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Lawless: The Obama Administration's Unprecedented Assault on the Constitution and the Rule of Law Hardcover – November 17, 2015
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Lawless documents how President Barack Obama has presided over one constitutional debacle after anotherObamacare; unauthorized wars in the Middle East; attempts to strip property owners, college students, religious groups, and conservative political activists of their rights; and many more.
Violating his own promises to respect the Constitution’s separation of powers, Obama brazenly ignores Congress when it won’t rubber-stamp his initiatives. We can’t wait,” he intones when amending Obamacare on the fly or signing a memo legalizing millions of illegal immigrants, as if Congress doing its job as a coequal branch of government somehow permits the president to rule like a dictator, free from the Constitution’s checks and balances.
President Obama has also presided over the bold and rampant lawlessness of his underlings. Harry Truman famously said, The buck stops here.” When confronted with allegations that his administration’s actions are illegal, Obama responds, So sue me.”
Lawless shows how President Obama has betrayed not only the Constitution but also his own stated principles. In the process, he has done serious and potentially permanent damage to our constitutional system. As America swings into election season, it will have to grapple with finding a president who can repair Obama’s lawless legacy.
- Print length216 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherEncounter Books
- Publication dateNovember 17, 2015
- Dimensions5 x 1 x 8 inches
- ISBN-109781594038334
- ISBN-13978-1594038334
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"David Bernstein cogently demonstrates that the Obama Administration has treated the law as a mere extension of politics, not something valuable in itself. This is troubling on its own, and moreso with regard to the precedent it sets for future presidents. Lawless is a must-read account for scholars of executive power, and for anyone concerned about the future of our republic." Glenn Harlan Reynolds, Beauchamp Brogan Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Tennessee and Instapundit.com
"David Bernstein provides a comprehensive yet pithy narrative of the Obama administration's constitutional abuses and executive excesses. How sad that a presidency launched on the promise of transparency and the rule of law has instead been characterized by lawlessness in almost every area of policy." Ilya Shapiro, Senior Fellow in Constitutional Studies, Cato Institute
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- ASIN : 1594038333
- Publisher : Encounter Books (November 17, 2015)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 216 pages
- ISBN-10 : 9781594038334
- ISBN-13 : 978-1594038334
- Item Weight : 1.05 pounds
- Dimensions : 5 x 1 x 8 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #2,051,537 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #2,194 in United States Executive Government
- #2,231 in General Constitutional Law
- #8,355 in History & Theory of Politics
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David E. Bernstein holds a University Professorship chair at George Mason University's Antonin Scalia Law School, where he has been teaching constitutional law and other classes since 1995.
Bernstein is the author of five books, including the Amazon Top 50 bestseller, "You Can't Say That! The Growing Threat to Civil Liberties from Antidiscrimination Law," and coauthor of two more.
Professor Bernstein’s book Rehabilitating Lochner was praised across the political spectrum as “intellectual history in its highest form,” a “fresh perspective and a cogent analysis,” “delightful and informative,” “sharp and iconoclastic,” and “a terrific work of historical revisionism.”
Columnist George Will wrote that Bernstein’s most recent book, Classified, The Untold Story of Racial Classification in America, may be “the most consequential American book of 2022.”
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