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By Jared A. Favole
"Constitutional law scholar Laurence Tribe, a Harvard Law School professor and former mentor to President Barack Obama, said the president “obviously misspoke” earlier this week when he made comments about the Supreme Court possibly overturning the health-care law.
Mr. Tribe, who calls the president was one of his best students, said in an interview: “He didn’t say what he meant…and having said that, in order to avoid misleading anyone, he had to clarify it.”
Mr. Tribe said he saw no reason for the president to express his views on the matter, because everyone already knows he wants the case upheld.
“I don’t think anything was gained by his making these comments and I don’t think any harm was done,” Mr. Tribe said, “except by public confusion.”
The dust-up began Monday, when Mr. Obama was asked about the law and said it would be a prime example of judicial overreach if the Supreme Court ruled against it. “I’m confident that the Supreme Court will not take what would be an unprecedented, extraordinary step of overturning a law that was passed by a strong majority of a democratically elected Congress,” he said.
Republicans latched onto President Obama’s remarks, pointing out that it passed with 60 votes in the Senate, just achieving the supermajority needed to overcome a Republican filibuster, and by 219-212 in the House. They also lampooned the president by saying the Supreme Court exists to decide on the constitutionality of laws. The president taught law, including Constitutional law, for 12 years at the University of Chicago and has a degree from Harvard Law School.
On Wednesday, the White House defended President Obama’s remarks about the Supreme Court, saying he wasn’t trying to threaten justices into upholding the health-care law.
“It’s the reverse of intimidation,” White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said in a nearly hour-long briefing with reporters that was dominated by questions about the president’s remarks. He said the president was making an “unremarkable observation” that when it comes to matters of national economic importance, the court generally defers to Congress.
Mr. Carney said the president “obviously believes” the Supreme Court can and does overturn laws passed by Congress. “He certainly was not contending that the Supreme Court doesn’t have as its right and responsibility the ability to overturn laws passed by Congress as unconstitutional,” Mr. Carney said.
The president addressed his comments Tuesday. “The point I was making,” Mr. Obama said at a luncheon with reporters and editors, “is that the Supreme Court is the final say on our Constitution and our laws, and all of us have to respect it, but it’s precisely because of that extraordinary power that the Court has traditionally exercised significant restraint and deference to our duly elected legislature, our Congress.”
Mr. Carney said the president wasn’t walking back his comments but expanding on them. He said it was “clear” to most people who are following the Supreme Court case what the president meant."
By Jared A. Favole
"Constitutional law scholar Laurence Tribe, a Harvard Law School professor and former mentor to President Barack Obama, said the president “obviously misspoke” earlier this week when he made comments about the Supreme Court possibly overturning the health-care law.
Mr. Tribe, who calls the president was one of his best students, said in an interview: “He didn’t say what he meant…and having said that, in order to avoid misleading anyone, he had to clarify it.”
Mr. Tribe said he saw no reason for the president to express his views on the matter, because everyone already knows he wants the case upheld.
“I don’t think anything was gained by his making these comments and I don’t think any harm was done,” Mr. Tribe said, “except by public confusion.”
The dust-up began Monday, when Mr. Obama was asked about the law and said it would be a prime example of judicial overreach if the Supreme Court ruled against it. “I’m confident that the Supreme Court will not take what would be an unprecedented, extraordinary step of overturning a law that was passed by a strong majority of a democratically elected Congress,” he said.
Republicans latched onto President Obama’s remarks, pointing out that it passed with 60 votes in the Senate, just achieving the supermajority needed to overcome a Republican filibuster, and by 219-212 in the House. They also lampooned the president by saying the Supreme Court exists to decide on the constitutionality of laws. The president taught law, including Constitutional law, for 12 years at the University of Chicago and has a degree from Harvard Law School.
On Wednesday, the White House defended President Obama’s remarks about the Supreme Court, saying he wasn’t trying to threaten justices into upholding the health-care law.
“It’s the reverse of intimidation,” White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said in a nearly hour-long briefing with reporters that was dominated by questions about the president’s remarks. He said the president was making an “unremarkable observation” that when it comes to matters of national economic importance, the court generally defers to Congress.
Mr. Carney said the president “obviously believes” the Supreme Court can and does overturn laws passed by Congress. “He certainly was not contending that the Supreme Court doesn’t have as its right and responsibility the ability to overturn laws passed by Congress as unconstitutional,” Mr. Carney said.
The president addressed his comments Tuesday. “The point I was making,” Mr. Obama said at a luncheon with reporters and editors, “is that the Supreme Court is the final say on our Constitution and our laws, and all of us have to respect it, but it’s precisely because of that extraordinary power that the Court has traditionally exercised significant restraint and deference to our duly elected legislature, our Congress.”
Mr. Carney said the president wasn’t walking back his comments but expanding on them. He said it was “clear” to most people who are following the Supreme Court case what the president meant."
