President Barack Obama has all but declared war on the United States Supreme Court.
Like most U.S. presidents who chafe under the high court’s authority to rule on their agendas, Obama is unhappy with the court’s failure to recognize the divinity of his proposals, if not that of his personhood.
The president’s Equal Employment Opportunity Commission was correctly overruled in a case involving religious freedom. The court clearly stated that the First Amendment protects churches in their decisions regarding workers with religious duties. The exception had already been supported by lower courts and many states.
Soon the issue before the court will be Obama’s healthcare program, rammed through Congress despite the widespread opinion that it was an opening to national socialized medicine. A ruling is expected by July. The question is whether the Constitution’s Commerce Clause can be stretched to reach into everyone’s pocketbook with the Obamacare mandate.
The notorious failings of Britain’s socialized medicine have not failed to diminish the hopes and plans of our own fans of socialized everything – of a government so big and so powerful that nothing can resist its meddlesome reach.
That is a lesson Obama has yet to learn. If he doesn’t learn his lesson by July, he will certainly learn it in November.
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