President Obama has only had two major policy victories during his tenure: the stimulus package and Obamacare. Both are massively unpopular. The stimulus package launched the Tea Party movement. Obamacare led to the Republican wipeout of 2010.
Seems like we were always running away from President Obama or trying to undo what he's done.
Government is on a collision course with the future
A Trump presidency will plunge the United States into an era of unknowns that has little parallel in the nation's 240-year history.
This is nothing new. We saw this with the Social Security Act, the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Right Act - constitutional challenges were brought to all three of these monumental pieces of legislation.
One of the saddest and most damaging legacies of the [George W.] Bush administration is the increased assertion of the "state secrets" privilege, which kept organizations like the ACLU - which had cases of people who had actually been tortured and held in indefinite detention - from getting their day in court.
As a general rule, I do not think judges should consider current societal preferences when ruling on constitutional challenges.
There never seems to be any difficulty in stretching the laws and the constitution to fit any kind of a political deal, but when it is proposed to make some concession to women they loom up like an unscalable wall.
It is owing to the great obstinacy of individuals that it is difficult to govern with the Constitution in Prussia. A constitutional crisis is no disgrace: it is an honor. We are, perhaps, too cultured to endorse a Constitution.
The path to an amendment to the Constitution is a thorny one.
We've taken decisive action to keep radical islamic terrorists out of our country, though parts of our necessary and constitutional actions were blocked by our judges, in my opinion, incorrect, and unsafe ruling.
Our economic, civil, and constitutional rights are being challenged and, frankly, they are being lost.
When the American people elected Barack Obama and large Democrat majorities, the die was cast. ObamaCare was coming. Popular or not, constitutional or not, affordable or not, it didn't matter.
If I have to, I will use one challenge after another to dismantle governmental operations that I consider violations of the Constitution.
There are no insuperable constitutional difficulties.
