- The president’s selective targeting of political opponents for harassment and abuse by the IRS and obstruction and corruption of the resulting investigations
- Fraudulent claim that the Benghazi massacre was caused by a film, willfully misleading Congress and the American people, providing false information to Congress, scapegoating an individual instead of taking responsibility for waging a war under false pretenses and inadequately protecting Americans overseas.
- Unlawfully granting amnesty to categories of illegal immigrants, pressuring states by expensive litigation and the withholding of federal resources to not enforce laws against illegal immigration
- Refusal to enforce border security laws passed by Congress
- Denial of equal protection under the law by the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) racially discriminatory enforcement of federal civil rights law
- Systematic politicization of hiring at Department of Justice
- Systematic stonewalling by Department of Justice and other departments and agencies of Congress
- Investigation of journalists in violation of free speech and contravention of DOJ guidelines, Attorney General’s (AG) misleading testimony regarding the investigation of journalists
- Fast and Furious operation intentionally arming criminals, covered up by the Attorney General’s contemptuous obstruction of a congressional investigation and the President’s specious invocation of executive privilege
- Repeated and continued attacks on the first amendment using DOJ to intimidate reporters, stonewalling access to information, prosecuting reporters who do their jobs, and stifling speech through FCC regulations
- The politicization of investigation and prosecution by DOJ in order to coerce compliance with administration policy, punish critics, appease political supporters, while funding political allies through sue and settle schemes
- Refusal to enforce laws such as DOMA
- Coercing state compliance with Obama administration policy by politicizing enforcement actions and encouraging state attorneys general to abdicate their duty to defend valid state law
- Unilateral changes to Obamacare
- Use of the EPA to regulate into effect legislation that was rejected by the Democratically controlled Congress
- Unilateral amendment and maladministration of other environmental policies like the Clean Air Act
- Contravention of Congressional and Judicial authority through “sue and settle” lawsuits where the government seeks out advocacy groups to sue on issues that dramatically expand regulatory and enforcement authority, allowing the Executive Branch to settle and increase its power. Unilateral amendment on the eve of 2012 election of law mandating notification of impending layoffs
- Unilateral amendment of federal law requiring welfare recipients to work
- Defiance of congressional law and court orders in obstruction Yucca Mountain nuclear waste project
- Unilateral and illegal release of 4 Gitmo prisoners in exchange for Bo Bergdahl
- Making ‘recess appointments’ when Senate was not in recess
- Usurpation of Congress’s war powers in instigating an undeclared, unauthorized war in Libya
- Contempt tor Congress’s constitutional duty to conduct oversight of executive agencies
- Picking winners and losers based on politics
Pity the leadership in the Republican Party has -- in the words of Sarah Palin -- a case of "deflated balls": they refuse to employ the very tools the Framers bequeathed them, whether through cowardice or secret collaboration with these tactics.
Read more at Judicial Watch.
and this only what we Know about.
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Gotta give credit where credit is due: he couldn't have done it without Boehner, Prebus and Romney.
ReplyDeleteHe should never have been allowed to come within 5 miles of the WH, never mind inside of it.
ReplyDeleteHe is the enemy.