http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/05/29/1388786/-Republican-judge-ponders-impeachment-as-another-Obamacare-lawsuit-rears-its-ugly-nbsp-head?detail=email
Will it ever end? No. Remember how a year ago House Republicans were all up in arms over President Obama's executive actions on immigration? And how they were talking about impeachment? Remember how Speaker John Boehner mollified them? With a lawsuit against Obama for a completely unrelated executive action—delaying the employer mandate under Obamacare, which was something that they wanted to have happen, anyway, and to use Treasury funds that were not appropriated by Congress to pay for $175 billion in subsidies to Obamacare customers.
It took Boehner three tries to get a lawyer to take the case, and thus it ended up not being filed until November. The first hearing in the District Court for the District of Columbia was heard Thursday, a hearing on the White House's motion to dismiss the case and to determine whether Congress actually had standing to sue. But Judge Rosemary Collyer, a George W. Bush appointee, made it clear that she was far more interested in the substance of the case, and furthermore pretty damned hostile to the president, including at one point pondering whether impeachment might not be an option.
Justice Department attorney Joel McElvain opened his argument by describing the House's objections to the Obamacare rules by calling it an "abstract dispute over the implementation" of federal law, and the House therefore had no standing.
Collyer responded by saying, "You don't really think that." She later added, "This is the problem I have with your brief—it's just not direct, you have to address their arguments." She did acknowledge more than once that she was tougher on the administration's lawyer.
The judge also had pointed questions of the House GOP's attorney, George Washington University Law Professor Jonathan Turley. Turley said that dismissing the lawsuit could limit the legislative branch's ability to combat future executive overreach. "That would mean that there's nothing we could do that would stop them," he said.
Collyer later responded in jest: "What about impeachment, is that an option?" She added, "I don't want to suggest… Don't anybody write that down."
our judicial system has gone the way of the trail of elephant dung from the scotus to lower courts although we have seen a drop in the decisions only favoring right wing agendas. that is why we see so much delay and resistance to Pres.'s judicial and law enforcement appointees the republicans want to keep their people in and ours out it tips the courts in their favor. it also prevents fair and honest decisions that benefit we the people and keeps the ball in their court. voting can cure the situation but only if we do it with our interest in mind. recognize
the crack about nothing they can do to "STOP THEM", from what doing the peoples work for the people??? btw i don't for a minute believe the right wing judge was joking about impeachment she needs to recluse herself from any further litigation she has shown her bias and apparently wears it with pride. so far those that suffer are those that republicans are still trying to yank ACA out from under their feet. republican right wing justice doesn't seem to work for most Americans but than again that is the premise their MO works on.
