Damon Root: A Brief History of Obama’s Biggest Constitutional Flops

Last
month’s Supreme Court oral argument in National Labor Relations
Board v. Noel Canning brought new attention to a recurring
problem with the Obama administration. Despite his training as a
former constitutional law lecturer, President Barack Obama
continues to push dubious legal theories that fail to persuade even
the most liberal justices to vote in his favor. Indeed, writes
Senior Editor Damon Root, the White House has recently suffered a
string of embarrassing courtroom defeats, losing unanimously on
issues ranging from warrantless GPS tracking to the free exercise
of religion. As we await the outcome in Noel Canning, here
are Obama’s biggest constitutional flops to date.

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