WILL CONGRESS REIN IN THIS ‘IMPERIAL’ PRESIDENCY?

For those who did not watch even parts of this hearing, we all need to know what constitutional experts had to say about what is going on right now with this administration and the dangers to our very way of life and form of government.  These experts were both conservatives and liberals, and their message is one we should all take notice of.  It makes it very important for the states to stand up and take notice and I think they have as we now have had a meeting of representatives from 32 states, and we have 3 states including our state of Florida pre-file for a convention of the states which would allow the states to add amendments to the constitution which could reign in Mr. Obama and his administration and even get rid of Obamacare if they wanted to as well as force a balanced budget or get rid of the IRS and change the tax system.  The options are unlimited.

Dec. 7, 2013 9:00am

DIANA WEST

An extraordinary thing happened in Washington, D.C., this week. Appearing before a House Judiciary subcommittee, several constitutional scholars forthrightly and unmistakably outlined the leading danger to the survival of our constitutional republic: the usurpation of powers by President Barack Hussein Obama.

This wasn’t just me, a non-lawyer, perplexed by how out-of-whack constitutional checks and balances have become and, in particular, how enfeebled the legislative branch is. This wasn’t even Mark Levin, a constitutional lawyer himself, explaining to his radio audience that we are living in “post-constitutional” times.

This was, for starters, Jonathan Turley, a liberal Georgetown law professor, who, noting that he once voted for Obama, nonetheless warned America that the concentration of executive branch powers, having accelerated under George W. Bush, is approaching a crisis under Obama.

“The problem with what the president is doing is that he’s not simply posing a danger to the constitutional system,” Turley said. “He’s becoming the very danger the Constitution was designed to avoid.”

“He’s becoming the very danger the Constitution was designed to avoid.”

Turley was referring to the imperial-style powers Obama’s executive branch has amassed to the detriment of the Constitution’s system of checks and balances. When functional, checks and balances prevent any one branch of government (executive, legislative, judiciary) from becoming more powerful than any other. Today, that system is broken.

“Each branch is given the tools to defend itself, and the framers assumed that they would have the ambition and institutional self-interest to use them,” Turley stated in written testimony. “That assumption is now being put to the test as many members remain silent in the face of open executive encroachment by the executive branch.”

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