A three-judge panel of the Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals escalated the increasingly public battle between President Barack Obama and the judiciary on Tuesday, ordering the Department of Justice to write and submit a three-page, single-spaced letter by noon on Thursday explaining whether the administration acknowledges that the courts have the right to overturn federal laws.
The order, CBS News reported, follows the president’s historically inaccurate claim Monday that a Supreme Court decision striking down the so-called “individual mandate” in his health care overhaul law “would be an unprecedented, extraordinary step of overturning a law that was passed by a strong majority of a democratically-elected Congress.” Obama suggested that because of this, the Supreme Court would opt not to overturn the law.
via dailycaller.com
Of course I didn't graduate from Harvard Law School, nor have I taught Constitutional Law at the University of Chicago Law School, but I have taken a few Constitutional Law courses in my career as a political scientist, and have taught my American Government students about "Marbury vs. Madison" and the concept of judicial review. This is really kind of amusing, and the President has really stepped in it with his statements, in my opinion.
