{"id":9601,"date":"2012-06-26T15:14:45","date_gmt":"2012-06-26T15:14:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/06\/26\/the-obama-administrations-contempt-for-the-rule-of-law\/"},"modified":"2012-06-26T15:14:45","modified_gmt":"2012-06-26T15:14:45","slug":"the-obama-administrations-contempt-for-the-rule-of-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/06\/26\/the-obama-administrations-contempt-for-the-rule-of-law\/","title":{"rendered":"The Obama Administration&#8217;s Contempt for the Rule of Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">We are living in very dangerous times.&#0160; You need to inform yourself.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2012\/06\/25\/krauthammer_obama_intent_on_not_enforcing_immigration_law.html\" target=\"_self\">Krauthammer: Obama Intent on Not Enforcing Immigration Law<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Charles Krauthammer, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.investors.com\/article\/615618\/201206211729\/obama-violates-constitutional-obligation-for-re-election.htm\" target=\"_self\">Obama&#39;s Naked Lawlessness<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Thomas Lifson, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanthinker.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/rule_of_law_now_an_election_issue.html\" target=\"_self\">Rule of Law Now an Election Issue<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Diana West, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dianawest.net\/Home\/tabid\/36\/EntryId\/2161\/Why-Arizona-Matters.aspx\" target=\"_self\">Why Arizona Matters.<\/a>&#0160; Excerpt:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">I find it difficult to regard the Supreme Court decision on Arizona immigration law as just another controversial or disappointing highest court decision. There is something almost post-apocalyptic&#0160;&#0160;and certainly pre-totalitarian when, to invoke Justice Scalia&#39;s dissent,<em> the Court has ruled that Arizona contradicts federal law by enforcing it. <\/em>Yes, as Scalia put it, it &quot;boggles the mind.&quot; It also conjures up truly alarming comparisons with &quot;justice&quot; as meted out by kangaroo courts, show trials and other horrors of totalitarian dictatorships.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Did we defeat the Soviet empire so that we could become a totalitarian state like it?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are living in very dangerous times.&#0160; You need to inform yourself. Krauthammer: Obama Intent on Not Enforcing Immigration Law Charles Krauthammer, Obama&#39;s Naked Lawlessness Thomas Lifson, Rule of Law Now an Election Issue Diana West, Why Arizona Matters.&#0160; Excerpt: I find it difficult to regard the Supreme Court decision on Arizona immigration law as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/06\/26\/the-obama-administrations-contempt-for-the-rule-of-law\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Obama Administration&#8217;s Contempt for the Rule of Law&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[131,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arizona","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9601\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}