The Supreme Court Versus Obama
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The Supreme Court Versus Obama
Wednesday, February 24
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton in a spirited talk on February 16 said this: “Justice Scalia’s passing means the court hangs in the balance. Now the Republicans say they’ll reject anyone President Obama nominates, no matter how qualified. Some are even saying he doesn’t have the right to nominate anyone! As if somehow he’s not the real president.”
Clinton’s barbed assault on the GOP for rejecting out of hand a high court nominee by President Obama before he even nominated a nominee told much about the sometimes open, sometimes subtle war that the GOP and conservatives have waged against the Obama Administration. And the Supreme Court has been at the center of this high stakes battle. The death of conservative SCOTUS judge Antonin Scalia dramatically rammed the war between Obama and the court into the headlines.
Author and Political Analyst Earl Ofari Hutchinson in his new Ebook, The Supreme Court Versus Obama: The Court’s Relentless War Against the Obama Administration takes the reader behind the battle lines in the ongoing fight between the court and Obama. He details how the court has become a wrecking ball against virtually all of Obama’s initiatives and legislative actions that wind up before the court.
Hutchinson notes that the hyper-passion of conservatives to thwart Obama is no accident. The conservative controlled court’s open war against Obama,” says Hutchinson, “is driven by a blatant mix of politics, ideology, and at times seemingly personal vindictiveness.
Hutchinson is emphatic about what’s at stake in the war between the High Court and Obama. “The death of Scalia came just months before the High Court was scheduled to decide on a rash of crucial cases, that include: affirmative-action, Voting Rights Act, abortion, contraceptive coverage, immigration, and union fees. The Obama administration took diametric supportive positions in upholding these cases. Unfavorable rulings to Obama on any or all of these cases would have been in keeping with the court’s determined reversal of what prior administrations have gotten out of the court; and that’s more wins than losses.”
There also has been a hard personal edge to the implacable animosity of the court’s conservative’s to Obama. “Scalia, Alito and Thomas didn’t even bother to attend most of Obama’s State of the Union addresses. They skipped the diplomacy and minced no words in telling why,” Hutchinson observes, ” To Scalia ‘it was a childish spectacle,’ to Thomas it was too ‘partisan’ and it made him very ‘uncomfortable’ to sit through it; and to Alito, he said sitting there made him feel like ‘the proverbial potted plant’.”
Hutchinson in The Supreme Court Versus Obama: The Court’s Relentless War Against the Obama Administration takes an in-depth look at how these issues collide and have riveted public attention and debate both within and without the court. He bolsters this with hard facts and numbers to underscore the court’s unyielding obstructionism to the Obama agenda
“In fact, the record of past presidents shows that they have gotten much of what they want from the court on cases they have a vital stake in. The government’s chief representative before the court, the solicitor general, has traditionally won roughly 70 percent of its cases in the Supreme Court,” says Hutchinson,” The track record is so good that the solicitor general has been tagged as the “10th justice.” This changed with Obama. The losses before the court piled up during his nearly eight years in the White House.”
Hutchinson is very pointed on how the court battles with Obama will get even more heated. “Now with the death of Scalia, the nomination by Obama of his third Supreme Court justice, all set against the backdrop of the 2016 battle for the White House, the Supreme Court is again the focal point of the high intensity war between Obama and the GOP, “Hutchinson says, ” This is a war that the conservatives on the court showed that they are more than willing to wage against Obama during every year of his tenure in the White House. This is a war that will not abate.”
The Supreme Court Versus Obama: The Court’s Relentless War Against the Obama Administration is a must read to know and understand why the High Court is not the name of the game in the fierce and on-going battles over law and public policy between Obama and the High Court.
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