Jonathan Turley chimes in on Obama & the NDAA. Another Constitutional scholar is appalled.

[msanthrope]

40. I take it Turley's still sore over the public spanking he got in Kucinich v. Obama?

This 'constitutional scholar' was recently taken to task by a federal judge for filing a case he knew would be thrown for standing--so either Turley was too stupid to understand the standing question, or, as Judge Reggie Walton pointed out, he's a political hack.

4. Interestingly, Representative Kucinich, the lead plaintiff in Kucinich v. Bush, the case in which these words were written, is the lead plaintiff in this case in which members of Congress are again attempting to bring an action against Executive Branch officials. Indeed, the plaintiffs "acknowledge the contrary result" reached by the District of Columbia Circuit in a case also involving alleged presidential violations of the War Powers Clause and the War Powers Resolution. See Pls.' Opp'n at 17. While there may conceivably be some political benefit in suing the President and the Secretary of Defense, in light of shrinking judicial budgets, scarce judicial resources, and a heavy caseload, the Court finds it frustrating to expend time and effort adjudicating the relitigation of settled questions of law. The Court does not mean to imply that the judiciary should be anything but open and accommodating to all members of society, but is simply expressing its dismay that the plaintiffs are seemingly using the limited resources of this Court to achieve what appear to be purely political ends, when it should be clear to them that this Court is powerless to depart from clearly established precedent of the Supreme Court and the District of Columbia Circuit.


https://ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show_public_doc?2011cv1096-14

I note that Turley didn't disclose that he'd recently lost a case against Obama--and felt it necessary to take to his blog to defend himself against said footnote---but we are supposed to see him as impartial? Fair???

http://jonathanturley.org/2011/10/20/federal-judge-dismisses-war-powers-challenge-by-members-of-congress/#more-40743