(CNSNews.com) - President Obama "can try" to go around Congress in his attempt to close the detention center at Guantanamo Bay Cuba, House Speaker Paul Ryan told news conference on Wednesday. "He has no authority to do so," Ryan added.
Ryan reminded reporters that Congress voted overwhelmingly for the National Defense Authorization Act, which contains a provision saying the president may not move Guantanamo inmates to U.S. soil.
"We are making legal preparations if the president tries to break the law," Ryan said. "And what boggles my mind, is that the president is contemplating directing the military to knowingly break the law.
"Our law is really clear, and by the way, Democrats wrote this law when they were in the majority, when they ran Congress, which is, these detainees cannnot come to American soil.
"So if the president proceeds with knowingly breaking the law and asking the military to break the law, he will be met with fierce bipartisan oppostion here in Congress, and we're taking all legal preparations necessary to meet with that resistance.
"He can't do it because the law is really clear," Ryan said.
But the White House on Tuesday refused to rule out executive action:
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Lock the Punk up Ryan....
ReplyDeleteSimple. If he breaks the law arrest him.
ReplyDeleteHe broke or has broken every other campaign promise he ever made years ago so he just needs to leave this alone, and go away to where ever he will be living when he leaves office and play golf. And yes lock him up if he breaks the law - him and Hillary would be good cell mates.
ReplyDeleteYes, because you have done such a great job the last 23 times he broke the law...
ReplyDeleteThe law means nothing to a lawless administration.
ReplyDeleteObama should be hung for treason on the White house lawn.
ReplyDeleteAll I hear from Ryan and congress on stopping Obama is 'blah blah blah bub blah blah' ! Congress needs to take action and quit speaking out the sides of there mouths!
ReplyDeleteThe military needs to show some brass and refuse this traitor. It's time for our military to segregate itself from Obama. He is a criminal and is certainly not a 'commander-in-chief'.
ReplyDeleteIt's well past time for the military to 'pull an Obama' and subvert Constitutional law.
I'm thinking Valkyrie.