Thread: Legal Scholar Turley: ‘Imperial Presidency’ Emerging A.K.A. GANGSTER GOVERNMENT

Legal Scholar Turley: ‘Imperial Presidency’ Emerging

BY STEVE STRAUB ON DECEMBER 7, 2013 · 21 COMMENTS · IN CURRENT EVENTS

I think another name for this is GANGSTER GOVERNMENT:
Via NewsMax:

Only the courts can stop President Barack Obama from tweaking the Affordable Care Act without going through Congress, according to Jonathan Turley, a legal scholar and professor at George Washington University Law School.

“This administration’s been very successful in blocking challenges to actions that were viewed as unconstitutional. We have to get over what’s called the standing barrier where courts just refuse to hear challenges,” Turley told “The Steve Malzberg Show” on Newsmax TV.

Republican lawmakers have complained that Obama’s changes to the healthcare law, including delays and tweaks of certain parts of it that are causing problems, are unconstitutional because they must be passed through Congress.

“The Framers [of the U.S. Constitution] would have been appalled that you can have very clear violations of the Constitution, but literally no one can actually get a hearing to review them,” Turley said.

“At a minimum, courts should recognize that members of Congress have standing to challenge these types of rules and policies. If they did, many of these things would be struck down.
“We have the emergence of what is often called an imperial presidency, something that we have resisted for generations.

Do you think President Obama and the executive branch of government is out of control?

http://www.thefederalistpapers.org/c...dency-emerging

Legal Scholar Turley: 'Imperial Presidency' Emerging

Friday, 06 Dec 2013 04:57 PM

Only the courts can stop President Barack Obama from tweaking the Affordable Care Act without going through Congress, according to Jonathan Turley, a legal scholar and professor at George Washington University Law School.

"This administration's been very successful in blocking challenges to actions that were viewed as unconstitutional. We have to get over what's called the standing barrier where courts just refuse to hear challenges," Turley told "The Steve Malzberg Show" on Newsmax TV.

Story continues below video.

Video at the Page Link:

Republican lawmakers have complained that Obama's changes to the healthcare law, including delays and tweaks of certain parts of it that are causing problems, are unconstitutional because they must be passed through Congress.

"The Framers [of the U.S. Constitution] would have been appalled that you can have very clear violations of the Constitution, but literally no one can actually get a hearing to review them," Turley said.

"At a minimum, courts should recognize that members of Congress have standing to challenge these types of rules and policies. If they did, many of these things would be struck down.

"We have the emergence of what is often called an imperial presidency, something that we have resisted for generations."

See "The Steve Malzberg Show" on Newsmax TV each weekday live by clicking here now.

© 2013 Newsmax. All rights reserved.

http://www.newsmax.com/NewsmaxTv/tur...o_code=15DCE-1

Liberal Law Professor: Obama 'The Very Danger The Constitution Was Designed To Avoid'

Michael Miller
On December 7, 2013
http://mikesright.wordpress.com/

Video at the Page Link:

Law professor Jonathan Turley was asked at a Congressional hearing this week how Barack Obama’s “unilateral modification” of laws passed by Congress affect the balance of power in Washington. Boy, did he answer.
Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) asked the Georgetown University law professor and regular contributor to MSNBC (not to mention, a strong supporter of Obama in the past):

“Professor Turley, the constitution, the system of separated powers is not simply about stopping one branch of government from usurping another. It’s about protecting the liberty of Americans from the dangers of concentrated government power. How does the president’s unilateral modification of act of Congress affect both the balance of power between the political branches and the liberty interests of the American people?“

Turley’s response was as blunt as it was astonishing:

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The danger is quite severe. The problem with what the president is doing is that he’s not simply posing a danger to the constitutional system. He’s becoming the very danger the Constitution was designed to avoid. That is the concentration of power in every single branch.
This Newtonian orbit that the three branches exist in is a delicate one but it is designed to prevent this type of concentration. There are two trends going on which should be of equal concern to all members of Congress. One is that we have had the radical expansion of presidential powers … we have what many once called an imperial presidency model of largely unchecked authority.
And with that trend we also have the continued rise of this fourth branch. We have agencies that are quite large that issue regulations. The Supreme Court said recently that agencies could actually define their own or interpret their own jurisdiction.

While Turley’s blunt warning is newsworthy, it is made even more so by the fact that he is generally regarded as a liberal. An Obama supporter, no less. Yet, the actions of Barack Obama go largely unchallenged by a “mainstream” media so desperate to see him and his agenda succeed.

Watch Trey Gowdy’s Explosive Question About Obama Vaporize This Stammering Witness

http://www.ijreview.com/2013/12/1000...esigned-avoid/

Here's the video from the above link: