Congressmen Want to Bring Obama to Court for Not Faithfully Executing Laws
30 members support the House Resolution calling for civil action.
Congressman
Tom Rice of South Carolina, a Republican, is sponsoring a resolution in
the House of Representatives that would, if adopted, direct the
legislative body "to bring a civil action for declaratory or injunctive
relief to challenge certain policies and actions taken by the executive
branch." In other words, Rep. Rice wants to take President Obama to
court for not faithfully executing the laws.
"President
Obama has adopted a practice of picking and choosing which laws he
wants to enforce. In most cases, his laws of choice conveniently
coincide with his Administration’s political agenda. Our Founding
Fathers created the Executive Branch to implement and enforce the laws
written by Congress and vested this power in the President. However,
President Obama has chosen to ignore some of the laws written by
Congress and implemented by preceding Presidents," Rice wrote in a
letter to fellow House members to ask them to co-sponsor this
resolution.
"This
resolution allows the House of Representatives to bring legal action
against the Executive Branch and challenge recent actions, inactions,
and policies."
The "legal
action against the President" would be, according to an aide for Rep.
Rice, "for ignoring Article II, Section 3 of the Constitution."
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