Congressions tricks

The House of Representatives of the US Congress voted to file a claim to Barack Obama

Congressions are charged with Barack Obama by excess of the powers of the head of the executive branch and the invasion of the competence of the legislative body. The Democrats called this demarche of the Republicans "politicism" and "election stunt".

The day before the August holidays, the lower house of Congress approved the lawsuit against Barack Obama, accusing him of a one -sided, preferential and selective execution of the laws that the deputies adopted and which the president himself approved in their entirety. The lawsuit is intended to warn further usurping of the power of power by the head of the executive branch, supporters of measures say. 225 parliamentarians voted for initiating the case, 201 - against. None of the Democrats supported the resolution introduced by the Republicans. Five Republicans dissolved from the one -party members and voted at the same time with the Democrats, and all five, oddly enough, conservative policies.

- These five legislators consider it insufficient to achieve through the federal court the implementation by the president of the signed laws. They want to act extra-court and to impeachment in the Senate, ”said Tara Gelfman, professor of the Faculty of Law of the University of Syracuse in the state of New York.

"This undertaking is not worth a damned egg and will result in only a meaningless waste of taxpayers," the Democrats say. "And what, according to our opponents, would there be a reasonable fee for the preservation of the system of checks and counterweights provided for by the Constitution?" - the Republicans are overwhelmed. Reports on expenses for private lawyers, if the parties consider it necessary to hire them, are announced in such cases publicly every three months.

According to the leadership of the Democratic Party, the Republicans do not promise to stop at this lawsuit and, quite possibly, it serves only as a bridgehead for the upcoming attempt to terminate the powers of President Obama ahead of schedule. Zhupel of impeachment, Republicans respond, are used by democrats for the sake of mobilizing their electorate in the upcoming elections to Congress and attracting donations to the election campaign. Democrats attribute the same selfish motives to the leadership of the Republican faction in the lower house, which made the decision to judge the president. By the way, two appeals to the financial sponsors of the Democrats came out on Wednesday from Congress: one - even during the debate, the second - a few minutes after their completion.

“The Republican statements of the Republicans list only the alleged violations of Obama articles on the reform of the medical insurance system ,” says Tara Gelfman. - This is, in particular, whether Obama has come beyond the borders of his competence, having twice postponing the entry into force of the position of Bill, obliging owners of enterprises with 50 employees or more, busy at least 30 hours a week, provide their workers with medical insurance or pay a fine. The initial rule was to earn this year. But now, in relation to large enterprises with a regular number of 100 employees or more, it will begin to operate next year, and in relation to medium -sized enterprises with 50 to 99 employees, only in 2016. Thus, according to the plaintiffs, Obama arbitrarily rewrote the most important legislative act approved by Congress. The Republicans circulated that in addition to the electoral execution of this Bill, the Republicans will impose Obama adopted unilaterally, without the consultations with Congress, which are provided for by the relevant law, the decision to exchange the five Taliban leaders for one American soldier. Or the unlawful, according to the Republicans, blocking the White House of Deportation of a part of illegal migrants - adolescents from Central America. It seems to me that the decision to make this unprecedented business was narrowly politically correct.

- And what exactly does this lawsuit do unprecedented?

- The claims against the president come from the lower house of Congress not often, in the entire history of America there were, perhaps, from the strength of fifteen to twenty. And so far there was not a single case where the House of Representatives as such acted as the plaintiff. Previously, these have always been individual deputies or groups of deputies. For example, several congressmen acquired a lawsuit by Bush-Sr. for violations of the law on the powers of the head of state in wartime, which prescribes the president to ask the sanction of the legislature to use the American army in

The claims against the president come from the lower house of Congress not often, in the entire history of America there were, perhaps, from the strength of fifteen to twenty. And so far there was not a single case where the House of Representatives as such acted as the plaintiff

Armed conflicts after no more than 60 days from the beginning of hostilities. The congressmen did not excite this matter during, but on the eve of the first war against Saddam Hussein, explaining this by the fact that it was absolutely impossible to expel the Iraqi army from Kuwait in 60 days. The court did not accept the claim for consideration, stating that he was not in his competence, because, firstly, he was purely hypothetical-the United States was not at war with Iraq at that time. And, secondly, and this is very important in the context of the case against Obama we are talking about-the plaintiffs expressed only their subjective opinion, and not the position of the House of Representatives as a whole.

According to Tara Gelfman, for this reason all these claims were rejected by federal courts, because the suppliers could not prove that the president prevented the functions of the lower house as an institution of government by his action or inaction. The question that will now face a federal court against Obama is whether the majority of the Lower Chamber is authorized to judge the president on behalf of the entire bicameral congress as an institution of government, whose work the president, allegedly, blocked his whimsical law enforcement? According to the university professor Syracuse Tara Gelfman, the plaintiffs have legal clues to prove that they can represent the entire congress.

Republicans did not specify the deadlines for filing a claim. The trial, including the cassation stage, is more likely to drag out for several years, and may not end before Obama leaves the White House in January 2017.