Now Obama is making judicial judgments.
He has decided that the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) is unconstitutional. So he has decreed that the federal government will no longer defend this law, which has been the law of the land since President Clinton.
By doing this, Obama will ensure that DOMA will eventually be overthrown.
This is blatently unconstitutional. Our constitution provides for a division of powers between executive, legislative and judicial branches. The president cannot decide whether a law is unconstitutional or not, or whether it is worthy of defending or not.
A president can work within the constitution to change laws, but Obama isn't working within the constitution here. This is simply presidential hocus-pocus---and carried to a logical conclusion, Obama can simply ignore any law he doesn't like.
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