Neil Munro,The Daily Caller
Even a Yale Law School professor is questioning President Barack Obama’s claim of a legal justification for unilaterally installing Richard Cordray as head of the new finance-sector regulatory bureau.
Obama’s staff say the appointment was based on advice from White House counsel Kathryn Ruemmler,not from the Department of Justice.
But this reliance on Obama’s in-house lawyer marks a “bitter shift” that is reducing the advisory role of the Justice Department’s confirmed appointees,and increasing the role of Obama’s in-house legal counsel,said Bruce Ackerman,a professor at Yale Law,which conservatives have long decried as a hotbed of partisan legal activists.
This legal shift began under President George W. Bush,but Obama has used “other techniques to propel the same shift of power in his direction,” Ackerman wrote The Wall Street Journal on Wednesday.
To curb that shift,he said,the public needs to debate the legal argument for and against Obama’s claimed ability to unilaterally install appointees when the Senate says it is open for business.
“All thoughtful people,Democrat and Republican alike,should insist that Ms. Ruemmler publish her opinion without delay,” wrote Ackerman.
However,White House spokesman Jay Carney has declined to release or even describe Ruemmler’s legal argument,even though few Democratic politicians or academics have defended the administration’s legal claim.
In a brief interview with NPR,Ruemmler claimed that “the way that the Constitution should be interpreted is not through a formalistic or artificial construction but rather a practical,common-sense approach.”
“There are a lot of appointees who have been languishing” without Senate approval,she told NPR….
Who is going to stop Obama from acting like a dictator? This is not even supposed to be possible. Why isn't anyone trying to stop him?
Do you know what I find to be so very disheartening! The fact that we find all of the things that Obama had done. We put it out there that Obama did this or that and he should be fired or removed or burned at the state…Blah Blah blah…. And in the end what happens????
NOTHING! That’s right NOTHING…
Hummm I wonder why that is???
I AGREE! My sentiments exactly.
Yeah,question all ya want,but NO ONE,NO ONE ever does anything about it! I'm so sick of the corrupt Obama,and everyone in Washington stays mum about it. Personally,I think they're all running scared of BO. No one really knows the REAL Obama. His true evil self is beginning to be exposed —a little at a time . He is not what you see:smiling,joking,shaking hands with the people,giving prepared speeches with his TelePrompTer. He's evil personified! America is yet to see the REAL OBAMA emerge when it is too late and he has finally used his executive order to give power to his executive branch and become a dictator.