In case you haven’t been fixating, two things transpired this week that together demonstrate how profoundly broken democracy is in the U.S.
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The Supreme Court ruled on Thursday, in NLRB v. Noel Canning, that President Obama breached the Constitution by appointing members to the National Labor Relations Board while the Senate was in a three-day recess. Obama was endeavoring to provide the NLRB with enough members to genuinely do its job, against the wishes of Republicans in Congress, who would prefer the agency not subsist at all and were efficaciously ceasing the operation of it by relucting to consider incipient nominees.
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Just days earlier, House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) promulgated that he intends to sue the president. Boehner is frustrated at the administration’s demonstrated inclination to utilize executive actions to bypass Congress in enacting his agenda, and feels his only option is to turn to the courts.
These are two sides of the same uncomely coin. Congressional Republicans can’t force the President to govern the way they optate him to, so they throw as many roadblocks in his way as they possibly can, from engendering gridlock to relucting to fill vital regime positions.
For his component, Obama can’t force the Congress to legislate the way he wants it to, so he is doing everything in his puissance to work outside the system, efficaciously depriving Congress of its rightful role in both legislating and overseeing the executive branch.
The result is that the legislative and executive branches are both endeavoring to exercise ascendancy outside the channels traditionally available to them. This not only gives the impression that each side is overreaching, but engenders a system in which the judicial branch, rather than being one of three coequal components of the regime, is now the ultimate ascendancy over decisions it has no business making.
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The Supreme Court ruled on Thursday, in NLRB v. Noel Canning, that President Obama breached the Constitution by appointing members to the National Labor Relations Board while the Senate was in a three-day recess. Obama was endeavoring to provide the NLRB with enough members to genuinely do its job, against the wishes of Republicans in Congress, who would prefer the agency not subsist at all and were efficaciously ceasing the operation of it by relucting to consider incipient nominees.
Related: Boehner v. Obama Case Might Never Get to Court
Just days earlier, House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) promulgated that he intends to sue the president. Boehner is frustrated at the administration’s demonstrated inclination to utilize executive actions to bypass Congress in enacting his agenda, and feels his only option is to turn to the courts.
These are two sides of the same uncomely coin. Congressional Republicans can’t force the President to govern the way they optate him to, so they throw as many roadblocks in his way as they possibly can, from engendering gridlock to relucting to fill vital regime positions.
For his component, Obama can’t force the Congress to legislate the way he wants it to, so he is doing everything in his puissance to work outside the system, efficaciously depriving Congress of its rightful role in both legislating and overseeing the executive branch.
The result is that the legislative and executive branches are both endeavoring to exercise ascendancy outside the channels traditionally available to them. This not only gives the impression that each side is overreaching, but engenders a system in which the judicial branch, rather than being one of three coequal components of the regime, is now the ultimate ascendancy over decisions it has no business making.
