Friday, December 6, 2013

Turley: Obama's "Become The Very Danger The Constitution Was Designed To Avoid"



Turley: Obama's "Become The Very Danger The Constitution Was Designed To Avoid"
REP. BOB GOODLATTE (R-VA): Professor Turley, the constitution, the system of separated powers is not simply about stopping one branch of government from usurping another. It's about protecting the liberty of Americans from the dangers of concentrated government power. How does the president's unilateral modification of act of Congress affect both the balance of power between the political branches and the liberty interests of the American people?

JONATHAN TURLEY: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The danger is quite severe. The problem with what the president is doing is that he's not simply posing a danger to the constitutional system. He's becoming the very danger the Constitution was designed to avoid. That is the concentration of power in every single branch.

This Newtonian orbit that the three branches exist in is a delicate one but it is designed to prevent this type of concentration. There is two trends going on which should be of equal concern to all members of Congress. One is that we have had the radical expansion of presidential powers under both President Bush and President Obama. We have what many once called an imperial presidency model of largely unchecked authority. And with that trend we also have the continued rise of this fourth branch. We have agencies that are quite large that issue regulations. The Supreme Court said recently that agencies could actually define their own or interpret their own jurisdiction. (House hearing, December 3, 2013)

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Samuel Anthony Alito Jr. is a justice for the U.S. Supreme Court, and a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society.

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Ruth Bader Ginsburg is a justice for the U.S. Supreme Court, and a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society.
Anthony M. Kennedy is a justice for the U.S. Supreme Court, and a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society.
William Howard Taft was the chief justice for the U.S. Supreme Court, and a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society.
Potter Stewart was a justice for the U.S. Supreme Court, and a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society.
John Paul Stevens was a justice for the U.S. Supreme Court, and a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society.
Harry A. Blackmun was a justice for the U.S. Supreme Court, and a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society.
David Hackett Souter is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, and was a justice for the U.S. Supreme Court.
George H.W. Bush is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, a member of the Burning Tree Club, a chairman emeritus for the National Constitution Center, a member of the Alfalfa Club, and a member of the Bohemian Club.
John A. Boehner is a member of the Burning Tree Club, and the speaker for the U.S. House of Representatives.
Warren Burger was a member of the Burning Tree Club, and a justice for the U.S. Supreme Court.
Antonin Scalia is a member of the Burning Tree Club, and a justice for the U.S. Supreme Court.
Sandra Day O'Connor is a trustee at the National Constitution Center, the president of the Alfalfa Club, and was an associate justice for the U.S. Supreme Court.
National Constitution Center (Past Research)
Monday, December 2, 2013
Belizean_Grove is the equivalent to the male-only social group, the Bohemian Club.
Sonia Sotomayor was a member of the Belizean Grove, is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, and a justice for the U.S. Supreme Court.
Thurgood Marshall was a justice for the U.S. Supreme Court, Elena Kagan & Cass R. Sunstein were his clerks, and the founder of the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund.
Elena Kagan was Thurgood Marshall’s clerk, the solicitor general for the Barack Obama administration, is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, and a justice for the U.S. Supreme Court.
Cass R. Sunstein was Thurgood Marshall’s clerk, is married to Samantha Power’s, and a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution (think tank).
Samantha Power is married to Cass R. Sunstein, the United Nations U.S. ambassador for the Barack Obama administration, was a director at the International Center for Transitional Justice, a director at the International Rescue Committee, and a board member for the International Crisis Group.
Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for the International Rescue Committee, the Brookings Institution (think tank), and NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund.
George Soros is a board member for the International Crisis Group, and the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.
Cyrus F. Freidheim Jr. is an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), and a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
Commercial Club of Chicago, Members Directory
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Valerie B. Jarrett is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago, the senior adviser for the Barack Obama administration, and her great uncle is Vernon E. Jordan Jr.
Vernon E. Jordan Jr. is Valerie B. Jarrett’s great uncle, an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), a senior director at the and NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, a director at the American Friends of Bilderberg (think tank), the president emeritus for the Robert Trent Jones Golf Club (Gainesville, VA), and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).
John G. Roberts Jr. is an honorary member of the Robert Trent Jones Golf Club (Gainesville, VA), is the chief justice for the U.S. Supreme Court, and the chancellor for the Smithsonian Institution.
David M. Rubenstein is a regent at the Smithsonian Institution, and a trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank).
Shirley Ann Jackson is a regent at the Smithsonian Institution, and a trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank).
Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Brookings Institution (think tank).
George Soros is the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society, and the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations.
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American Constitution Society (Past Research)
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Barack Obama was Laurence Tribe’s research assistants, and an intern at Sidley Austin LLP.
Michelle Obama was a lawyer at Sidley Austin LLP.
R. Eden Martin is counsel at Sidley Austin LLP, and the president of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
Commercial Club of Chicago, Members Directory
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Newton N. Minow is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago, a senior counsel at Sidley Austin LLP, and his daughter is Martha L. Minow.
Martha L. Minow is Newton N. Minow’s daughter, the dean for Harvard Law School, Barack Obama was her student, and was a clerk for Thurgood Marshall.
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Minow, the dean of Harvard Law School, is the daughter of Newton Minow, the former chair of the Federal Communications Commission, who is senior counsel at Chicago's Sidley Austin. When Obama was at Harvard Law School, Minow recommended that Sidley hire him for a summer job.
Thurgood Marshall’s clerk was Martha L. Minow, the founder of the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, and a justice for the U.S. Supreme Court.


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