Filibuster is creating a crisis

Senate Republicans are precipitating a constitutional crisis.

Article II, Section 3 requires the president to “take care that the laws are faithfully executed.” As former Supreme Court Chief Justice William Howard Taft wrote, “the President alone and unaided could not execute the laws. He must execute them by the assistance of subordinates.” …

By filibustering President Obama’s appointees to offices authorized by law, Senate Republicans are preventing the president from fulfilling his constitutional obligation. [cont.]

Mark Mellman (Mellman Group), The Hill

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