of Obammas mindset and agenda. While Americans slept, our justices fought to preserve the US Constitution from Obammas unlawful executive usurp of power, our justices upheld the Constitution as per their oath.
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I’m trying to distinguish if Obummer’s foaming-at-the-mouth attacks were bellicose or Bella Lugosi — they BOTH want to suck out every drop of lifeblood from their victims.
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[...] “[T]he language he chose to use yesterday has revealed an Imperialist tone and has caught the attention of the federal judiciary. The 5th circuit has fired back demanding that Obama fully explain his true attitude about the court,” explained blogger Lonely Conservative. [...]
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