Obama’s Betrayal of the Constitution

[DesMoinesDem]

Obama’s Betrayal of the Constitution

By BRUCE ACKERMANSEPT. 11, 2014

PRESIDENT OBAMA’s declaration of war against the terrorist group known as the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria marks a decisive break in the American constitutional tradition. Nothing attempted by his predecessor, George W. Bush, remotely compares in imperial hubris.

Mr. Bush gained explicit congressional consent for his invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq. In contrast, the Obama administration has not even published a legal opinion attempting to justify the president’s assertion of unilateral war-making authority. This is because no serious opinion can be written.

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Mr. Obama may rightly be frustrated by gridlock in Washington, but his assault on the rule of law is a devastating setback for our constitutional order. His refusal even to ask the Justice Department to provide a formal legal pretext for the war on ISIS is astonishing.

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But for now the president seems grimly determined to practice what Mr. Bush’s lawyers only preached. He is acting on the proposition that the president, in his capacity as commander in chief, has unilateral authority to declare war.

In taking this step, Mr. Obama is not only betraying the electoral majorities who twice voted him into office on his promise to end Bush-era abuses of executive authority. He is also betraying the Constitution he swore to uphold.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/12/opinion/obamas-betrayal-of-the-constitution.html?_r=0

[grahamhgreen]

1. "it’s important for us not to feel too sanctimonious in retrospect about the tough job that those

folks had. And a lot of those folks were working hard under enormous pressure and are real patriots."

[Tarheel_Dem]

2. Ackermansept is an ass. He called Obama "an imperial president" for appointing Elizabeth Warren....

as a "Special Adviser to the White House". It's so hilarious when Obama says a word that Bush might have used, the internet liberals go nuts, but Mr. Ackersmansept's language is almost teabaggish, and not a peep. "Imperial Presidency"? Really? I'd say he has an agenda much like the idiots & trolls below:



http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052748703989304575503661726493580

[FSogol]

3. What a load of bullocks. A total lie in the first sentence.

No President ever took military action without the approval of Congress? Really?

[William769]

4. What a piece of shit article.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

5. But..but...we have a golden opportunity to lose another war and prove our stupidity!!

[Nuclear Unicorn]

6. There's always impeachment. nt