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-Land of the Free
Krauthammer: 'If Obama Wins Exec Amnesty Case, €˜There Are No Laws'
2016-04-08
[Breitbart] Columnist Charles Krauthammer argued that if the Supreme Court fails to overturn President Obama’s executive actions in United States v. Texas and allows the administration to grant government benefits to noncitizens "you can send Congress home, and can you eliminate Article I from the Constitution, then there are no laws" on Thursday’s "Special Report" on the Fox News Channel.

Krauthammer said, [relevant remarks begin around 3:30] "If the president is allow to do go ahead and to do this, and it’s decided that it’s constitutional, then you can send Congress home, and can you eliminate Article I from the Constitution, then there are no laws. I mean, the judge is right. As a policy issue, the Congress decides, it passes the law, it decided that this is not appropriate. The president has a big heart, big heart with your tax money, and the Congress said no, it [government benefits] goes only to citizens. And if the president can unilaterally overturn that, then we have no laws and we have, essentially a single branch of government, that legislates. This is a huge decision. I do not understand how the four liberal justices will, as they will, resist the logic here."
Posted by:Besoeker

#8  There is only power in a manner of speaking. Politics is the process by which people in a region determine by some type of peaceful/orderly process who gives orders and agree on who takes those orders. Warfare / civil unrest occurs when the process breaks down and force is substituted for agreement.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418   2016-04-08 16:14  

#7  The moment that happens, is when you get things like the French revolution
The other trigger to the French revolution was, IIRC, severe financial hardship for those French at the low end of the economic spectrum of the time. The USA has been on the edge of financial disaster / widespread deprivation since about 2006, despite the bogus statistics of the gubmint and the boosterism of those supporting the financial oligarchy.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418   2016-04-08 16:10  

#6  Resisting logic is what liberal judges do. Torturing & twisting reason, logic and language is what everyone pursuing a paramount agenda does. Pursuing a paramount agenda is one way to carry out one's bias. In this case, the "agenda" is unlimited executive power / restoration of tyranny, and the cancellation of centuries of government by consent of the governed.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418   2016-04-08 16:07  

#5  I really think they don't want to reach the point we decide the laws are null and void. And I mean we, not them. The moment that happens, is when you get things like the French revolution
Posted by: Silentbrick   2016-04-08 15:03  

#4  Resisting logic is what liberal judges do.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305   2016-04-08 12:41  

#3  There are only laws as long as people are will to enforce and follow them. Otherwise they are nothing but ink stains on pulped wood.

Posted by: DarthVader   2016-04-08 11:55  

#2  It took him this long to figure it out? There is only power (and ritual to keep the rubes in line).

you can send Congress home,

On the bright side, think of all the money that will be saved and graft unpaid released upon the moribund economy. (do I need to put a /sarc on that?)
Posted by: Procopius2k   2016-04-08 08:10  

#1  The good doctor stands at the station awaiting a train which has sadly, already departed.
Posted by: Besoeker   2016-04-08 04:28  

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