{"id":37735,"date":"2019-12-12T12:26:30","date_gmt":"2019-12-12T17:26:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=37735"},"modified":"2019-12-12T12:26:30","modified_gmt":"2019-12-12T17:26:30","slug":"about-that-oft-repeated-concern-for-the-constitution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=37735","title":{"rendered":"About That Oft Repeated Concern For The Constitution…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday PJMedia<\/a> posted an article about constitutional violations under President Obama. Somehow I don’t remember the Democrats being very upset about those violations.<\/p>\n

The article lists the violations:<\/p>\n

5. Illegally firing an inspector general<\/strong><\/em><\/h4>\n

In 2009, Barack Obama illegally fired Gerald Walpin, the inspector general for the Corporation for National and Community Service,\u00a0 without notice or providing the legally mandated explanation for the firing to Congress<\/a>. Obama did this to protect Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson, an ally of his, whom Walpin had been investigating for misusing federal funds Walpin had discovered a cover-up of sexual assault allegations by minors against Johnson<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

4. Giving \u201cgreen energy\u201d loans to donor companies<\/em><\/strong><\/h4>\n

If you want to talk about an abuse of power, Barack Obama and Joe Biden were both personally involved in the decision-making process to determine who got <\/a>$80 billion for clean energy loans, grants, and tax credits for green energy companies, in a highly politicized process that favored companies that supported the Obama-Biden campaign over those that didn\u2019t. It was no coincidence that the companies that got all the cash were donors to their campaign. In fact, DOE officials expressed concerned that Obama and Biden\u2019s involvement was putting taxpayer dollars at risk. Not only did they give all this money to green energy companies that donated to their campaign, but the Obama administration also stole proprietary technology from companies that didn\u2019t get the loans to the Obama cronies who got them.<\/a> This scandal was much bigger than Solyndra, but the calls for Obama\u2019s impeachment weren\u2019t there.<\/strong><\/p>\n

3. Unconstitutional recess appointments<\/em><\/strong><\/h4>\n

When Obama made a number of controversial picks for the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), he was unable to get them through the Senate. So, in January 2012, he declared his nominees appointed to the Senate via recess appointments. Except the Senate wasn\u2019t even in recess at the time. Obama\u2019s actions were such a blatant abuse of power that experts on both sides of the aisle blasted Obama for what he did<\/a>\u00a0and a federal appeals court overturned the appointments a few days after his second inauguration<\/a>, declaring, \u201cAllowing the president to define the scope of his own appointments power would eviscerate the Constitution\u2019s separation of powers.\u201d The United States Supreme Court ultimately took up the case, and unanimously agreed Obama abused his power<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

2. Illegally reinterpreting Title IX<\/em><\/strong><\/h4>\n

When Title IX was written, the goal was to protect people from discrimination based on sex in education. The notion of \u201cgender identity\u201d or \u201cgender expression\u201d wasn\u2019t even a thing back in 1972 when it was passed. Nevertheless, Obama unilaterally decided that \u201csex\u201d meant \u201cgender identity\u201d and threatened to enforce this bizarre idea. This was a huge violation of the rights and privacy of women and girls nationwide without so much as a national debate in Congress, where this issue needed to be worked out. Instead of going to Congress, Obama simply threatened educational institutions at all levels with the loss of Title IX funding if they didn\u2019t comply and allow boys to share bathrooms, locker rooms, and dorm rooms with girls, as well as allow boys to play on girls sports teams. Obama\u2019s going around Congress on this issue was a huge violation of power.<\/strong><\/p>\n

1. Changing immigration law via executive order<\/em><\/strong><\/h4>\n

The truth is, Obama spent most of his presidency with a divided Congress or a GOP-controlled Congress. His radical left-wing agenda was mostly DOA because rather than work toward compromise legislation, his default position was to act on his own, assuming the executive authority to change laws via executive fiat. Anyone who\u2019s familiar with the Constitution knows he had no such authority.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Still, when the DREAM Act failed to pass, Obama issued an executive order creating DACA, an executive-branch version of the DREAM Act. Obama literally bypassed Congress, changing U.S. immigration law via executive pen to appease his pro-open-borders base.<\/strong><\/p>\n

There seems to be something of a double standard here. The Democrats are not able to name one instance where President Trump abused his power or violated the Constitution, yet there was not a peep out of them when President Obama openly violated the Constitution.<\/p>\n

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