Obama Skips Past Congress Again With Health Mandate Delay : Roll Call News.
President Barack Obama’s latest legal end run around Congress — delaying enforcement of the employer health mandate — has sparked more questions about whether he’s abusing his executive discretion under the Constitution.
Nothing to see here, move along.
Added: More on the “rule of law” over at Betsy’s page. She concludes…
Even if you agree with Obama and like Obamacare, it has to concern you that one day a president you don’t like will act unilaterally to ignore the text of laws that you do like. Obama is setting such a dangerous precedent that should concern anyone who cares about the rule of law. And it should be even more concerning that such actions can be taken and everyone has to just chill because no one has standing to challenge that action. We’ve already seen the Supreme Court rule this term that no one has standing to support challenges in federal court to an initiative voted on by the majority of a state’s electorate. If we now have the precedent that a president can ignore the text of laws and no one can challenge him because no one will have standing to do so, then we might as well kiss good-bye any hope of maintaining a system of checks and balances.
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