Via Washington Examiner:
Attorney General Eric Holder couldn’t explain the constitutional basis for executive orders such as President Obama’s delay of the employer mandate because he hasn’t read the legal analysis — or at least, hasn’t seen it in a long time.
“I’ll be honest with you, I have not seen — I don’t remember looking at or having seen the analysis in some time, so I’m not sure where along the spectrum that would come,” Holder replied when Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, asked him to explain the nature of Obama’s constitutional power to delay the mandate.
Lee had based his question on a standard legal test, first described by Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson, who said the president’s authority to issue executive orders is strongest when he does so with the backing of Congress (category one), more dubious when he issues an order pertaining to a topic on which Congress has not passed a law (category two), and weakest when the executive order is “incompatible with a congressional command” (category three), to use Lee’s paraphrase.
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"Of course he can't. He has no more credibility on the constitution than his wimp-ass boss. They don't know the Constitution, they just want to destroy it, and a fine job they're doing, too. So, what the f**k, are we going to let 'em? How did Holder ever got a law degree? He can never answer a legal question, or doesn't remember anything pertaining to laws. How come the two smarted mother effers on the planet never know anything? The only thing he does is blame and justify. Maybe he got his law degree on the Internet. You know the ironic thing is that the