Thursday, February 27, 2014

US in the constitutional crisis

Some people from both political sides believe that the US is heading for or already is in the constitutional crisis. President's words ("I got a pen") and actions cause the alarm because he is talking about assuming an authority he doesn't have. President Obama, considered to be a constitutional scholar, is an executive while Congress is the body that passes the laws he supposed to enforce or at least follow. However President Obama acts as if he had authority to do both, pass and execute laws. That is an over reach or "power grab". Here is a professor of public interest law, a Democrat, who sound an alarm: