{"id":11303,"date":"2012-04-04T05:30:16","date_gmt":"2012-04-04T09:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geneveith.com\/?p=11303"},"modified":"2012-04-04T05:30:16","modified_gmt":"2012-04-04T09:30:16","slug":"obama-forgets-marbury-v-madison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/2012\/04\/obama-forgets-marbury-v-madison\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama forgets Marbury v. Madison"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>It\u2019s refreshing to see Democrats worried about an \u201cactivist\u201d court, since they haven\u2019t complained about justices \u201clegislating from the bench\u201d when they advance their pet issues.\u00a0 But President Obama\u2019s recent rants against the prospect of the Supreme Court striking down Obamacare when it hasn\u2019t even happened yet\u2013unless someone leaked their secret vote\u2013is strangely oblivious to what the Supreme Court does <em>all the time<\/em>.\u00a0 From a <em>Wall Street Journal<\/em> editorial:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>President Obama is a former president of the Harvard Law Review and famously taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago. But did he somehow not teach the historic case of Marbury v. Madison?<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s a fair question after Mr. Obama\u2019s astonishing remarks on Monday at the White House when he ruminated for the first time in public on the Supreme Court\u2019s recent ObamaCare deliberations. \u201cI\u2019m 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,\u201d he declared.<\/p>\n<div id=\"premium-content\">\nPresidents are paid to be confident about their own laws, but what\u2019s up with that \u201cunprecedented\u201d? In Marbury in 1803, Chief Justice John Marshall laid down the doctrine of judicial review. In the 209 years since, the Supreme Court has invalidated part or all of countless laws on grounds that they violated the Constitution. All of those laws were passed by a \u201cdemocratically elected\u201d legislature of some kind, either Congress or in one of the states. And no doubt many of them were passed by \u201cstrong\u201d majorities.\n<p>As it happens, probably stronger majorities than passed the Affordable Care Act. Readers may recall that the law was dragooned through a reluctant Senate without a single GOP vote and barely the 60 votes needed to break a filibuster. Despite a huge Democratic majority in the House, it passed by only 219-212.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052702304023504577320013259347408.html?mod=ITP_opinion_2\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Review &amp; Outlook: Obama vs. Marbury v. Madison \u2013 WSJ.com<\/a>.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/blockquote><\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s refreshing to see Democrats worried about an \u201cactivist\u201d court, since they haven\u2019t complained about justices \u201clegislating from the bench\u201d when they advance their pet issues.\u00a0 But President Obama\u2019s recent rants against the prospect of the Supreme Court striking down Obamacare when it hasn\u2019t even happened yet\u2013unless someone leaked their secret vote\u2013is strangely oblivious to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1281,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,26],"tags":[1614,2139],"class_list":["post-11303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-law","tag-obamacare","tag-supreme-court"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Obama forgets Marbury v. 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