The mainstream media is pretending that those suggesting we’ve entered into a constitutional crisis — the current administration has decided it won’t follow a district judge’s ruling and continues to implement ObamaCare, despite its having been declared unconstitutional — are quaint and rather a bit silly. <\/p>\n
They’re wrong. <\/p>\n
I understand that the judiciary is supposed to provide a check on the Executive branch, and that in theory, the Executive is not completely bound by a judicial ruling (the problem with giving the courts too<\/em> much power is that a politicized court leads to a society ruled by deferential philosopher kings, not a true representative democracy). But I haven’t heard the President stand up and say that the court ruling is invalid — and that he therefore refuses to follow it. Because doing so would be open up a huge<\/i> constitutional debate — and force the administration to make the legal<\/i> case publicly for ObamaCare’s constitutionality under the Commerce Clause and under the Necessary and Proper Clause. Which would illustrate that Obama lied about the law not being a tax (as they are now arguing in court) — and that he lied about his having previously believed (when running against Hillary Clinton in the Dem primaries) that such mandates are disallowable by law.<\/p>\n Instead, the Administration is simply ignoring the judge’s ruling. And the mainstream press is, yet again, carrying water for the President. That is, they are complicit in what is a kind of overthrow of our civil society and social compact.<\/p>\n