'Everybody's bound by the law, including the president. He's not exempt'
On Dec. 19, the Obama administration made its 14th change to Obamacare without requesting congressional action to make the amendments. Such a move is precisely why an effort is underway in the House of Representatives to sue President Obama and force him to abide by constitutional restraints.
The measure is known as the Stop This Overreaching Presidency, or STOP, Act and is sponsored by freshman Rep. Tom Rice, R-S.C. He told WND this is about abiding by the Constitution.
“Article II, Section 3, requires the president to faithfully execute the laws of the United States. Everybody’s bound by the law, including the president. He is not exempt,” Rice said. “If a president is allowed to pick and choose which laws he wishes to enforce, it creates tremendous opportunities for wrongdoing.
“What would we say if the next president who came in decided he didn’t like Obamacare and he wasn’t going to enforce any part of it? What would we say if a president decided he wasn’t going to enforce the maximum bracket on the income tax, or wasn’t going to enforce the income tax on his political friends? Of course, those things wouldn’t be tolerated,” Rice said. “We’ve got a similar type of lines going on here with Obamacare. We’ve got the president giving 1,300 exemptions. We’ve got him waiving the employer mandate for businesses but applying the individual mandate for the common conservative. It’s not right. The law has got to be applied uniformly.”
He said he actually started exploring this legislation earlier in the year based on comments made by a Democrat.
“I started working on this last July,” Rice said. “Right after the extension of the employer mandate was in the press, one of the Democratic senators said, ‘How can the president do this?’ That’s what spurred me to look at what we could do to force the president to enforce the law,” Rice said.
While executive branch changes to Obamacare are the most visible examples of Obama altering laws, Rice said there are plenty of other examples, too.
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I doubt a lawsuit would make any difference.
ReplyDeleteThe proper procedure here is IMPEACHMENT.
But with Harry Reid and the other Dems in the senate, a conviction is unlikely.
Yes, impeachment would be the correct legal path but, as you said, the Senate would never vote to convict so it would be a waste of time. Many times the legal solution is not the correct solution.
ReplyDeleteWho are the Co-Sponsors? I hope Andy Harris is one of them.
ReplyDelete35 reps wasting their time, how is that jobs jobs jobs going?
ReplyDeleteTry anything to stop this piece of trash. So what, if the senate doesn't do their job. One thing is for sure, he will just keep destroying America if someone doesn't try to stop him. Good luck with the lawsuit. Impeachment would be better but anything is better than nothing.
ReplyDeleteAs the suit goes forward, the libtards on the supreme court will twist themselves into pretzels trying to justify Obama's very clearly unconstitutional actions.
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