Meese: Obama Risks Impeachment If He Uses Executive Order for Gun Control

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Newsmax:

Meese: Obama Risks Impeachment If He Uses Executive Order for Gun Control

 

Monday, 14 Jan 2013 09:14 PM

By Todd Beamon and Kathleen Walter

Former U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese III declared in an exclusive Newsmax TV interview that President Barack Obama could easily be impeached if he bypassed Congress and enacted gun-control legislation by executive order.

 

Meese's comments came on the same day President Obama told the White House press corp at the last news conference of his first term that he was reviewing actions, including issuing executive orders, where he could take action without congressional approval to confront gun violence in the nation. Obama said he would present a plan within days.

 

The options include stronger background checks, a meaningful ban on assault weapons, and limits on high-capacity ammunition magazines, Obama said, conceding that was unsure how such steps could pass Congress.

 

“I’m confident there are some steps we can take that don’t require legislation and that are within my authority as president,” Obama said.

 

“It would not be legal. It would not be constitutional,” Meese, who served under President Ronald Reagan, tells Newsmax. “And, indeed

[Valin]

@Draggingtree

 

I'm sorry but impeachment is not going to happen! Assuming (and we all know what happens when you assume.) The House brings charges (Like That's gonna happen), the question needs to be asked....will the Senate Dominated by the Democrat party convict the leader of their party?

 

When we on the Right start putting out crap like this it just makes us look silly.

There are other actions that can be taken...The House can not fund these executive orders...The3 States can simply say "we're not going to enforce them...100,000 gun owners can decend on DC stand in front of the White House and politely tell Obama to stick it where the sun don't shine.

 

 

But let's lose the impeachment talk.

[logicnreason]

@Draggingtree

 

I'm sorry but impeachment is not going to happen! Assuming (and we all know what happens when you assume.) The House brings charges (Like That's gonna happen), the question needs to be asked....will the Senate Dominated by the Democrat party convict the leader of their party?

 

When we on the Right start putting out crap like this it just makes us look silly.

There are other actions that can be taken...The House can not fund these executive orders...The3 States can simply say "we're not going to enforce them...100,000 gun owners can decend on DC stand in front of the White House and politely tell Obama to stick it where the sun don't shine.

 

 

But let's lose the impeachment talk.

 

Hear, Hear!!

 

Exactly right.

 

There are other, better, more efficacious ways to do this. Let's use them.

[Argyle58]

The Executive Orders that were presented to The "o", IF signed, do not rise to the level of impeachment. They will be, however, extremely vulnerable to legal challenge. The Supreme Court ruled in 1952 that Executive Orders cannot be issued to create law, nor can they contradict existing law.

 

Any Executive Order issued on this subject would do both.

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