Congress VS President

[Figaro]

Can they sue the President, or is it just a PR-campaign?
The history of the United States has not had analogues of such litigation. United States Supreme Court in its decisions was always guided by the fact that a person or group of persons who applied to the court against the President, did not have sufficient legal "weight" to start a court case. Today, lawyers say that if Congress will vote for the prosecution of the President, the situation may change radically. In other words, the President may be found to have violated constitutional law. But does the impeachment procedure does not imply a more serious crimes committed by the head of state, rather than going beyond the legal competence?

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

Can they sue the President, or is it just a PR-campaign?

Both.

The 'lawsuit' will be tossed, of course, but the extremist rightwing base will be appeased.

 

[rightwinger]

This is just a placeholder before the November elections to appease the TeaTards

 

[Seawytch]

Well...imagine you're the judge hearing this case. Here are the facts.

*Congress demands Obama delay employer mandate
*Through executive order, Obama delays employer mandate
*Congress sues the President for doing what they wanted
*Next day, Congress tells Obama to bypass Congress to pass immigration laws regarding border crisis

The GOP should be laughed out of court and Congress.

 

[Desperado]

Forget congress suing the President, It is just a shame that the citizens of the United States cannot sue both the President and Congress for malfeasance and dereliction of duty.

 

[Idadunno]

Regardless of the House voting to allow the law suit, Boehner must prove that he was personally harmed by Obama's action, which he was not. Interesting, if the people pay attention, people who have been personally harmed (financially) by the ACA can sue the president and the members of Congress that voted for the ACA for implementing the law and enforcing it. That is a class action suit I would love to witness.
No one wants Obama impeached, which is allowed by the Constitution, because then Biden would become acting president. More importantly, to impeach the first African-American president would risk losing votes from the African-American community. Those who backed impeachment would be called racist and that makes for bad campaigning.