THEY MUST SUE OBAMA OR THE PRESIDENCY HAS BECOME DESPOTIC (Reposted from comment

THEY MUST SUE OBAMA OR THE PRESIDENCY HAS BECOME DESPOTIC

(Reposted from comment on National review:)

They either must sue or impeach or they risk the de facto destruction of the balance of powers.

I prefer that he be struck by lightening from the hand of god (or a lucky lunatic foreign or domestic), but otherwise impeachment is political, impossible and leaves us with an imbecile in the presidency, while the courts construct prescedent and effectively reconstruct the laws that he has broken. I would much prefer a body of law to constrain the administration than I would the political process.

Once he is guilty he is defacto guilty of high crimes, so impeachment is either easier or unnecessary. In either case his presidency is done.

We will eventually have to separate state (ritual and veto) from government (administration). The presidency is, empirically a failed institution, both domestically and internationally. A monarchy with veto power and a parliamentary system have proven superior. But since we have no monarchy, a president unbound by term limits whose only power was the podium and veto would better fulfill the demands of the balance of powers.