{"id":32712,"date":"2011-04-25T23:06:41","date_gmt":"2011-04-26T03:06:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/32712\/sue-house-speaker-john-boehner-republican-members-house\/"},"modified":"2011-04-25T23:06:41","modified_gmt":"2011-04-26T03:06:41","slug":"sue-house-speaker-john-boehner-republican-members-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/32712\/sue-house-speaker-john-boehner-republican-members-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Should We Sue House Speaker John Boehner &amp; Republican Members of the House?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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 &#8220;Constitutional&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone want to join me on this and see what our legal rights are?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1428],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32712\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}