OBAMA’S 6-YEAR ASSAULT ON THE COURTS

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Breitbart:

As a candidate for President of the United States, Barack Obama promised to restore balance to the Constitution, after what many argued was a period of executive overreach, infringing on civil liberties and the balance of powers.

 

When he launched his campaign, he even referred to his past career as a “civil rights lawyer,” and a constitutional law teacher.

 

Once in office, however, Obama expanded executive powers even further, and led a 6-year assault on judicial independence.

 

The most recent example was on Monday, when Obama discussed the upcoming Supreme Court ruling in King v. Burwell, which challenges federal subsidies for Obamacare insurance policies in states that have not set up their own exchanges. The plaintiffs argue that the letter of the law bars such subsidies. Obama, citing “well-established statutory interpretation approaches,” said the case should be “easy” to throw out, and added: “Frankly, it probably shouldn’t have been taken up.”

 

It was “indecent,” in the words of Charles Krauthammer, for the president to attack the Supreme Court’s competence in advance of the ruling. But it was not the first time Obama has done so.