“First, Obama unleashed a broadside against the justices during his 2010 State of the Union address for their ruling on a campaign finance case known as Citizens United. With the justices seated directly in front of him, Obama publicly scolded the court for its decision-making. It was an unusual step for a lawyer-president to take the high court to the legal woodshed during a State of the Union address.
Second, still desirous of blurring the lines of constitutional demarcation between the executive and judicial branches of government, in April, Obama once again took aim at the Supreme Court. In an encore performance at a press conference, Obama said it would be an "unprecedented, extraordinary" step for the Court to rule against his health care law. The former law professor must have forgotten his first day of law school, when Marbury v. Madison and the concept of judicial review were discussed. He must have also forgotten that in 2008, the Supreme Court invalidated an act that suspended habeas for Guantanamo detainees. Obama favored the court's outcome in that case, applauding the court's "unprecedented" overruling of a federal statute at that time.
Third, Obama has directed his administration to file papers claiming that if the Supreme Court were to rule against his health care plan, it would risk the "extraordinary disruption" of Medicare — never mind that Medicare has been chugging along for its entire existence without the benefit of the Affordable Health Care Act.”
From The Detroit News: http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20120612/OPINION01/206120324#ixzz1xhX6yRLf
The author is a Republican. Obviously. No Democrat can speak the truth about blurring the lines of responsibility and authority.
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