This morning I will be testifying as the lead witness before the House Rules Committee on the authorization of litigation by the House of Representatives to challenge the unilateral actions of President Obama. The authorization makes it clear that the House will focus on the ACA changes. The hearing will begin at 10 am in H-313 in The Capitol building. It will be aired live on C-Span 3.
I will be the lead witness followed by Elizabeth Price Foley, Professor of Law, Florida International University College of Law, then Simon Lazarus, Senior Counsel, Constitutional Accountability Center, and Walter Dellinger III, Partner, O’Melveny & Meyers LLP.
I would like to thank my incredible GW team for their proofing of the testimony. I have been in federal court and then federal mediation so this testimony was a crash project and, despite my getting the draft out on the day of the deadline, the team did a marvelous job late into the night. So thanks again to Claire Duggan, Michael Jones, Ann Porter, Nathan Richardson, and Conrad Risher.
Here is the testimony: Testimony.Turley.HouseRulesCommittee
Bob, Esq.
I thought she was good, too.
Mespo,
Elizabeth Price Foley’s discussion of standing and institutional injury was far more convincing.
Furthermore, her discussion of Utility Air Regulatory Group v. EPA, 134 S. Ct. 2427 (2014) and Kerr v. Hickenlooper 744 F.3d 1156 (10th Cir. 2014) clearly show why the suit has merit.
Beldar:
“Trudy Trudeau and turd”
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Thanks, Beldar. That’s a riot.
Squeeky:
I call it like I see ’em. Funny I’m only liberal on the social stuff.
America fronts itself off as a plant with three branches of government which are supposed to counter balance each other. I see some problems here. The Congressional branch has become too greedy and dependent on donors such as the Koch Brothers. They are too busy to legislate. The judiciary is hung up on such things like the Original Thinking of the Original Framers of the Original Constitution. They have little thought for say the Framers of the Reconstruction Amendments which for edification to readers are the 13th, 14th and 15th. The Original Framers would have trouble with nine Justices on the Court that are all from Harvard and Yale, three ware women, three are Italian, one is black and six or so of them are from Jersey and New York and speak turdy turd and a turd. I learned all of this from BarkinDog in a prior blog. Then the Executive will not do enough to move the machinery of government forward in light of the lame Congress. The President gets blamed for doing too much on his own. I think that it is time for some people to Occupy The Halls of Congress and demand some work, some time in the Halls and not on K street and C Street. The theme in this topic today is good because it shows the ineptness of Congress. Obama needs to do more not less. Congress needs to do a lot more. Vote them all out.
@messpoo
Thank you for saying nice things. I am only a conservative person on social stuff. On economic stuff, I am more progressive. Which I think is a blue dog democrat. But I have voted Republican the last two times for president.
Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter
Broken high self-esteem is easily restored; low self-esteem, not so much.
Squeeky:
BTW, it was you who called me stubborn.
Squeeky:
No I give you credit. You did come around from that insane birther position but you sure took your sweet time. I consider you inexperienced but game. There’s value to that. I think you can be educated out of this Republicanism/modern conservatism. Hopefully your friends can help there. Bottom line — you’re like an errant bullet: quick (as in witted); narrow (as in life experience) but capable of new trajectory. Good luck on the path.
@messpoo
I doggedly deny that I am stubborn!!! Anyway, my Millon book is at home sooo I am flying a little blind. I can see your distinction between high fragile and high secure. But I am having difficulty distinquishing between low self esteem and broken high self esteem. Do you have any examples explaining how the two might present???
Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter
OMG! Virginia Foxx heartily agreed with JT. With friends like her, you really don’t need enemies. She’s the dolt who voted against Hurricane Katrina aid and warned us all about the death panels under the ACA. What a loon!
Thanks, Bob. I’ll check it out later.
Squeeky:
“Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.” I don’t think Euripides would mind me adding “or stubborn.”
Bob, Esq,:
Thanks for the link, Bob. I watched the original presentations and I have to say the sides were well matched. I thought JT did his usual fine job articulating his position but I was struck by the presentation of Walter Dellinger. Dellinger was particularly adroit at explaining the merits of the standing issue and his belief supported by Marbury v. Madison that the SCOTUS is not a knight errant charged with roaming the countryside looking for constitutional dragons to slay. To hear that 8 out of 9 justices have already ruled that way was enlightening. Sounds like the suit is a dead letter.
BTW was that you in that white suit?
OMG, some people are just sooo stubborn about inconsequental stuff. Sooo, this just screeeeeeaaams for an Irish Poem :
To Cluster B Or Not Cluster B???
Or, Brittle Girl Blue
An Irish Poem by Squeeky Fromm
There once was a girl histrionic
Whose outbursts were frequent and chronic.
And not to belittle. . .
Her ego was brittle
Though her head spun around quite demonic.
Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter
Squeeky:
Remind me not to have you do any research for me. The article you provided says narcissists have fragile self-esteem not low self-esteem. You can have fragile low or fragile high but narcissists have fragile high as YOUR article says.
Eric:
Jargon aside, there is a clinical difference between high self-esteem and narcissism as the article notes. Narcissists simply don’t care. People with high self-esteem may care about others very much and are not properly called narcissists. However, there is no evidence to suggest that narcissists have low self-esteem.
mespo727272,
It just makes sense for most people, not just narcissists, that our self in the context of our inner world is not the same as our self in the context of the social world. They’re not completely firewalled, but the inside-in and outside-in inputs are distinct.
I seriously doubt Hillary would’ve gone for Single Payer. She is a moderate, not to the left of Obama.
@messpoo
Hmmm. Here ‘s a better primer. Try the 4th regular paragraph:
http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/narcissistic-personality-disorder/basics/symptoms/con-20025568
All this psychological stuff is subjective as heck but you are probably advocating a minority view.
Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter