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Judge Napolitano Slams Obama’s SCOTUS Criticism: ‘No Pres. Has Questioned This Since Andrew Jackson!’

James Crugnale | 8:26 am, April 3rd, 2012
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Appearing on Fox and Friends Tuesday, Judge Andrew Napolitano took a swipe at President Obama‘s demand to the Supreme Court to not overturn his health care law, calling it incomprehensible and desperate.

“We were scratching our heads when we were watching this and had it played over and over again because this is a graduate of Harvard Law School, the head of the Harvard Law Review and he taught constitutional law review at the University of Chicago,” said Napolitano. “Two of the best law schools in the country and he’s rejecting a basic premise of American law that’s not been seriously questioned in 175 years, which is this: the courts have the right to review what the Congress does and what the President does and if the court finds that behavior unconstitutional, they can void, they can invalidate what the Congress and the what the President does. That’s our system. That’s what preserves the Constitution against the tyranny of the majority. No president has questioned this since Andrew Jackson!”

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“Could he possibly have been saying look, if this is not upheld, the ruling would be illegitimate and I’m really kind of talking to Justice Kennedy over there who is probably a swing vote. You have three months. I vote you say it’s okay?”

“That’s why we have a life tenured independent judiciary so that it cannot be cowed by politicians no matter how well intended they may be,” Napolitano said. “Look, if this is invalidated, the President can say this was invalidated by the court not by me. If this is upheld, the President can say look, even a court appointed by a Republican president upheld this but for him to question the power and ability and authority of the court to review it and to decide if it’s unconstitutional is incomprehensible.

“Kind of looks like he’s declared war on the Supreme Court,” Doocy surmised.

“Kind of looks like he’s desperate,” Napolitano hit back.

Watch Napolitano’s take on President Obama’s criticism of the Supreme Court below, via Fox News:

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Judge Napolitano Slams Obama’s SCOTUS Criticism: ‘No Pres. Has Questioned This Since Andrew Jackson!’ | Mediaite

Obama Weighs In, Desperately

Posted by Roger Pilon
Today POLITICO Arena asks:

Is Obama right to warn conservative justices on the Supreme Court that a rejection of his sweeping health care law would be an act of “judicial activism” that Republicans say they abhor?

My response:

Obama is losing it. How else to explain his contention that the Court’s overturning ObamaCare would be “unprecedented” – except if it’s meant to be a craven political posture by a man who can read the polls on the subject. The Supreme Court has been overturning congressional acts from its inception. Its job is to ensure that Congress and the president act within their constitutional bounds, not to rubber-stamp whatever they do. That’s not “judicial activism.” It’s upholding the law.

When Obama adds that it’s important “to remind people that this is not an abstract argument” and that “people’s lives are affected by the lack of availability of health care (sic),” he only compounds the problem by encouraging the public to believe that that is a constitutionally relevant consideration.

The irony in this posturing by Obama and others on the Left is rich, of course. They’re the ones who’ve promoted genuine judicial activism for 75 years – first urging the Court to find powers nowhere granted, then to find rights nowhere held or recognized. And now, when the Court looks at last like it may be taking the Constitution seriously, they scream “judicial activism”?! Please.

Roger Pilon • April 3, 2012 @ 8:47 am


Obama Weighs In, Desperately | Cato @ Liberty

Is Obama right to warn conservative justices on the Supreme Court that a rejection of his sweeping health care law would be an act of “judicial activism” that Republicans say they abhor?

How funny Obama is, in other words his comment about "unelected judges" against a duly elected group of representatives have the audacity to call something they passed unconstitutional???? Isn't that the kettle calling the pot black?????

They passed this mandate without the approval of the American Public the same public that has been screaming about this mandate since.....get real here....

Please God help us get rid of this man!!!!!


Here is another link of the same story!!!

Obama Asks ‘Unelected’ Supreme Court Not To Take Extraordinary Step Of Overturning Health Care Law

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/obama-ask...alth-care-law/



Such audacity of this man!!!!