Editorial: Obama's power grab flouts Constitution

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The Detroit News:

August 6, 2012 at 1:00 am

Editorial: Obama's power grab flouts Constitution

Blatant disregard of laws passed by Congress violates separation of powers

 

 

 

Democrats and Republicans alike should be distressed by President Barack Obama's disregard for constitutional limits on his authority. The president's flouting of the separation of powers risks turning this country into something other than a representative democracy. Congress should move in a bipartisan rebuke of Obama's overreach before he neuters that institution.

 

In a blatant challenge to the legislative branch, Obama by executive order tossed out the Clinton-era welfare reform that required able-bodied aid recipients to work, saying the federal government will no longer enforce the law.

This follows the president's unilateral rewrite

 

 

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