Five Ways Obama Is Circumventing the Legislative Branch

For all of candidate Barack Obama’s campaign rhetoric promising to respect Congress’s authority to draft the nation’s laws, President Obama has demonstrated a persistent pattern of circumventing the legislative branch via administrative fiat whenever his agenda stalls. And though one of the Obama campaign’s legal advisers cautioned against a President who would 'take the law into his own hands and shred it when it's convenient,' he has done just that time and time again."