Should We Sue House Speaker John Boehner & Republican Members of the House?
The Republican members of the House have decided to hire outside counsel to defend DOMA. Can we, should we sue them to insure that they do not use tax payer money to do so? Since this is being done outside the budgetary process and without the approval of the Senate, is it legal? Is it “Constitutional”?
It seems to me to be out of the jurisdiction of the House. The House proposes a budget, the Senate must approve or amend it and then they must both agree. The President then either signs or vetoes it.
It is the responsibility of the Executive Branch, not the House to defend laws. When the Executive branch decides such a defense is indefensible, there is no legal means for the House to do so separately. They can if they want, vote to start impeachment proceedings.
Anyone want to join me on this and see what our legal rights are?
I smell gamesmanship here between Speaker Boehner and Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi. Nancy, as you probably know, serves at the behest of the LGBT Community. You are correct in saying that the Executive (Solicitor’s General)is actually required to “make an effort” to defend all laws the President signs in the first instance of a constitutional challenge.
The case in defense of DOMA 1996 is Windsor V United States and has seen a lot of hurry-up and wait tactics by the Bush and Obama administrations and is getting close to it’s fruition. This is why Obama is dropping the case. It sets off a chain of other side bar action to challenge the DOJ/ SGO’s “right” to drop the defense. John Boehner is just seeking to drive the nail thru the Windsor v US into the Whitehouse front door to get fist pumps from the Tea Party (mostly because he fears these folks’ uncanny ability to marshall his own GOP forces against him and his mainstraem pals)
The “sending the tab to Nancy is to start the conversation of how much taxpayer money has been spent alreadu on something the Whitehouse is now saying “Oh…nevermind
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It looks like he (the RNC) plans to make this a concrete first stone in the presidential GOP wall of voodoo to discredit Obama and his recent talking points on truly wanting to reform the budgetary process and reign in spending.
Two birds with one stone…Wasteful spending on defense of a 5 year long challenge only to piss all that money away, and pander to those crazy but popular right wingers (the Tea Party)
Should be fun to watch. The law firm Johnny just retained quit on him because they themselves have same sex benefits and perquisits (sp?) for their own employees—that would be an embarrassing sound byte, nah? :love:
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Allah,
I did a blog about this. How can the Republicans fight so hard to cut back spending and debt. Yet, turn around and spend our tax money and something stupid like this…
I did not realize the possibilities of us being able to sue the Republicans. That is a nice twist to it and now, I am curious to know if we can do it…
I’m curious to see how much they end up spending on it. How much does something like that even cost anyway?
It’s funny to see them doing this after all the messages they left on my answering machine back in Oct. and Nov. about “The wasteful spending in Washington”.
I am surprised that none of the LBGT folks have not shown up yet. They should have been among the first.
Dumb question here…..
What is DOMA?