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Bush’s laws will be scrutinized if I become president, Obama says

DENVER - Maybe it’s his background teaching constitutional law.

If elected president, Democratic White House hopeful Barack Obama said one of the first things he wants to do is ensure the constitutionality of all the laws and executive orders passed while Republican President George W. Bush has been in office.

Those that don’t pass muster will be overturned, he said.

During a fund-raiser in Denver, Obama — a former constitutional law professor at the University of Chicago Law School — was asked what he hoped to accomplish during his first 100 days in office.

“I would call my attorney general in and review every single executive order issued by George Bush and overturn those laws or executive decisions that I feel violate the constitution,” said Obama

Other goals for his first 100 days: work out a plan to withdraw troops from Iraq; make progress on alternative energy plans and launch legislation to reform the health care system.
 
“I would call my attorney general in and review every single executive order issued by George Bush and overturn those laws or executive decisions that I feel violate the constitution,” said Obama
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I thought that it was the responsibility of the Supreme Court to judge whether or not a law was constitutional?

Also, how would Obama "overturn" laws that have been passed? What process would he use that wouldn't be unconstitutional?
 
Reba said:
I thought that it was the responsibility of the Supreme Court to judge whether or not a law was constitutional?

Also, how would Obama "overturn" laws that have been passed? What process would he use that wouldn't be unconstitutional?
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Executive Decision overrides everything. New administration can override previous administration's actions. For example - Obama can perhaps repeal Patriot Acts. Heck if he wants - he can issue an Executive Order to repeal Bush's Executive Order. Confusing, I know but that's how it is....
 
jiro123 said:
Executive Decision overrides everything. New administration can override previous administration's actions. For example - Obama can perhaps repeal Patriot Acts. Heck if he wants - he can issue an Executive Order to repeal Bush's Executive Order. Confusing, I know but that's how it is....
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I asked about the laws that Obama said he would overturn. That is, laws that were passed by Congress, and then signed by the President.
 
Reba said:
I thought that it was the responsibility of the Supreme Court to judge whether or not a law was constitutional?

Also, how would Obama "overturn" laws that have been passed? What process would he use that wouldn't be unconstitutional?
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Probably enact laws to mute Bush's laws.

Just what we need in this country.....more useless laws on the books.
 
Reba said:
I asked about the laws that Obama said he would overturn. That is, laws that were passed by Congress, and then signed by the President.
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Patriot Acts, Military Commission Acts, etc.
 
jazzy said:
Will it costs us taxpayers more $$$$$$$?
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well at least this is a justified use of taxpayer's money to investigate those responsibles.... not like Clinton sex scandal
 
Wokamuka said:
You got that right!
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Let's see who I'd like to see in jail or investigated -

Halliburton, Dick Cheney, Blackwater, I.C.E., Oil companies, bunch of politicians, contractors, special interests groups, and anybody who are involved in this war profiteering scheme.
 
jiro123 said:
Let's see who I'd like to see in jail or investigated -

Halliburton, Dick Cheney, Blackwater, I.C.E., Oil companies, bunch of politicians, contractors, special interests groups, and anybody who are involved in this war profiteering scheme.
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i so agree with you... i would love for them to investigate oil companies to see why its so high??? for profits or what? something is fishy....


investigate what was the covered up and why we went to war for? i wonder what is going on?? like i said everything is fishy.. grr
 
jiro123 said:
Let's see who I'd like to see in jail or investigated -

Halliburton, Dick Cheney, Blackwater, I.C.E., Oil companies, bunch of politicians, contractors, special interests groups, and anybody who are involved in this war profiteering scheme.
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Anything but a public official's job performance is, what I find, a necessary art very lost in Washington. It's become a political battlefield that the concept of "majority rules" is lost (otherwise, that's the justice department's job).

The topics that you have pointed out have become an issue for many. The privitazion of war (or the overfunding of non-military personnel), the under-funding of a state/national military, and the convenience of a vice president, strongly, associated with the defense industry - the rush to war.

Anything but, though - I won't go down to their level (their principle being purely politics).
 
Banjo said:
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Bullshit, bullshit.
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LOL. Exactly right. It's all bull - just a political ploy to get more votes. He can't overturn laws if he became the next President. It doesn't work that way. If he thinks it does, then he didn't pay attention in law school.
 
deafbajagal said:
LOL. Exactly right. It's all bull - just a political ploy to get more votes. He can't overturn laws if he became the next President. It doesn't work that way. If he thinks it does, then he didn't pay attention in law school.
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You misunderstood. He's not overturning the law himself. He will get Attorney General, Supreme Court, and Congress involved to investigate and to pass the laws to overturn Bush's laws and Executive Orders.
 
jiro123 said:
You misunderstood. He's not overturning the law himself. He will get Attorney General, Supreme Court, and Congress involved to investigate and to pass the laws to overturn Bush's laws and Executive Orders.
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Obama is going to bring about, as the "next president," the forethought of American civilization, the constitutional value of such actions, already, done . . .

What I mean to say, he's not going to do it himself. He'll get an Attorney General, appointed by himself, to do so.

It's all politics - on all sides.
 
But gas will never be below $3.00 per gallon. Why? Because gas companies know it is a NECESSITY and people will buy it because they have to have it to go to work especialy in rural areas where public transportation simply does not exist.

I would and could see that Obama would put a price cap on gas here in the states because it is spiralling out of control and gas companies are letting it happen because it is bringing in record profits. Somebody needs to reign them in.

And as one posted before, if we got out of the middle east and then let them fight their own war, then gas prices would level off at least and may possibly drop in the future once things are settled.

But with Bush coming from oil money, he used politics to bring more personal profit for him and his family regardless of the cost to the rest of America.
 
I'm sure there are a lot of things that he would overturn... such as the Habeas Corpus, the No Child Left Behind Act, etc. :dunno:
 
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