By Francesca Chambers President Barack Obama's 'flippant dismissal of the Constitution' is 'utterly beneath the dignity of the office,' House Speaker John Boehner said in a op-ed on Sunday explaining why the House is suing the president. 'I know the President is frustrated. I'm frustrated. The American people are frustrated, too,' Boehner wrote on CNN. But that irritation doesn't give the president the right to enact his own laws, the Republican leader argued. 'That's why, later this month, we will bring legislation to the House floor that would authorize the House of Representatives to file suit in an effort to compel President Obama to follow his oath of office and faithfully execute the laws of our country.'
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President Obama says Republicans in Congress are keeping vital legislation from becoming laws and so he must go around Congress to make reforms himself
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Boehner and his Republican colleagues say the president doesn't have the authority to change laws passed by Congress, and in doing so, he is violating the Constitution
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The House is now suing the president for what it sees as lawless behavior, and the president doesn't seem to care
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The president's nonchalant attitude about the House's suit stuck a nerve with Boehner, and the House Speaker took the president on over the weekend in an op-ed
@placeholder's lawsuit is perfectly timed to coincide with a previously scheduled congressional recess that will last from the first week of August through the first week in September.