Problems With Authority

[Valin]

WSJ:

Lawless regulators and the White House earn a judicial rebuke.

8/13/13

 

President Obama asserted the unilateral power to "tweak" inconvenient laws in last Friday's news conference, underscoring his Administration's increasingly cavalier notions about law enforcement. So it's good that the judiciarya coequal branch of government, in case the Administration forgotis starting to check the White House.

 

In a major rebuke on Tuesday, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals issued an unusual writ of mandamus, which is a direct judicial order compelling the government to fulfill a legal obligation. This "extraordinary remedy" is nominally about nuclear waste, writes Judge Brett Kavanaugh for the 2-1 majority, yet the case "raises significant questions about the scope of the Executive's authority to disregard federal statutes."

 

In re: Aiken County is another episode in the political soap opera about spent-fuel storage at Nevada's Yucca Mountain, an Energy Department project that requires the approval of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. The Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1983 requires that the NRC "shall consider" the license application for the repository and "shall issue a final decision approving or disapproving" it within three years of submission.

 

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[Valin]

Morning Bell: The Imperial President Will Act on His Own

Matt Grinney

August 13, 2013

 

In a recent email to supporters, President Obama lamented the frustrating inadequacy of his office. Theres only so much I can do on my own without Congress, he confessed.

 

As a matter of constitutional interpretation, hes right. But in practice, the President has shown a distinct contempt for the legal limits on his power.

 

Obamas imperial presidency has manifested itself in many ways. Often he willfully neglects his constitutional duty to take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed. As weve seen with education, immigration, and health care, suspending the law amounts to rewriting the law.

 

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[SrWoodchuck]

As stated by @righteousmomma![?] in another thread.....why are we not challenging his, enforcement or partisan lack thereof of existing law, his XO's & illegal appointments..........in court?

 

 

Via TheFeralIrishman