President Obama Causes Numerous Constitutional Crises

Since being inaugurated to occupy the oval office, President Obama has presided over several Constitutional crises that mark the course of his ideological campaign to radically transform America. In doing so, the President risks not only the interpretation of the US Constitution, but whether or not our government will continue to heed that all important document in the future.

Recess Appointment Controversy

The latest Constitutional crisis that occurred as the President made recess appointments during the second session of the 112th Congress so that his appointee, Richard Cordray would have an extended session or year of holding onto his position even if Obama were to be defeated for re-election for a second term. Characterized as a showdown between the President and the Congress, Obama has violated 90 years of Pro forma tradition in these appointments. The Recess Appointments Clause does allow for a president to choose appointees during the recess of the Senate for later approval, but not once the Senate is actually in session.

US Attorney General, Eric Holder, received letters from Senators Jeff Sessions, Tom Coburn, Orin Hatch, John Cornyn, and others, all protesting this unconstitutional action by President Obama.

Defense of Marriage Act Fiasco

President Obama created another Constitutional crisis when he instructed the Department of Justice to no longer uphold the Defense of Marriage Act. In doing so, he also declared that it was unconstitutional. This overturned a prior law voted into legal existence in 1996 by a Republican dominated Senate and House and signed by then Democrat President Bill Clinton. DOMA had allowed states to refuse to recognize same sex marriages and defined the sanctity of marriage as a legal union between a man and a woman. Thanks to the President, such a concept will no longer be coveted by lawmakers.

According to Republican presidential hopeful, Herman Cain, Obama's interference with the Defense of Marriage Act should have brought about impeachment proceedings against the President. This very subversion of American Judeo Christian heritage is what would lead to a future rift in California's Proposition 8 controversy in months to come as Vaughn Walker, a gay, federal, activist, judge was assigned to the case to render a leftist decision over the statewide referendum.

Healthcare Reform Debacle

When President Obama introduced his urgent agenda to revamp the health care system in America, he invoked yet another Constitutional crisis. Despite economic evidence produced by the CBO that costs would far exceed original estimates by astronomical margins, Obama proceeded with his national health care reform agenda. Even with cost feasibility in question, by February 2010 with 14 million Americans out of work and 9% unemployment, it appeared that the enactment of Obamacare had further worsened the US labor market.

Despite US District Court Judge Roger Vinson's decision to deem health care reform to be null and void in absence of a severability clause, President Obama continued to stubbornly carry on with implementation of the original plan in defiance of the court. This move characterizes the President's rigid ideological indifference to US law and Constitutional heritage as he has demonstrated time and again. Health care reform has been declared void, yet the Obama administration continues as though there were no such ruling. This is the definition of lawlessness.

The question of "Individual Mandate" is but one of many Constitutional arguments surrounding health care reform. Plaintiffs have argued that the government does not have justifiable mandate with which to authorize forced purchase of insurance by those hired by employers per the Constitutional provisions of the Commerce Clause citing the burdensome regulation of inactivity.

Even in the state of Virginia where Attorney General, Ken Cuccinelli, filed a lawsuit against Obamacare in federal court the very day it was enacted. Virginia Governor, Bob McDonnell, signed the health care bill into law anyway. Yet, while Judge Hudson allowed the lawsuit against Obamacare to continue and ultimately strike down the national health care reform act, Judges Diana Gribbon Motz, James Wynn, and Andre Davis ruled against the state of Virginia's right to nullify federal law in protection of its citizens against the federal government.

It is clear that the insistence of President Obama to pursue his stubborn and indifferent agenda of opposed ideology against traditional American values has created subterfuge and costly litigation among state and federal courts. These legal arguments are all over the Constitutional interpretation of state's rights, the power of the federal government to dictate immense national programs of compulsory compliance, and individual rights of American citizens.

Imposing Foreign Laws Upon The States

Despite a voter approved state amendment in Oklahoma to ban the practice of Sharia Law in Oklahoma, the Obama administration once again violated Constitutional protocol and intervened. With 70% of Oklahoma voters indicating they did not want any law aside from state and Constitutional law practiced in Oklahoma, naming Sharia Law as an example of a law of nations or cultural law of a foreign country that should not be recognized, the federal government interfered anyway. In violation of Article 1 Section 10, an activist federal judge was appointed by the Obama administration, to slap an injunction against the state amendment which in essence only upholds Constitutional law already in place. Article 1 Section 10 clearly proclaims that no state shall enter into a foreign treaty or contract. Another appellate court recently upheld the injunction demonstrating President Obama's flagrant disregard for enforcement of Constitutional law among the states themselves.

Allowing Foreign Nations To Sue US States?

In opposition to the 11th amendment of the US Constitution, which allows immunity of all US states to foreign law, Attorney General, Eric Holder joined such foreign nations as Mexico, Brazil, Costa Rica, Chile, Nicaragua, Dominican Republic, Uruguay, Guatemala, and others in lawsuits over immigration. States sharing an international border with Mexico such as Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas have experienced violent crime, drug traffic, and illegal immigration, but are being allowed suffer litigation from foreign countries responsible for large illegal populations now living undocumented in the US. Instead of protecting state's rights, the federal government is encouraging the unconstitutional wrath of foreign nations upon the US zone interior.

Penalizing US States For Enforcing Federal Law

As state governments and sheriff's departments struggle to uphold federal immigration laws in an effort to protect their citizens, Eric Holder and the DOJ have done everything possible to discourage the protection of the US border. Releasing illegal immigrants from custody, suing state governments for upholding the law, and legally harassing county sheriffs such as Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County, Arizona with frivolous allegations of racial profiling; Eric Holder stifles lawful prosecution with partisan politics. One of the fundamental precepts of our US Constitution is the defense of our borders and protection of US citizens by the federal government, yet President Obama has seen fit to make jokes in his speeches over the issue as state residents die thanks to Mexican drug cartel activity.

A Reckless Presidency

These are not all of the Constitutional crises that have been created by the Obama administration. It is clear that our President is unconcerned with the safety of US citizens in his bold challenge to recruit more Democratic votes from a large, undocumented population, that violates US immigration law. It is clear that the President does not mind increasing government spending by creating the cause of litigation between state and federal government as the question of constitutionality is argued by leftist activist appointed judges and those who interpret the law without a partisan agenda.

This is the manner in which many countries the world over are subverted into falling into the depths of socialism when their laws are disputed and a war is waged from within. President Obama wages that war from within, creating subterfuge, ideological division, and the out of control spending that goes with it as America teeters under a philosophical attack by Democrat leadership in the Obama administration against, not only our Constitution, but the American heritage.