Boehner plans to file suit against Obama over alleged abuse of executive power
Published June 25, 2014


House Speaker John Boehner announced Wednesday he plans to file suit against President Obama over his alleged abuse of executive power.

"This is not about impeachment -- it's about him faithfully executing the laws of this country," Boehner said.

The speaker had been weighing such a lawsuit in recent days, over concerns that Obama exceeded his constitutional authority with executive actions.

The lawsuit has not yet been filed. But asked Wednesday whether he intended to proceed, Boehner said: "I am."

The decision to sue would still have to be formally approved by a group of House leaders. Presuming that step is cleared, the suit is expected to be filed in a few weeks.

The plaintiff would be the House of Representatives.


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Rahm is back in DC???

I dunno about that..... I heard Obama's gonna resign tho.... 😟

Someone should tell the Tea Party to cancel next months rally to ensure that Obama does not get reelected.....

It;s about time!!

He findly found his balls!!

The Supreme Court delivered a blow Thursday to President Obama, ruling that he went too far in making recess appointments to the National Labor Relations Board.

In a unanimous decision, the high court sided with Senate Republicans and limited the president's power to fill high-level vacancies with temporary appointments. It was the first-ever Supreme Court test involving the long-standing practice of presidents naming appointees when the Senate is on break.

In this case, Obama had argued that the Senate was on an extended holiday break when he filled slots at the NLRB in 2012. He argued the brief sessions it held every three days were a sham that was intended to prevent him from filling the seats.

The justices rejected that argument, though, declaring the Senate was not actually in a formal recess when Obama acted during that three-day window.

Justice Stephen Breyer said in his majority opinion that a congressional break has to last at least 10 days to be considered a recess under the Constitution.

"Three days is too short a time to bring a recess within the scope of the Clause. Thus we conclude that the President lacked the power to make the recess appointments here at issue," Breyer wrote.

At the same time, the court upheld the general authority of the president to make recess appointments.

Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, among those who criticized the president for unilaterally filling the NLRB slots, applauded the high court decision on Thursday.

"The president made an unprecedented power grab by placing political allies at a powerful federal agency while the Senate was meeting regularly and without even bothering to wait for its advice and consent," he said in a statement. "A unanimous Supreme Court has rejected this brazen power-grab."


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This is cool and all, but will anything actually be accomplished from it?

You should be ashamed of yourself for continuing to support these corrupt Bastards!!🌫

😟

Most politicians are corrupt. Their party affiliation is not the common denominator, the corruption is.

I bet Obama won't even get another term.

I'm definitely not voting for him come 2016....

+1

The Republican's and far right are once again shooting themselves in the foot with this BS. They might as well have a rally to get a Democrat elected to the Whitehouse. I can't believe that they honestly think that this is a good thing for the country &/or the Republican party. What a bunch of tools & fools. 🌫

Eric Cantor losing the nomination because he is not conservative enough shows just how broken the republican party is. At a critical moment in time when we need a strong republican party their wheels are coming off.

. . . . and Boehner wept . . .

I've said it before & I'll say it again - Boehner is a clown.

Surely, somewhere The President is trembling...

Are there any candidates yet?

Right now we have Clinton and a bunch of Tea Partiers who are so far off the deep end it's not even funny. The far right has so gutted the Republican party there's no chance of a viable candidate coming out... that leaves us with a one-party system. Yay.

libertarian is the only way to go

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Thanks for the setup. 🙂