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Appeals Court Tells Barack Obama – PUT UP OR SHUT UP
The Ulsterman Report
Ulsterman
4/3/2012
"Following President Barack Obama’s oddly veiled and dictatorial threat against the United States Supreme Court, a federal appeals court is demanding the Obama Department of Justice answer a request over whether or not the Obama administration has even the most basic understanding of American government and judiciary review.
From a just released CBS New report:
Overturning a law of course would not be unprecedented — since the Supreme Court since 1803 has asserted the power to strike down laws it interprets as unconstitutional. The three-judge appellate court appears to be asking the administration to admit that basic premise — despite the president’s remarks that implied the contrary.
…Smith then became “very stern,” the source said, telling the lawyers arguing the case it was not clear to “many of us” whether the president believes such a right exists.
It would appear Barack Obama’s much heralded 2008 description of being a “Constitutional scholar” is facing a rather strong challenge from those who have actually read the Constitution – a reading that it seems Obama never quite made time for before or since becoming President of the United States."
View the complete article at:
http://theulstermanreport.com/2012/0...up-or-shut-up/
The Ulsterman Report
Ulsterman
4/3/2012
"Following President Barack Obama’s oddly veiled and dictatorial threat against the United States Supreme Court, a federal appeals court is demanding the Obama Department of Justice answer a request over whether or not the Obama administration has even the most basic understanding of American government and judiciary review.
From a just released CBS New report:
…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.”
Overturning a law of course would not be unprecedented — since the Supreme Court since 1803 has asserted the power to strike down laws it interprets as unconstitutional. The three-judge appellate court appears to be asking the administration to admit that basic premise — despite the president’s remarks that implied the contrary.
…Smith then became “very stern,” the source said, telling the lawyers arguing the case it was not clear to “many of us” whether the president believes such a right exists.
It would appear Barack Obama’s much heralded 2008 description of being a “Constitutional scholar” is facing a rather strong challenge from those who have actually read the Constitution – a reading that it seems Obama never quite made time for before or since becoming President of the United States."
View the complete article at:
http://theulstermanreport.com/2012/0...up-or-shut-up/