Tuesday, April 3, 2012

Obama Accused of Trying to 'Intimidate' Supreme Court by Texas Congressman!

MyFox Boston ^ | 04/03/2012
WASHINGTON -- Texas Republican congressman Lamar Smith on Monday suggested that President Barack Obama's remarks about health care at a Rose Garden press conference came close to intimidation of the Supreme Court.
 
"I am very disappointed by our President," Smith told FOX News Radio. "That comes very close to trying to intimidate the Supreme Court of the United States and I'm not sure that's appropriate," he added.
 
Earlier in the day at a press conference with Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Mexican President Felipe Calderon, Obama was asked about the consequences of the court ruling that his health care law was unconstitutional.
"Ultimately, I'm 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," Obama said.
 
The president added, "I'd like to 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."
 
Last week, the Supreme Court heard three days of oral arguments over the constitutionality of the law. The court is expected to deliver its ruling in late June. Smith said the nine justices should be able to reach a conclusion without the "interference" of the president.
 
"It is not unprecedented at all for the Supreme Court to declare a law unconstitutional, they do that on a regular basis so it's not unprecedented at all," Smith told FOX Radio. "What is unprecedented is for the President of the United States trying to intimidate the Supreme Court.

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