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Current Events => Politics => Topic started by: libertybele on May 27, 2015, 08:59:13 AM
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It is all catching up with him, but will he eventually be held responsible or accountable?
President Obama’s legacy is increasingly in legal jeopardy
President Obama's second-term agenda, it seems, is in the hands of the courts.
Same-sex marriage. Obamacare. Climate change. And now immigration. And in many cases, there is significant doubt about whether his signature initiatives will stand legal scrutiny.
The latest blow to Obama's second-term plans came Tuesday when a federal appeals court in New Orleans denied the administration's request to move forward with implementing his expanded executive action on immigration to defer deportation for millions of undocumented immigrants...
Same-sex marriage
Obama is the first American president to support same-sex marriage -- though his public evolution apparently was slower than his personal one. Before he backed gay marriage, he called for repealing the Defense of Marriage Act. And since, he has ordered federal agencies to recognize same-sex marriages and partnerships like any other married couple.
But the Supreme Court could have the final say on gay marriage's place in America when it hands down a high-profile decision in the next month on whether states that ban gay marriage violate a couple's constitutional right. The Supreme Court went Obama's way in 2013 when it allowed the federal government to recognize legally married same-sex couples...
...If the court rules in King v. Burwell that those subsidies are unconstitutional, upwards of 8 million people in 36 states could lose their subsidies. It would undo a key part to the Affordable Care Act -- and possibly unravel the whole law...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2015/05/26/obama-courts/
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It's more than in legal jeopardy...
The newspaper The Hill reports that the mayor of Ferguson, James Knowles III, charged on Sunday that violent protesters in his community are arriving from out of town and getting paid.
It’s not what you would call “grass roots†unrest.
“They’ve been openly raising money and distributing money for some time,†Knowles told radio host John Catsimatidis on “The Cats Roundtable†on AM 970 in New York.
“The mainstream media continues mostly to ignore this fact,†he added.
“It’s unbelievable what we’ve seen.â€
Knowles recalled on Sunday how his city’s residents were puzzled last year by a flood of unfamiliar faces.
Ferguson police were especially troubled, he added, given they were arresting scores of citizens from outside their jurisdiction.
“When this all started back in August…many of us who live here…noticed that there were a lot of people from outside,†Knowles said.
“Only a handful were even from Ferguson,†he said.
“And so we started asking the question:
Where are these people coming from, and who’s supporting this?â€
“And as the months have played out, we’ve seen that MoveOn.org, Organization of Black Struggle – national groups have openly and surreptitiously funded a lot of what’s been going on,†Knowles said.
The Ferguson mayor added that negative attention over Brown’s death even attracted demonstrators from overseas.
“People have come from all over the world and gotten arrested during this unrest,†Knowles said.
Weasel Zippers relayed this link and reminded its readers that protesters have complained on Twitter about not getting paid (with the hashtag "#Cutthecheck") and exposed a list of payments to activists.
There's nothing illegal about this.
It's just reckless for the media to portray protests as some sort of local, organic movement working only on emotion.
full article...
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tim-graham/2015/05/31/ferguson-mayor-media-ignoring-how-ferguson-protesters-arent-local#sthash.5UWbvMzb.dpuf
(http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tim-graham/2015/05/31/ferguson-mayor-media-ignoring-how-ferguson-protesters-arent-local#sthash.5UWbvMzb.dpuf)
It's in historical and legacy jeopardy.
Hopefully in criminal jeopardy too.