While we're all laughing at Obama for claiming that the SCOTUS would be taking an "unprecedented extraordinary step of overturning a law" that conflicted with the Constitution (in this case ObamaCare and its individual mandate), the fine people at the New York Sun decided to lend Barry a helping hand and point out the precedence of said action - something a Constitutional scholar should already be intimately and thoroughly aware of: Quote: [HR][/HR] Ex Parte Obama The president worries the Supreme Court might overturn a law passed by Congress. The Founders were quite comfortable with the idea. New York Sun Editorial ...It is the aspersions the President cast on the Supreme Court, though, that take the cake. We speak of the libel about the court being an "unelected group of people" who might "somehow overturn a duly constituted and passed law." This libel was dealt with more than two centuries ago in the newspaper column known as 78 Federalist and written by Alexander Hamilton. It is the essay in which Hamilton, a big proponent of federal power, famously described the Court as "the weakest of the three departments of power." It argued that the people could never be endangered by the court Thread started at Forum 4 Politics on 04-04-2012 02:23 PM
