{"id":6944,"date":"2014-10-31T01:11:21","date_gmt":"2014-10-31T01:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=6944"},"modified":"2014-10-31T01:11:21","modified_gmt":"2014-10-31T01:11:21","slug":"gop-lawsuit-takes-another-hit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=6944","title":{"rendered":"GOP lawsuit takes another hit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>That much-hyped lawsuit that congressional Republicans planned to file against President Obama has taken another body blow.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine that.<\/p>\n<p>A second law firm has backed out, apparently succumbing to pressure from Democratic groups. The firm declared that Republicans have little or no chance of winning a lawsuit, which they say they&#8217;ll file to challenge the president&#8217;s use of executive authority to change the Affordable Care Act.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/house-republicans-cant-anyone-sue-president-160655337.html<\/p>\n<p>Turns out that the law is working. It also turns out that the appetite for suing the president is being abated.<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit that Speaker John Boehner announced would occur is being exposed little by little for what it has been all along: a political stunt intended to fire up the base of the GOP.<\/p>\n<p>World events and the attention they have demanded of the president and Congress have eclipsed the silliness of such a lawsuit, given the gravity of issues abroad and the goofy intention of Republicans to stick it to the president over a law that&#8217;s looking more and more as if it&#8217;s here to stay &#8212; for keeps!<\/p>\n<p>Yahoo.com reported:\u00a0&#8220;House leaders have now all but given up on finding a new lawyer who will take the case, and Boehner is instead considering assigning the work to the chamber&#8217;s in-house counsel, which is a position appointed by the speaker.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit, which lacked merit from the get-go, appears headed for oblivion, where it belongs.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That much-hyped lawsuit that congressional Republicans planned to file against President Obama has taken another body blow. Imagine that. A second law firm has backed out, apparently succumbing to pressure from Democratic groups. The firm declared that Republicans have little or no chance of winning a lawsuit, which they say they&#8217;ll file to challenge the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=6944\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">GOP lawsuit takes another hit<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14],"tags":[131,540,1662,1952,2523,3376],"class_list":["post-6944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-aca","tag-barack-obama","tag-executive-authority","tag-gop-lawsuit","tag-john-boehner","tag-obamacare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6944\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}