Expect to see this reported on the major networks other than FoxNews? Don’t hold your breath. If they mention it at all, it will be to deride the efforts of these lawmakers who are fighting to uphold the quaint notion of “rule of law.” When the media is complicit with a President who feels no need whatsoever to follow the laws he himself has shoved down our throats, we not only have lawlessness, but no accountability at any level. From the Washington Times:
Thirty-eight Republican lawmakers, including such unlikely bedfellows as John McCain of Arizona and Ted Cruz of Texas, have joined to support a lawsuit challenging the legality of the Affordable Care Act and accusing the president of repeatedly ignoring the law he signed for political reasons.
The lawmakers have signed onto a legal brief in support of a lawsuit filed by Sen. Ron Johnson, the Wisconsin Republican who is asking a federal court to overturn Obamacare’s special treatment for members of Congress and their staffs.
“The unlawful executive action at issue in this case is not an isolated incident,” the brief states. “Rather, it is part of an ongoing campaign by the executive branch to rewrite the Affordable Care Act on a wholesale basis.”
The brief contends that, if left unchecked, the administration’s campaign “threatens to subvert the most basic precept of our system of government.”
“The president of the United States is constitutionally obligated to take care that the law be faithfully executed; he does not have the power to modify or ignore laws that have been duly enacted by Congress and that he believes are constitutional,” the friend-of-the-court brief states. read more here