[AnNahar] Britannia's UK Independence Party (UKIP) celebrated winning its second parliament seat in a blow for the government that further fragments the political landscape ahead of next year's general election.
Mark Reckless was re-elected in Rochester and Strood in southeast England, after defecting from Prime Minister David Cameron ... has stated that he is certainly a big Thatcher fan, but I don't know whether that makes me a Thatcherite, which means he's not. Since he is not deeply ideological he lacks core principles and is easily led. He has been described as certainly not a Pitt, Elder or Younger, but he does wear a nice suit so maybe he's Beau Brummel ... 's Conservative Party to UKIP, which wants Britannia to leave the European Union
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[WashingtonExaminer] House Republicans on Friday announced their long-anticipated lawsuit to challenge President B.O.'s unilateral actions on his healthcare law.
The lawsuit contends the president overstepped his legal authority when he acted alone to wave the Affordable Care Act's employer mandate and the penalties for failing to comply with it.
The lawsuit was filed against the departments of Health and Human Services and the Treasury.
"Time after time, the president has chosen to ignore the will of the American people and re-write federal law on his own without a vote of Congress," said House Speaker John It is not pronounced 'Boner!' Boehner ... the occasionally weepy leader of House Republicans... , R-Ohio. "That's not the way our system of government was designed to work."
Boehner said the Republican-controlled House has an obligation "to stand up for the Constitution."
"If this president can get away with making his own laws, future presidents will have the ability to as well," he said.
[CNSNews] Even before President B.O. announced that his immigration plan will proceed in the absence of legislation, several state attorneys-general announced they plan to sue the president.
"It is anticipated tonight's speech will again prove our president sees himself as above the law," Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt said on Thursday.
"Regardless of what the president thinks the law ought to be, our Constitution dictates that Congress makes the law, it is the presidents duty to faithfully execute those laws. If the President takes an executive action that violates his constitutional duty to faithfully execute the immigration laws passed by Congress, we will take action to hold him accountable."
Texas Attorney-General Greg Abbot (now the governor-elect) also plan to file a lawsuit next week:
"President B.O. has circumvented Congress and deliberately bypassed the will of the American people, eroding the very foundation of our nation's Constitution and bestowing a legacy of lawlessness," Abbott said in a news release.
"Texans have witnessed firsthand the costs and consequences caused by President B.O.'s dictatorial immigration policy and now we must work together toward a solution in fixing our broken immigration system. Following tonight's pronouncement, I am prepared to immediately challenge President B.O. in court, securing our state's illusory sovereignty and guaranteeing the rule of law as it was intended under the Constitution."
Laura Ingraham, a conservative talk show host who is also an attorney, said it's not clear if the states have the standing to sue the president in this case, but Congress does:
"I don't want to get too into the legalese here, but you have to show that you and your state, how far it was personally hurt, what your cause of action is. And in my mind, the best cause of action that can be had here is one filed by a member of Congress. And the basis of that lawsuit would be a separation of powers claim -- namely that the president usurped legislative authority.
"Clearly it was not the intent of Congress to move to both temporarily legalize the people who are here illegally and even go beyond that to institute this new policy of new foreign workers allowed to come in, you know, the new students who will be able to stay and so forth. That goes way beyond the traditional prosecutorial discretion that we have seen with presidents in the past," Ingraham told Fox News's Bill O'Reilly.
"Again, I haven't seen the legal theories they are thinking about on the state level. But I think the strongest case -- and I'm not even sure it's a winning case, but the strongest case -- is going to be filed by a member of Congress."
Ingraham noted that House Speaker John It is not pronounced 'Boner!' Boehner ... the occasionally weepy leader of House Republicans... has retained attorney Jonathan Turley to look into the constitutional questions presented by Obama's immigration action.
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Even before President B.O. announced that his immigration plan will proceed in the absence of legislation, several state attorneys-general announced they plan to sue the president.
Even Obama disagrees with himself about the legality of his actions if what he said awhile ago means anything.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
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