The Blaze: Fed Appeals Court to DOJ: You Have Until Thursday to Explain What the President Meant by ‘Unprecedented’ & ‘Unelected Group’

[Patricia M. McBride]

For those who have not heard, the DOJ will comply with the order from Judge Smith.  This should have happened 2 years ago or maybe 3 years ago, but a huge thank you to Judge Jerry Smith of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in Houston, Texas.  May God keep him safe for questioning this administration. After a yes answer to his question to DOJ lawyer Dana Kaersvang, the judge was not satisfied. 

As stated in the article: 

However, despite this “clarification,” Judge Smith was unsatisfied, specifically referencing when President Obama called the judges an “unelected group.”
“That has troubled a number of people who have read it as somehow a challenge to the federal courts or to their authority,” Judge Smith said. “And that’s not a small matter.”

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April 3, 2012

Becket Adams

A federal appeals court has ordered the Justice Department to clarify comments made by the president when he said yesterday that it would be “unprecedented” for the Supreme Court to overturn his signature health care law (“Obamacare”).

“I am confident that this will be upheld because it should be upheld,” President Obama said.

“Ultimately I am confident that the Supreme Court will not take what would be an unprecedented, extraordinary step of overturning a law that was passed by a strong majority of a democratically elected Congress.”

He continued:

And I‘d just remind conservative commentators that for years what we’ve heard is the biggest problem on the bench was judicial activism or a lack of judicial restraint, that an unelected group of people would somehow overturn a duly constituted and passed law.

Well, this is a good example. And I’m pretty confident that this court will recognize that and not take that step.

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