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Jay Carney: Obama didn’t intend to challenge Supreme Court’s authority
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| Contributor | Imperator |
| Last Edited | Imperator Apr 04, 2012 10:16pm |
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| Author | Rachel Rose Hartman |
| Media | Website - Yahoo News |
| News Date | Thursday, April 5, 2012 04:15:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Jay Carney, the White House press secretary, defended President Obama's stern comments on the Supreme Court, arguing Wednesday during a heated spat with reporters that the president did not intend to imply the court lacks the authority to overrule the law commonly known as Obamacare.
"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," Carney said during Wednesday's White House briefing. "He was referring to 85 years of judicial precedent, of Supreme Court precedent, with regard to matters like the one under consideration. And it's maybe fun to pretend he meant otherwise, but everyone here knows that that's what he meant."
Carney later added that what the president said was "the reverse of intimidation."
Reporters pressed Carney to admit that the president did suggest a decision to overrule would be "unprecedented," but Carney would not relent, repeating that that was not the president's intent.
"He was a law professor," Carney reminded the press corps. |
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