Dictators are not "effectively restricted" by ... LAWS

dictator  — n.   a ruler who is not effectively restricted by a constitution, laws, recognized opposition, etc.

 

Maybe we should start calling him MuBarack Obama?

This is outrageous:

The Obama administration announced Wednesday that it has pulled its legal support for the federal Defense of Marriage Act, stating that the law fails to meet constitutional scrutiny standards and therefore the administration is under no obligation to defend it.

Attorney General Eric H. Holder, Jr. said in a statement released Wednesday that President Obama has decided that his administration “will cease defense of Section 3,” which states that marriage is between one man and one woman.

“[T]he President has concluded that given a number of factors, including a documented history of discrimination, classifications based on sexual orientation should be subject to a more heightened standard of scrutiny,” Mr. Holder said.

“The President has also concluded that Section 3 of DOMA, as applied to legally married same-sex couples, fails to meet that standard and is therefore unconstitutional.  Given that conclusion, the President has instructed the Department not to defend the statute in such cases. I fully concur with the President’s determination.”

 

Ah, the Great Uniter strikes again.  When the entire Middle East (except the Jewish state) is in meltdown, Iranian warships are cruising the Mediterranean, gas prices are skyrocketing, and the U.S. is on the verge of a civil war over 

 

Defense of Marriage Act is the short title of a federal law of the United States passed on September 21, 1996 as Public Law No. 104-199, 110 Stat. 2419. Its provisions are codfied at 1 U.S.C. § 7 and 28 U.S.C. § 1738C.

Under the law, also known as DOMA, no state (or other political subdivision within the United States) needs to treat as a marriage a same-sex relationship considered a marriage in another state (DOMA, Section 2); the federal government defines marriage as a legal union between one man and one woman (DOMA, Section 3).

The bill was passed by Congress by a vote of 85–14 in the Senate^[1] and a vote of 342–67 in the House of Representatives,^[2] and was signed into law by President Bill Clinton on September 21, 1996.

References

1. ^ "On Passage of the Bill (H.R. 3396)". United States Senate. 1996-09-10. Retrieved 2009-01-18.
2. ^ "Final vote results for roll call 316". United States House of Representatives. 1996-07-12. Retrieved 2009-01-18.

 

 

Comments

[Tom Glennon]

Obama has effectively made the Congress irrelevant, by using his regulatory czars to circumvent the will of the elected representative body to implement his agenda without Congressional authority. He has now announced that he can be the final judge of what laws will be enforced, and what laws will be ignored by this administration. Our judicial system, all the way to the Supreme Court, has now been deemed irrelevant. I am not sure if Mark Levin can continue to call this a "soft tyranny". The flashes of contempt he voiced for the Constitution over the years has now been elevated to official policy. I am going outside with the 9 year old grandson to play catch. At least Obama has not yet changed the rules for baseball.