U. S. House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) plans to introduce legislation that will allow the House to sue President Obama for unconstitutional overreach, according to nytimes.com. Allowing the House to sue through the House general counsel, the bill is in response to the president’s executive actions, including preventing the deportation of young illegal immigrants who came to the U. S. as children, rising the minimum wage for employees of federal contractors and allowing the curbing of carbon emissions from coal plants. Rep. Boehner says these issues are the responsibility of Congress to consider. “I believe the House must act as an institution to defend the constitutional principles at stake and to protect our system of government and our economy from continued executive abuse,” he said in the letter. “The president has an obligation to faithfully execute the laws of our country.” MHProNews understands courts are generally reluctant to intervene in cases involving the executive and legislative branches of government.

Meanwhile, the Supreme Court has decided by a 5-4 vote that Hobby Lobby may opt out of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) on religious grounds that requires them to provide contraceptives to female employees, as MHProNews has learned.

In addition, Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) says the Obama administration suffered their 12th defeat at the hands of the Supreme Court over the so-called recess appointments that were made when Congress was not actually in recess. Sen. Lee, quoted in nationalreview.com, says it is just the “tip of the iceberg” because there are other cases of President Obama exceeding his executive authority that have not made it to the Supreme Court yet. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) says, “This marks the 12th time since January 2012 that the Supreme Court has unanimously rejected the Obama administration’s calls for greater federal executive power,” he pointed out after the release of the recess-appointments ruling. He had previously said in April 2013, “When President Obama’s own Supreme Court nominees join their colleagues in unanimously rejecting the administration’s call for broader federal power nine times in 18 months, the inescapable conclusion is that the Obama administration’s view of federal power knows virtually no bounds.” ##

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