House Speaker John Boehner put himself one step closer to suing the President of the United States on Thursday, unveiling a resolution permitting the move and attracting return fire from the White House. Announcing late in the day that the legal action will focus on the Affordable Care Act, Boehner fumed that Barack Obama had 'changed the health care law without a vote of Congress' in 2013, 'effectively creating his own law by literally waiving the employer mandate and the penalties for failing to comply with it.' The president, he carped, 'believes he has the power to make his own laws.'
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House Resolution will authorize Boehner to sue the White House for changing the Affordable Care Act without the consent of Congress
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The suit is likely to quickly land in the Supreme Court, which ruled last week that Obama has overstepped his constitutional authority
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'Given what we've seen from them lately, that can't be good,' worried a Democratic Senate aide
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'You’re going to sue me for doing my job?' Obama asked during a speech Thursday
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Republicans say the prospect of a lawsuit represents a defense of constitutional authority that belongs to legislators
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Democrats insist that the GOP is whining about the same kinds of Obamacare delays that they demanded just a year ago
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