Reply #38: It's current law nonetheless, and one cannot pick-and-choose. It's the law. What's confusing here?

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People question the Constitutionality of all sorts of things. They're free to question, challenge, litigate, legislate and rage from the rooftops, but the standing law is the law.

He took an oath to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution.

This argument of "oh, it may not really be all that valid, so it's not such a big deal" is barbaric beyond merely anarchic; it's self-indulgent, backhanded, scofflaw criminality.

Sorry for venting on you; you don't seem like a bad sort at all, but this is IMPORTANT. We are a nation of laws, and if we allow one of "us" to flagrantly violate something because some people find it a bit questionable, we are playing favorites and no better than the Republicans. That's disgusting.

Mull this over: even though all of the Presidents haven't liked it and many imperialists and executive-enhancers don't like it, it's BEEN SETTLED LAW FOR ALMOST 40 YEARS, so it's hardly "marginal" or "iffy"; it's got at least some validity to have stood for so very, very long.

Please join me on the side of the law. If Obama doesn't address this and try to make amends, not only will it probably bite him in the ass, it makes us high-handed selfish assholes.