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OBAMA'S DAILY VIOLATION OF THE CONSTITUTION


Posted: Apr 21, 2014

With a compliant Democratic majority in the U.S. Senate that consistently defends the president’s executive theft of power, Barack Obama and his allies are well on their way to carrying out his 2008 threat to “fundamentally transform the United States of America.”

What is being transformed first—through growing, abusive executive edicts never conceived under the U.S. Constitution—is the very form of government and strict guarantees of individual freedom in the Bill of Rights that are the bedrock of our nation’s remarkable stability.

“Change”—Obama’s election mantra—is a direct, in-your-face affront to the very vision of our Founding Fathers.

Without doubt, the most dire warnings over Obama’s daily violation of the Constitution have come from George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley, an Obama supporter and self-proclaimed champion of a “socially liberal agenda.”

Nonetheless, appearing before the House Judiciary Committee in February 2014, Prof. Turley called President Obama’s usurpation of power “a constitutional crisis with sweeping implications for our system of government.” And although he didn’t use the term, he defined what I would call the high crimes of the administration thusly:

“The current threat to legislative authority in our system is comprehensive—spanning from the misappropriation of funds, to the circumvention of appointments, to negation of legislative provisions.”

Let me just name a few of Obama’s illegal and unconstitutional executive actions beginning with his refusal to enforce immigration laws and ignoring congressional mandates to close our borders to criminal aliens. Then there is Obama’s Internal Revenue Service threatening to silence ordinary Americans whom the president considers enemies, and his massive NSA domestic telephone and Internet surveillance of millions of innocent Americans.

Obama’s Justice Department overseeing gun smuggling to Mexican drug cartels makes our list, as does routinely refusing to answer congressional subpoenas, officials stonewalling Congress, routinely ignoring orders from federal courts or unilaterally rewriting his systemically flawed laws.



Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2014/04/21/wayne-lapierre-we-must-act-to-stop-obamas-transformation-of-our-constitution/#ixzz2zZ32Rh82
Take note of the description of Jonathan Turley above. This is a very smart man who appears to be withdrawing his support of this president. Hmmm, I wonder why.
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HERE is a little balance to this posting - balance is good

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I googled the professor's name to get a better understanding of his position. This is interesting and admittedly a portion of his comments:

Interview Highlights: Jonathan Turley

On President Obama’s role in the power shift

“This certainly did not begin with him. We’ve seen a gradual sort of gravitational shift of power from the legislative to the executive branch. It was prominent during the Bush years, where I was also very critical, but it certainly accelerated under President Obama. And the most serious violations, in my view, are various cases when he went to Congress, as in the immigration field, as in the healthcare field, as for very specific things, and was rejected, and then decided just to order those on his own. He’s also been accused of shifting large amounts of money from their appointed or appropriated purpose to other purposes. These really drive at the heart of the separation of powers.”

So what Bush started, Obama accelerated. In this regard I agree with the concern over the shift of power from legislative to executive.

MAINLY because the next GOP president will use these new powers to further the cause for wars, push the poor and middle class down further, UNDUE much of the good Obama has done (even if it was by bypassing Congress) and favor the already rich and powerful.

This is something we could all agree about actually because FUTURE presidents will continue the trend and its not a good trend.

Do more digging. There's a lot more than what you found. - SM

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I mean a lot more. Read his website. He has a lot to say about his disappointments with this administration. He's trying to open the eyes of the liberals, but some just continue on with the blinders. Sad.

Not from what I read - he isn't

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Turley strikes me as one who shares inconvenient truth - even if it is about someone whose policies he "generally supports." In this case, he's trying to bring ALL OF OUR attention to the damage that can happen if ANY president has too much power. AND it started with Bush, as he himself states. He wants to help it stop.

You really should try being less intimidated with *liberals* - yes it shows.
well said - nm
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No blinders here. - nm
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:-)
It didn't start with Bush - ZvilleMT
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This kind of thing has been going on for decades. Lots of presidents have tried their hands at getting more power than what the Constitution gives them. Remember Roosevelt trying to stack the Supreme Court? And who can forget Nixon? Some presidents succeeded, others got pushed back, but make no mistake, GW Bush did not invent bypassing the Constitution any more than Barack Obama did - they just both succeeded quite a bit more than their predecessors. I agree with Turley that it's a problem no matter which president is doing it - it should have been stopped a long time ago, but the line has to be drawn somewhere - might as well be here and now.
Excellent comment - Trigger Happy
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and so true.
I was quoting Turley - when I posted it started - with Bush
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I don't know exactly where it started.

My point was to correct the thread which did not clarify that Turley's main concern is with this trend, not Obama, per se.
Oh, I know... - ZvilleMT
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I wasn't correcting you, more adding to what Turley stated.
It would be interesting to do a little research and see where this trend did start, discuss a little past political history - I mean, Abraham Lincoln suspended habeas corpus during the civil war (not that he intended to continue that when the war was over, but he hardly had the Constitutional power to do it).
I see a research project - when I get some free time - LOL! :) Maybe one president at a time?
Excellent points - I am curious as well
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I actually applaud the president (any) for some executive orders and probably support many of the apparently questionable measures that some presidents accomplished this way - when you have a DELIBERATELY obstructive Congress on your hands, I guess you get creative. In Lincoln's case it could have been expedient due to the war...

That said, I'd rather see a different approach because we saw what the rogue W did under his watch...

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