remember jonathan turley, democrat, constitutional attorney, has talked about in this country a tippingnt as it relates to the constitution and the constitutional crisis. does the administration constitutionally have the right to do this unilaterally? or do they have to go back to congress, the statutory of limitations that were put into the law? >> i think to change the law or to give arbitrary exemptions to certain groups can't be done without congress doing this. so i think what he is doing is unconstitutional. i think if we can get this into court, i think you will find the court is going to agree with this also. yesterday in court, they had the hobby lobby case where they're telling hobby lobby, a privately-owned company, that they have to provide certain types of birth control. hobby lobby already provides birth control, but the government says, oh, no, you have to provide what we say is the best kind of birth control. all of these changes to the law eventually i think are going to work their way into court and my hope is the supreme court is going to say, you know what, this is i

have brought this country to a tipping point, we begin with liberal constitutional professor jonathan turley who said it best on wednesday on capitol hill. >> the president has, in fact, exceeded his authority in a way that is creating a destabilizing influence. the rate at which executive power is being concentrated in our system is accelerating. and frankly, i am

but you bring up jonathan turley, and we spoke with him as well.is a moment that we could look back on and rue in terms of the amount of flexibility that the executive branch was given. and he said you have to get the courts involved. where are the courts on this issue? and have you spoken to them about it? >> well, the courts don't like to get involved in political issues, but they do. and if you don't want to get involved in complicated constitutional issues, you probably shouldn't become a judge with subpoenas. courts routinely enforce subpoenas that the legislative branch issues with respect to the executive branch. there are lots of cases wherein a legislative branch has sued the,tive branch. the executive branch. the issue becomes one of standing. and what this bill yesterday asserts is that as a body, as an institution we have standing. i'm not talking about three or four members of the house who aren't happy with how a vote goes. i'm talking about when something passes congress, what other remedy do we have to get the executive to actually

now, we begin with professor jonathan turley who said it best on his comments. >> the president has exceededte at which the executive power is being concentrated in our system is accelerating. and frankly i

now, we begin with professor jonathan turley who said it best on his comments. >> the president has exceeded his authority in a way that is creating a destabilizing influence. the rate at which the executive power is being concentrated in our system is accelerating. and frankly i am very alarmed by the implications of that aggregation of power. i believe we're at a constitutional tipping point in our system. it is a dangerous point for our system to be in. and i believe your response has to begin before this president leaves office. no one in our system goes it alone. >> all right, there you have it. so how exactly has president obama overstepped his authority and created his constitutional crisis? here is how. take a look. >> protecting our first amendment rights are vital to who we are. >> attorney general eric holder defended the obama administration on the contraception mandate. >> if they refuse the mandate, refuse to violate their religious beliefs and refuse to pay the fine, who consequences as an employer will bishop campbell face? >> after groups of the tea party were harassed by th

now, we begin with professor jonathan turley who said it best on his comments. >> the president has exceeded authority in a way that is creating a destabilizing influence. the rate at which the executive power is being concentrated in our system is accelerating. and

now, we begin with professor jonathan turley who said it best on his comments. >> the president has exceededinfluence. the rate at which the executive power is being concentrated in our system is accelerating. and fnk

brought onto himself because even as liberal scholars of law and the constitution have said like jonathan turleysident has gone well beyond any precedent in circumventing congress and expanding executive authority. and the president's power in the separation of powers where we have checks and balances is to enforce the laws of the land, not to do so selectively. and congress up until this point has not had to go through this extent but we're seeing a greater expansion of this president's power being unchecked. >> well, there have been 30-some changes to obamacare in and of itself. just one law, bernard. i mean, i realize that it's on some people's minds ridiculous to think that you could sue the president in federal court because he's continually changing a law. but do you agree with the fact that we're not really standing by the constitution in the way in which it was written? >> no. in fact, the supreme court would disagree with that argument. they ruled almost 20 years ago in heckler versus cheney that the administration has broad authority to use all sorts of various tools as long as they be

. >> reporter: constitutional law professor jonathan turley says the president's executive actions threaten the delicate orbit of the separate branches of government. >> you either have to find a way to compromise or you can't get much done, but the one option you don't have is to go it alone sneakstive actions are just one conflict over the constitutional separation of powers. another one is brewing between the senate and the cia with the senate intelligence committee chair dianne feinstein breaking ranks with the president to accuse the cia of spying on senate staffers. the cia firing back with similar charges against the senate. while some say the fight needs to be recommend deed through the third branch of government, the courts, a senior administration official tells fox news the president wants to resolve it through normal channels. white house counsel katherine rumler is immediately trying to mediate the impasse. as if to significant that will these kinds of impasses may continue a senior administration official said the president has no intention of being limited by gop obstructioni

have brought this country to a tipping point, we begin with liberal constitutional professor jonathan turley who said it best on wednesday on capitol hill. >> the president has, in fact, exceeded his authority in a way that is creating a destabilizing influence. the rate at which executive power is being concentrated in our system is accelerating. and frankly, i am very alarmed by the implication of that power. i believe we are at a dangerous tipping point for our system to be in. i believe that your response has to begin before this president leaves office. no one in our system goes it alone. >> there you have it. so how exactly is president obama overstepped his authority and created this constitutional crisis? here's how. take a look. >> protecting our first amendment rights are vital to who we are. >> attorney general eric holder defended the obama administration's contraceptive mandate. >> if they refuse the mandate, refuse to violate their first amendment, refuse to violate their religious beliefs and refuse to pay the fines, what consequences will bishop campbell first? >> allies in c

. >> we have liberal left lawyers like jonathan turley saying you'll rue the day. >> he keeps doing itite of what david was talking about, he's not offered the republicans anything about changing the law except what he wants to change. because he won't do free market reforms. he won't give -- this law, this report says it will hurt working middle class people who make about $20,000, $40,000, $50,000 a year. they will end up paying more and having less in their paycheck because of it. >> and they wind up in medicaid. which is a poor man's medicare which has no doctors -- by the way, they're in the going n note with the part d drug thing. they're furious at that. >> vulnerable democratic senators are saying there should be more chance. democrats are running away from this, at least the ones that are vulnerable. >> we're missing a pretty credible fax. 4 million people have signed up. probably 8 million total at some point. the public does support things like in kentucky their own plan. they don't know it as obamacare, they know it as kentucky connect and they love it. they like it when th

lot has to do, too, with the fact that what we don't have, when we had hearings this week and jonathan turleyral professor who i admire a great deal, said i'm a supporter of the president, but we're in a constitutional tipping point because the president is assuming powers that don't exist, and the congress, both democrats and republicans, won't stand up for the institution. we're on a slippery slope to a banana republic like venezuela. sadly. >> the pen and paper situation, president obama will change the things that aren't working, and then we have midterms coming up. so maybe we'll postpone some of these mandates. >> that's right. that's what professor turley was getting into. doug has called it an extra constitutional presidency where he's doing stuff not prescribed by the constitution. going back to the first poll you put up. think back when you were a kid. the worst thing is not when your parents get mad at you. it's if they say, you know, jamie, i'm disappointed in you. that's a big thing. that poll didn't say they're dissatisfied with the presidency. they said they're disappointed in

you've got liberal law professors like jonathan turley at george washington saying, everybody's goingts will rue the day they give mr. obama this kind of power. now republicans will come in and change laws democrats don't want. this is not a small change. this is a big money change. >> it really is. and it's the 30th or thereabouts waiver or delay or exemption orç carveout for a favored constituency of the president. if you're a friend of the president, you get treated differently than the rest of the american people. and i think that's what's such an outrage about this. and the question is, on what authority does he do it? obviously with the democrats controlling the senate here on capitol hill, he has the votes. about the only way you're going to be able to stop him is to go to court. and there are some organizations who will be doing that. >> they're going to rue the day. let me move on, another subject. late in the day, posted on the front page of "the washington post" website, by amy goldstein, a pair of surveys out today, n mckenzie and company, get this, one in ten -- only one

times" column, jonathan turley, after acknowledging that he agreed with many of the policies of the current administration, went on to say, quote, in our system it is often more important how we do something than what we do. priorities and policies in president's change, democrats will rule the day when a future president negates an environmental law or an anti-discrimination law or tax laws. the separation of political power between three equal branches was designed to guard against too much power accumulating in the hands of any one person or branch. this system is one of the main reasons our government has endured for nearly a quarter of a millennia. we should not cast it asidelightly. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman yields back. for what purpose does the gentleman from rhode island seek recognition? mr. cicilline: mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. cicilline: mr. speaker, i rise today to pay tribute to master sergeant david pourier of

jonathan turley last week got up. he is a liberal democrat law professor. i agree with president obama's programs, but you have no right to discard the constitution. , where wass me is everyone else? known all speaks up. i've seen this on benghazi and the irs. economics. people appeared the greatest price under president obama on the very basis of his coalition, which is blacks, hispanics, women and young people have had the greatest loss of income, and issue the republicans have not been able to manage. moment about, a the problem. i want to touch on a couple of issues that relates to conservatives. what is the rule of law? -- when harryte as the president decides that he can rule by fiat without regard to the constitution, something that even a majority of democrats oppose, let me tell you what the republicans did not do. the republican leadership in the ,enate led by mitch mcconnell the ambrose burnside of american politics. that was the worst civil war general who managed to lose constantly. he was always surrendering to the democrats. the republican le

or as george washington university jonathan turley said, quote, president obama's become the very danger the constitution designed to avoid. if a president can unilaterally change the meaning of laws in substantial ways or refuse to enforce them, it takes off line the very thing that stabilizes our system, end quote. after that hearing i was able to introduce legislation to create a fast track independent judicial review process that would settle disputes over whether a president has exceeded his constitutional authority and whether he's met his duty to faithfully execute the law. legislation today before us accomplishes those same goals. it represents a commonsense procedural reform that establishes a practical effective solution to resolve serious questions about executive overreach. our system of checks and balances was designed to prevent a president or any other branch of the federal government from being able to unilaterally declare law by whatever that individual says it is at that point in time after the law was enacted. no doubt madison, jefferson and other framers understood th

recently a congressional law professor at george washington university, named jonathan turley, issued a dire warning. now, professor turley said he voted for president obama in the last election, that he agrees philosophically with president obama on many issues, but he said that if left unchecked the u.s. president could effectively become a government onto himself. now, he was referring that this president has been overly aggressive in the use of executive orders and regulations through various governmental agencies to accomplish his political goals. and the reason that we are here today is with this legislation, it is our hope that we can overturn one of the most extreme regulations of the obama administration. in january of next year, it is anticipated that they will finalize a rule from e.p.a. that will make it impossible to build a new coal power plant in america. now, that's hard to believe that that can be the situation in our great country, particularly since 40% of our electricity comes from coal. the reason that it will be impossible to build a new coal power plant because