{"id":13665,"date":"2012-04-04T18:38:16","date_gmt":"2012-04-04T22:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=13665"},"modified":"2012-04-04T18:38:16","modified_gmt":"2012-04-04T22:38:16","slug":"fifth-circuit-tells-doj-to-do-obama%e2%80%99s-constitutional-homework","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/13665\/fifth-circuit-tells-doj-to-do-obama%e2%80%99s-constitutional-homework\/","title":{"rendered":"Fifth Circuit Tells DOJ To Do Obama\u2019s Constitutional Homework"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Barack Obama\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/index.php\/commentary\/59-media-issues\/1372-obama-the-intellectual-law-professor-who-doesnt-understand-the-supreme-court \" target=\"_blank\">controversial warning<\/a> to the Supreme Court that a vote to overturn ObamaCare would be \u201cunprecedented\u201d is getting push-back from the federal judiciary.<\/p>\n<p>During oral arguments on a different ObamaCare provision than those argued before the Supreme Court last week, Fifth Circuit Judge Jerry Smith asked a Department of Justice lawyer for clarification.\u00a0 \u201cDoes the Department of Justice recognize that federal courts have the authority in appropriate circumstances to strike federal statutes because of one or more constitutional infirmities?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To drive home the point, Judge Smith <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2012\/04\/04\/justice-department-under-deadline-to-answer-court-over-obamas-health-law\/\" target=\"_blank\">ordered DOJ to provide a written explanation<\/a> of its views \u201cno less than three pages, single spaced.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The only problem with the homework assignment is that it wasn\u2019t directed to the right person.\u00a0 President Obama, that one-time constitutional law professor at the University of Chicago, should be the one sitting at the keyboard relearning first year law.<\/p>\n<p>At least then he\u2019d be aware that what\u2019s truly unprecedented is his belief that federal courts are rubber stamps for his liberal agenda.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Barack Obama\u2019s controversial warning to the Supreme Court that a vote to overturn ObamaCare would be \u201cunprecedented\u201d is getting push-back from the federal judiciary. During oral arguments on a different ObamaCare provision than those argued before the Supreme Court last week, Fifth Circuit Judge Jerry Smith asked a Department of Justice lawyer for clarification.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[143,144,739,35,92],"class_list":["post-13665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-barack-obama","tag-constitution","tag-liberal","tag-obamacare","tag-supreme-court"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13665"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13671,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13665\/revisions\/13671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}