Excited by power, Obama ignores legal restraints

Timothy P. Carney Washington Examiner 5/22/2011

…Presidential arrogation of power is nothing new. President George W. Bush’s lawyer John Yoo declared in a post-9/11 memo that no congressional “statute …. can place any limits on the president’s determinations” about how to fight terrorism, proclaiming such decisions “are for the president alone to make.”

But Barack […]

Obama and Senate Rewriting Article II

Joe Wolverton, II The New American 15 April 2011

On March 30, Senator Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and 15 co-sponsors (including Republican leaders) introduced S. 679, the “Presidential Appointment Efficiency and Streamlining Act.” The measure would remove the “advice and consent” requirement for many executive branch appointments, giving the President unchecked power to fill key administration […]

Putting a Stop to Congressional Overreach

It’s time for the Supreme Court to enforce the Necessary and Proper Clause Damon W. Root Reason.com November 13, 2009

In early September, Fox News host Andrew Napolitano asked Rep. James Clyburn (D-S.C.), the third-ranking Democrat in the House of Representatives, precisely what part of the Constitution authorized Congress to enact health care legislation. “There’s […]

Washington Post: Illegal Health Reform

By David B. Rivkin Jr. and Lee A. Casey Saturday, August 22, 2009

President Obama has called for a serious and reasoned debate about his plans to overhaul the health-care system. Any such debate must include the question of whether it is constitutional for the federal government to adopt and implement the president’s proposals. […]

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