FED APPEALS COURT TO DOJ: YOU HAVE UNTIL THURSDAY TO EXPLAIN WHAT THE PRESIDENT MEANT BY ‘UNPRECEDENTED’ & ‘UNELECTED GROUP’
A federal appeals court has ordered the Justice Department to clarify comments made by the president when he said yesterday that it would be “unprecedented” for the Supreme Court to overturn his signature health care law (“Obamacare”)...
... a three-judge panel for the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals has told the DOJ that it has until Thursday to explain whether the Obama administration believes the courts have the right to strike down a federal law...
“That has troubled a number of people who have read it as somehow a challenge to the federal courts or to their authority,” Judge Smith said. “And that’s not a small matter.”
He then told the attorneys that the DOJ must address this issue in “no less than three pages, single spaced” by noon on Thursday, according to Fox.
“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,” Smith said.
“What is the authority is of the federal courts in this regard in terms of judicial review?” Smith asked...
Since the appeals court issued its order, the Obama administration has responded via White House Press Secretary Jay Carney.
“Of course we believe that the Supreme Court has, and the courts have, as their duty and responsibility the ability of striking down laws as unconstitutional,” Carney said Tuesday, according to Fox.
Carney said the president was specifically talking about “the precedent under the Commerce Clause” regarding a legislature’s ability to address “challenges to our national economy.”
Update - Attorney General Eric Holder said Wednesday that the Justice Department will respond “appropriately” to a federal appellate judge in Texas who demanded a letter recognizing the authority of the federal courts to strike down laws passed by Congress...
“Under our system of government … courts have the final say on the constitutionality of statutes. The courts are also fairly deferential when it comes to overturning statutes that the duly elected representatives of the people, Congress, pass,” Holder said...
SOURCE: THE BLAZE
OBAMA STUMBLES THROUGH ANSWER WHEN CONFRONTED ON HEALTH CARE LAW’S FUTURE
“First of all, let me be very specific,” Obama said before launching into a nearly six-minute response filled with pauses and blank stares. “We have not seen a court overturn a law that was passed by Congress on an economic issue like health care, that I think most people would clearly consider commerce, a law like that has not been overturned at least since Lochner, so we’re going back to the thirties, pre New Deal.”
“The point I was making was that the Supreme Court is the final say on our Constitution and our laws and all of us have to respect it, but it’s precisely because of that extraordinary power that the Court has traditionally exercised significant restraint and deference to our duly-elected legislature, our congress. And so the burden is on those who would overturn a law like this.
“Now, as I said, I expect the Supreme Court to actually recognize that and to abide by well-established precedents out there.”
While struggling to connect his thoughts, he went on to say he is not getting contingency plans ready because he expects the law to be upheld.
But Obama’s assertion that such a law dealing with the Commerce Clause has not been overturned is a curious one. For example, in 1994 the court struck down school-zone gun legislation that was based on that part of the Constitution.
On Monday, Fox’s Judge Andrew Napolitano ripped into the president for inaccuracies in his argument for the law and against the Court:
Notice his chin is always up, as if he is better than any of the rest of us. His body language is important to note because it says everything about his character.
Here are some arrogant statements that I am adding as I search for video with the body language issue.
AN INTERVIEW WITH THE PRESIDENT.
Bashford: But what about your other records? We know that George W. Bush was a “C” student, because we saw his academic records. When will you release your academic records and writings – from Occidental College in California to Harvard Law?
Obama: Let me be clear about this: My academic records will remain under seal because I didn’t give up my right to privacy just because I was elected president of the United States. Besides, those Oxy records might show I received financial aid as a foreign student. Beyond that, my academic writings are embarrassingly Marxist (more chuckles). And I don’t mean Groucho Marxist. …
Bashford: Have you noticed that the health-care law you promised would reduce health insurance premiums has resulted in increased premiums?
Obama: No, I hadn’t noticed that, because as president I don’t pay for health care. Besides I don’t believe it because I don’t want to. Furthermore, the real savings from the reform bill won’t kick in until the middle of my next term. …
Bashford: More on jobs. Why did you really scotch the Keystone pipeline?
Obama: I put the kibosh on that because Congress pushed me when I wanted to wait until after the election. Nobody pushes Barack Obama. I am the president! I am chief executive! … We’re heading for a new energy future! An alternative energy future! … And we will reach that future because I say so! And … and … and … Sorry. I just get a little upset when my authority is challenged, like by that ornery Arizona governor.
Bashford: Very well. Didn’t you – a lawyer – know it was unethical and illegal when you, as board president of a federally funded organization in Chicago, nominated your wife to be its paid executive director?
Obama: Wow! Nobody has ever asked me that question! But there’s a simple answer: Anti-corruption laws hardly ever apply in Illinois. … Besides, Michelle and I needed the money.
SOURCE: WND.COMTHE OBAMA'S DURING THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE WITH LEFT HAND TO CHEST INSTEAD OF RIGHT HAND TO HEART.
And for anyone who thinks this may be a "mirror-image" picture, please note thewedding rings on the ring fingers of their LEFT HANDS and the RIGHT side of the "Messiah's" suit coat where the buttons are.
As any American knows, we place our right hand over our heart when we recite the Pledge of Allegiance.
THE TEN COMMANDMENTSACCORDING TO OBAMA
(reprinted from: http://www.patriotdepot.com/TenCommandmentsTshirt.aspx)
I. Thou shalt have no God in America, except for me. For we are no longer a Christian nation and, after all, I am the chosen One. (And like God, I do not have a birth certificate.)
II. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, unless it is my face carved on Mt. Rushmore.
III. Thou shalt not utter my middle name in vain (or in public). Only I can say Barack Hussein Obama.
IV. Remember tax day, April 15th, to keep it holy.
V. Honor thy father and thy mother until they are too old and sick to care for. They will cost our public-funded health-care system too much money.
VI. Thou shalt not kill, unless you have an unwanted, unborn baby. For it would be an abomination to punish your daughter with a baby.
VII. Thou shalt not commit adultery if you are conservative or a Republican. Liberals and Democrats are hereby forgiven for all of their infidelity and immorality, but the careers of conservatives will be forever destroyed.
VIII. Thou shalt not steal, until you've been elected to public office. Only then is it acceptable to take money from hard-working, successful citizens and give it to those who do not work, illegal immigrants, or those who do not have the motivation to better their own lives.
IX. Thou shalt not discriminate against thy neighbor unless they are conservative, Caucasian, or Christian.
X. Thou shalt not covet because it is simply unnecessary. I will place such a heavy tax burden on those that have achieved the American Dream that, by the end of my term as President, nobody will have any wealth or material goods left for you to covet.
With President Obama, one of the most prominent features in his body language is his chin.
Do you recall the phrase, "looking down your nose at someone?"
Confidence sometimes shows itself in an elevated chin lift. When the chin lift becomes extreme, it is viewed as arrogance and that "you are looking down your nose at me".
This body language took on new meaning when President Obama first came into public view where he was quickly labeled "arrogant" and "cocky" in some of his speeches.
Patterns were observed that during the time of a speech where he received audience approval, his chin went even higher.SOURCE: SEAMUSORILEY
I WILL CERTAINLY FIND MORE TO BE POSTED TO COME. IT'S DISGUSTING THAT HIS BEHAVIOR IS AS IT IS! HE MUST BE OUSTED THIS ELECTION CYCLE FOR SOMEONE WHO WILL WORK FOR THE PEOPLE AND TREAT THE CONSTITUTION WITH RESPECT!
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