"We Are Now At A Constitutional Tipping Point In Our System"

George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley testifies before the House Judiciary Committee.

"I testified at the earlier hearing about the separation of powers, its history and its function and also my view that the president has in fact exceeded his authority in a way that is creating a destabilizing influence in a tripartite or three-branch system. Now, I want to emphasize, of course, that this problem didn’t begin with President Obama. I was critical of his predecessor, President Bush, as well, but the rate at which executive power is being concentrated in our system is accelerating. And, frankly, I am very alarmed by the implications of that aggregation of power. What also alarms me, however, is that the two other branches appear not just simply passive, but inert in the face of this concentration of authority. The fact that I happen to think the president is right on many of these policies does not alter the fact that I believe the means he is doing is wrong, and that this can be a dangerous change in our system. And our system is changing in a very fundamental way. And it’s changing without a whimper of regret or opposition."

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I have to give Prof. Turley some credit for his candor. He is merely saying what anyone who knows the first thing about Constitutional Law would admit under truth serum, but these days, saying something like that can have severe career implications for you.

He makes two very valid points. One, Obama is acting more like a dictator than a President. Turley happens to be a liberal who agrees with obama, but he sees the downside to turning the presidency into a dictatorship. Two, he is calling out the other branches for not using the abundant authority they have under the Constitution to rein obama in. Democrats in congress, which has the most to lose to obama's power grab, are actually cheering him on and facilitating it by underhanded things like changing the filibuster rules.

Guys like Ted Cruz and Rand Paul would jerk Obama's leash hard, but they cannot act alone. As it is, they are very unpopular with their own party for not going along.

This is a dismal period in US history. Obama has not only eroded congressional authority, he has also undermined the federal system by infringing states' rights to make their own laws on issues such as voting, marriage and treatment of illegal immigrants. He has been aided in these endeavors by highly politicized federal judges and unethical Justice Department lawyers. Again, the republicans' response has been timid and ineffectual.

The real danger here is not what a weak, disorganized, ineffectual leader like obama is doing. It is is what a strong, decisive, popular president might do with these grossly expanded powers.

 

It's the third leg of the stool being pulled.

First was Lincoln usurping states rights and giving then to the national gov't.

Then, FDR turned negative rights into positive rights.

Now, Obama turns the rule of law into the rule of men.

State sovereignty, bill of rights, and the rule of law now turned completely upside down from how the country was begun.

and there's no unbreaking an egg.

 

If the situation is that of a three-legged stool, then we would have tipped over after Lincoln. But, here we are.

<del>The sky is falling!</del> The sky is gonna fall!

 

THIS is your retort to a metaphor?

 

Go easy on him. He comes here to work out.

 

It took the soviet union seventy years to finally fall apart and there were idiot leftard highly acclaimed economists who even wrote textbooks for kiddies that were telling us the USSR was doing fine economically right before the final implosion.

 

And you come here to follow me around.

 

I never understood that comment from rectum. I mean...how mentally stimulating can trolling be anyway?