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    CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS - ‘The Imperial Presidency’ House holds hearing on executive o

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    BY: Elizabeth Harrington
    February 26, 2014 5:42 pm

    "My view [is] that the president, has in fact, exceeded his authority in a way that is creating a destabilizing influence in a three branch system. The expansion of executive power is happening so fast that America is at a “constitutional tipping point.
    ‘The Imperial Presidency’
    House holds hearing on executive overreach

    Members of Congress and constitutional law experts testified before the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday, warning that the legislative branch is in danger of ceding its power in the face of an “imperial presidency.”

    The hearing, “Enforcing the President’s Constitutional Duty to Faithfully Execute the Laws,” focused on the multiple areas President Barack Obama has bypassed Congress, ranging from healthcare and immigration to marriage and welfare rules.

    Jonathan Turley, Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University, testified that the expansion of executive power is happening so fast that America is at a “constitutional tipping point.”

    “My view [is] that the president, has in fact, exceeded his authority in a way that is creating a destabilizing influence in a three branch system,” he said. “I want to emphasize, of course, this problem didn’t begin with President Obama, I was critical of his predecessor President Bush as well, but the rate at which executive power has been concentrated in our system is accelerating. And frankly, I am very alarmed by the implications of that aggregation of power.”

    “What also alarms me, however, is that the two other branches appear not just simply passive, but inert in the face of this concentration of authority,” Turley said.

    While Turley agrees with many of Obama’s policy positions, he steadfastly opposes the method he goes about enforcing them.

    “The fact that I happen to think the president is right on many of these policies does not alter the fact that I believe the means he is doing [it] is wrong, and that this can be a dangerous change in our system,” he said. “And our system is changing in a very fundamental way. And it’s changing without a whimper of regret or opposition.”

    Elizabeth Price Foley, a law professor at Florida International University College of Law, agreed, warning that Congress is in danger of becoming “superfluous.”

    “Situations like this, these benevolent suspensions as they get more and more frequent and more and more aggressive, they’re eroding our citizens’ respect for the rule of law,” she said. “We are a country of law and not men. It’s going to render Congress superfluous.”

    Foley said Congress is not able to tackle meaningful legislation out of fear that Obama would “simply benevolently suspend portions of the law he doesn’t like.”

    “If you want to stay relevant as an institution, I would suggest that you not stand idly by and let the president take your power away,” she said.

    Panelists and members of Congress dismissed the idea of impeachment, and instead focused on lawsuits to challenge the constitutionality of the president’s unilateral moves.

    Four House members testified on the first panel during the hearing to highlight legislation they have sponsored to thwart the administration’s executive overreach.

    Impeachment would “surely be extremely divisive within the Congress and the nation generally, and would divert the attention of Congress from other important issues of the day,” said Rep. Jim Gerlach (R., Pa.).

    Gerlach, who testified before the committee, introduced H.R. 3857, the “Enforce the Take Care Clause Act,” which would expedite the review and injunction process for federal courts to challenge executive actions. Such a challenge would have to pass a supermajority in both chambers in order to be fast-tracked.

    “Given the growing number of examples where this President has clearly failed to faithfully execute all laws, I believe it is time for Congress to put in place a procedure for a fast-track, independent review of those executive actions,” he said.

    Gerlach said he proposed the bill due to Obama’s repeated alterations to his signature law, the Affordable Care Act.

    “The ACA has been revised, altered and effectively rewritten by the president and his administration 23 times since July,” he said.

    “When we have these constant changes at the president’s whim think about what that does to businesses’ planning capabilities and hiring capabilities and their expansion capabilities,” Rep. Tom Rice (R., S.C.) said. “We shouldn’t wonder why our economy is struggling.”

    Rice has proposed the “Stop This Overreaching Presidency (STOP) Resolution” as a remedy. The resolution, which has 114 cosponsors, would direct the House to file lawsuits against four of the president’s unilateral actions, including the employer mandate delay in Obamacare and deferred action program for illegal immigrants.

    Turley said Congress must take action to regain their power as the “thumping heart of our system.”

    “The fact is, we’re stuck with each other,” Turley said. “Whether we like it or not in a system of shared powers. For better or worse we may deadlock, we maybe despise each other. The framers foresaw such periods, they lived in such a period.”

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    GOP Congressman: House would impeach Obama tomorrow, but mean Senate won’t let them

    If we were to impeach the president tomorrow, you could probably get the votes in the House of Representatives to do it. But it would go to the Senate and he wouldn’t be convicted. [...] We saw what happened when President Clinton was impeached. I say this half in jest and half seriously because it’s easy to laugh at President Clinton, but as a result of impeaching President Clinton, we’ve redefined what sex is to a lot of our young people and we’ve said it’s okay to lie to Congress. I think that’s been woven into the thread of our society. That failed impeachment attempt actually damaged the country.
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    Liberal Prof.: Obama Has Brought Us To ‘Constitutional Tipping Point’

    Liberal Prof.: Obama Has Brought Us To ‘Constitutional Tipping Point’

    'It’s a dangerous point for our system to be in'



    BY: Washington Free Beacon Staff
    February 26, 2014 4:12 pm

    During testimony before the House Judiciary Committee Wednesday, liberal constitutional professor Jonathan Turley said that the growth of executive power is “accelerating” and that the growth of such power has brought us to a “constitutional tipping point”.

    “I believe we are now at a constitutional tipping point in our system,” Turley, who teaches law at George Washington University, said. “It’s a dangerous point for our system to be in, and I believe that your response has to begin before this president leaves office. No one in our system goes it alone.”

    Turley noted that while he agrees with the President on most of his policies, it still “does not alter the fact that I believe the means he is doing is wrong” and that the continued acceleration of executive power can be “a dangerous change in our system.”

    Turley flatly rejected the Obama administration’s reason for using more executive powers, which the President claims is a gridlocked Congress. “It is simply untrue that we’re living in very different or unprecedented times. The framers lived in these times,” Turley pointed out, noting that back then Congress used the Alien and Sedition Act to arrest opponents and Thomas Jefferson referred to his opponents as the “reign of witches.”

    “This is not a different political time, and it shouldn’t be used as an excuse for extra-constitutional action,” Turley warned.

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    From the blog ..

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    SORRY but I DISAGREE! Obama is the one who is intimidating Judges and even congress members. Obama is using every single agency in his control to threaten and intimidate peaceful Americans who disagree with his policies and that of the progressive Democrats. Conservatism is under attack because we value the Constitution and Obama has proclaimed the Constitution and Bill of Rights as flawed documents. His rule has been about instilling Communism and reducing our rights while the blind sheep stare in adoration. Impeachment is the answer and term limits for congress as well. It's time to clean out all the dead wood and start fresh

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    The Supreme Court can not review anything that the secret NSA courts are doing.

    When that came about via a law from Congress and the signature of the President, the Constitution and the "rule of law" ceased to exist because the so-called "supreme" court became irrelevant and the Members of the Congress were forever barred from knowing or reviewing what the secret government is doing. Who heads the secret government? Right now Obama and it suits his rule-by-decree agenda just fine.

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    We had to fight against Zuckerbverg’s mega bucks and his mega rich Silicon Valley geeks and mega bucks from the US chamber of commerce and the big bureaucrat Union, most big religious dominations; we beat all of them to stand still on amnesty. ALIPAC with its miniscule $120,000 ? annual budget and its few allies BEAT THE MEGA RICH MARXISTS AND THEIR DUPES TO A STANDSTILL! And by no means was there even a majority of the people opposed to amnesty actively engaged in the battle. Of course the war is not over, but it shows what we can do if we put our hart and soul into it.

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    Human Events "Attorney General" Holder declares an end to the rule of law!


    From this day forward, the Ruling Class will decide what the law means at any particular moment. It is no longer necessary to muster popular support for the lawful process of amending or rescinding legislation. Our rulers will tell us if they think all, or part, of any given bill should be obeyed, and by whom.

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    Glenn Beck: Self-identified Obama supporter delivers a must-see critique of Obama

    There was a remarkable moment during a congressional hearing on Wednesday when constitutional law expert and self-proclaimed Obama supporter, Jonathan Turley, explained the legislative branch of the U.S. government is in danger of becoming irrelevant because of persistant executive overreach. Turley, who is a professor of public interest law at George Washington University in Washington, D.C., believes America has reached a “constitutional tipping point” under President Obama’s watch.
    “This is, I think, the most important… moment of audio… in the last I don’t even know how many years. This is the American crisis… This is beyond the constitutional crisis. This is a constitutional tipping point,” Glenn said on radio this morning.




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    POWER OF PEN AND PHONE - 1946 Archive Film Proves Despotism Has Taken over America

    The Declaration of Independence boldly states: "When a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."

    Thomas Jefferson, writing on behalf of the independent-minded colonists in 1776, backed up the Declaration's conclusion with numerous examples of British tyranny, stating: "To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world."

    Compare them to the United States and global system we live under today.
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