Saturday, April 11, 2020

The Illegal and/or Unconstitutional Actions of President Barack Obama, Part 1



Comprehensive

This will be a four-part series consisting of fifty items each and I may write an epilogue.

We hear and read accusations of tyranny against President Trump and the reasonable among us – from entire political spectrum -- will ask for examples. These examples will often fall short of the tyranny mark and there are two reason for this:

1) the hollowing out of meaning and definitions, which leads to
2) the inability of many to recognize objective tyranny when it stared us in the face for eight years.

There are many other reasons, but these are the main headings. There are also spiritual reasons.

I am not the author or researcher of these examples.

The author doesn’t want to take credit and told me to say that a “little bird” dropped it in my email box – more like a large and lethal bird of prey. And this 200-item list isn't a complete one; the author just got tired.

For the initial publishing of these, there will be no links. However, I will add links to some of the items later, especially when requested.

Also, your fingers aren't broken -- at least not yet.

Part 2 will be published on Monday.

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1. The Obama Department of Labor abolished its rules requiring transparency in regard to spending by unions after it became apparent that the rules were too effective in exposing fraud.

2. In the government bailout of the auto industry, Obama illegally put union members ahead of secured creditors with absolute priority; doing so violated bankruptcy law and the Constitution’s Takings and Due Process Clauses.
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3. In firing Inspector General (IG) of the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) Gerald Walpin after Walpin found misuse of federal grants by Kevin Johnson and the St. HOPE Academy, Obama broke a law that he as a senator sponsored; the law requires that the president inform Congress of specific reasons why an IG is removed.

4. The Obama Car Czars illegally shut down 2200 car dealerships as part of the government restructuring of Chrysler and GM; as a result, over 120,000 Americans lost their jobs.

5. Obama tried to unilaterally repeal the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), the law that ensures a minimum standard for voluntary employee retirement and health plans.

6. Obama Acting Assistant Attorney General Loretta King wrote to Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson, informing him that Oklahoma’s proposed state constitutional amendment making English Oklahoma’s official language violated the civil rights of limited English proficient (LEP) persons; King illegally threatened to cut off federal funds to Oklahoma if the wording of the amendment were not changed.

7. Obama administration officials illegally met with lobbyists at coffee houses near the White House in order to avoid the disclosure requirements for White House visitors.

8. The Obama Department of Justice stopped a probe into political ally Bill Richardson, who was being investigated by a federal grand jury for pay-to-play allegations; “It was killed in Washington,” an anonymous source told the Associated Press.

9. Obama unconstitutionally appointed three members to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), bypassing the Senate.

10. Obama used an unconstitutional recess appointment to make Richard Cordray director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) while the Senate was still in session.

11. Obama illegally ordered the EPA to impose the Clean Power Plan after the Senate rejected it; the plan required states to reduce their carbon dioxide emissions, even though neither Obama nor the EPA had the authority to make such sweeping changes.

12. Obama crafted an illegal clandestine deal with the pharmaceutical industry in order to get ObamaCare passed.

13. The Obama IRS illegally provided tax credits and subsidies through federal health exchanges set up by the Department of Health and Human Services; because the law made no provision for IRS involvement, the IRS illegally granted itself the authority to spend $800 billion over 10 years on benefits not authorized by Congress.

14. The Obama IRS illegally granted retroactive tax-exempt status to the Barack H. Obama Foundation, an ostensible charity run by Obama’s half-brother Malik; IRS Director of the Exempt Organizations Unit Lois Lerner signed the paperwork in one month, which legalized the foundation’s previous three years of illegal fundraising.

15. The Obama Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) allowed straw buyers to illegally import rifles into Mexico in Operation Fast and Furious; several hundred murders—including those of two Americans—resulted.

16. Obama illegally offered positions in the Executive Branch to Democratic senatorial candidate Joe Sestak to keep him from running against Arlen Specter.

17. The Obama administration thwarted Inspector General (IG) investigations into Amtrak, the EPA, the Troubled Asset Relief Program, and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB); Obama Attorneys General Eric Holder and Loretta Lynch ignored the findings of dozens of IGs.

18. Obama Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) Kathleen Sebelius threatened to put out of business insurance companies that informed their clients of the impact of ObamaCare.

19. The Obama National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) imposed illegal and unconstitutional new rules requiring nonunion businesses to encourage their workers to unionize.

20. The Obama Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) illegally granted exemptions from new emissions laws to companies owned by Obama donors.

21. The Obama Department of Justice illegally stopped enforcing the Defense of Marriage Act.

22. ObamaCare illegally forced taxpayer-funded abortion on the entire country and mandated that health insurance cover abortifacient drugs.

23. The Obama administration worked with investor Steve Eisman to write new for-profit college regulations that allowed Eisman to make a massive windfall in short-selling.

24. The Obama Department of the Interior routinely ignored court orders and was found in contempt multiple times.

25. The Obama Treasury Department saved the pensions of unionized GM workers while allowing non-unionized workers’ pensions to default; the same was done in regard to the pension plans of parts manufacturer Delphi.

26. The Obama White House hid a program that paid union workers taxpayer money to lobby the government for more unions.

27. The Obama Department of Homeland Security ordered Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to enforce the DREAM Act even though the bill was defeated in Congress multiple times.

28. The Obama Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) illegally granted ObamaCare waivers to political allies; nearly 20 percent of the waivers went to Nancy Pelosi’s San Francisco’s district, while Harry Reid’s state of Nevada got a blanket waiver.

29. The Obama National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) illegally imposed the Employee Free Choice Act—which allowed unions to enter negotiations in non-unionized companies—after Congress voted it down.

30. ObamaCare illegally immunized the Independent Payment Advisory Board from lawsuits resulting from the way its decisions impacted patients.

31. The Obama Department of Justice raided musical-instrument manufacturers that had donated to Republicans but avoided Democrat-run manufacturers that used the same exotic wood obtained in the same way.

32. The Obama administration subsidized “green” companies run by donors and campaign supporters; when the companies went bankrupt, their executives collected hundreds of millions of dollars in golden parachutes.

33. The Obama administration threatened private companies whose CEOs criticized Obama’s economic policies.

34. Obama bypassed Congress and illegally ordered new regulations on student loans, government contracts, pharmaceutical drugs, and mortgages.

35. The Obama Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) designed its illegal gun-walking Operation Fast and Furious to bolster a push for tighter gun control in the US [Ed. Note: item #15].

36. The Obama Department of Justice illegally sued Arizona and Alabama for enforcing federal immigration law.

37. The Obama Federal Communications Commission (FCC) ignored Congress and a court order to illegally impose new regulations on the Internet.

38. The U.S. Office of Special Counsel determined that Obama Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius violated the Hatch Act by campaigning for Obama while traveling on official business; federal employees are required to be terminated for this violation, but Obama ignored the law.

39. Obama illegally offered waivers to provisions of the national education law No Child Left Behind.

40. The Obama National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) illegally sued aircraft manufacturer Boeing for trying to open a plant in the right-to-work state of South Carolina.

41. ObamaCare broke existing federal law by conferring benefits on same-sex couples.

42. The Obama EPA illegally and unconstitutionally declared that its decisions would be based on "environmental justice,” which resulted in certain types of pollution being labeled racist.

43. The Obama Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement instructed companies to lie about job losses caused by new regulations on coal.

44. The Obama administration illegally gave filmmakers classified information on the bin Laden raid.

45. The Obama Treasury Department illegally created new rules that made it harder for companies to set up in countries with low tax rates.

46. After Congress banned funding of ACORN, Obama gave $445.6 million to the Illinois Housing Development Authority, run by Joe McGavin, who was at the time still Chicago Operations Manager of the renamed ACORN Housing.

47. In order to enact new climate-change rules, the EPA illegally declared that carbon dioxide is a pollutant.

48. Romney donor Frank L. VanderSloot was publicly named by the Obama campaign Website, and he was audited by the IRS and the Department of Labor for the only time in his life, costing him $80,000 in legal fees.

49. The Obama Consumer Product Safety Commission illegally banned a toy called Buckyballs in a “recall prior to injury,” requiring ZenMagnets to fight a six-year court battle to regain the right to manufacture its product again.

50. Obama political appointees at the Department of Justice vacated a case against the Black Panthers after the department had won.

NEXT: The Illegal and/or Unconstitutional Actions of President Barack Obama, Part 2

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22 comments:

Lee Also said...

My eyes glazed over at #27. I had known it was bad, but I hadn't know the degree too which.

BTW, regarding Obamacare and EMR: The only EMR compliant with Obamacare was one that was privately owned, the owner of which was a big Obama bundler. Other companies complained that given sufficient time, they could become compliant. That time was not granted.

Obama ruled by fiat in a way no one else has ever gotten away with. And he shouldn't have. He belongs in prison, but by the time anything gets done towards that, his defense will large that the statute of limitations had run out.

Anonymous said...

Thank you for doing this.
While none of this would surprise me, it really would help to have links to articles that support your points. I know it is a lot more work but too easily dismissed without backup.

baldilocks said...

Anonymous: Understood. I'll be working on it for a bit. Looking forward to it, actually.

Unknown said...

I recall being stunned by the executive actions in the first six months of Obama - until it dawned on me that these items had been created, cross referenced, and imprimatured by the inner circle long before he swore in.

Thanks to the person who compiled the list, and to you for publishing it.

Sibyl said...

THANK YOU! I have been searching for this list a long time - and wished so many times I had copied it the first time the 'little bird' published it.

Rodney Short said...

#28 should make every American see red...



I cant wait for the next drop so I can share this big Red Pill with everyone I know...

Shelzii said...

You rock Baldilocks, thank you for all your hard work.

Linda Fox said...

Awesome list, really puts it all together. Even though I lived through those times, and was reading the news and blogs, the full extent of this betrayal of American citizens didn't hit me until today. It really needed to be put into a list, with descriptions of the acts, to recognize the outright grab for tyrannical power.

Linda Joy Adams said...

Born in Topeka Ks and 'everyone knew" including media...and as shared on my site as eye witness to events... THE DUPING OA THE USA was all looking all over the world for a birth records back in Topeka KS from Forbes Air force base hospital as his grandfather Daniel Wayne Pope from Colorado was career military....who took the id of the older Stanley Dunham who was called back for D Day and his id taken by another...all their lives...real dad lynched 3/61 in attack on all three and Obama unborn...and marriage to Obama arranged and never lived together....to give a name 6/61..only r4ecord with US State dept file number for a foreign born...parent of option of dual citizenship is the real one on the other data base for military hospital births...and KRIS KOBACH'S STAFF CHECKED AND STOPPED AT BARRY SOETORO so used for that adoption....AND THEN KRIS KOBACH did not tell the whole truth in court the next week BUT TOO MANY GOOD PEOPLE GOT SO SIDETRACKED THAT ALL GOING ON officially got ignored... and I got disses on all sides for telling the truth...as I was there and my mom was at the birth...LINDA JOY ADAMS@blogger.com and family details back later half of 2012..and THE FAMILY NONE KNOWS on Linda Joy Adams Flkr….and two Stanley Dunham families...with wife and child with same names and a real mxzup online...of both families in a jumble...and many of the older ones not Obama's as for me..in 2008 voted for relatives on the opposing ticket...and never officially said in 2012..but an in law was on that ticket...and personally....if Gov Huckabee had run in 2012...he would have won....but too much hatred for wrong reasons had many duped...and big money was behind the birther movement that got many sincere people caught up in it...UN SEC GEN OBAMA may be ahead...so lets get the facts straight on who he really is and whether he is the best choice as we are past due for one from North America to be elected..I tired to get past his handlers when this came up as never close to that part of family after his mother left Topeka to finish HS in Washington state... OPEN FBI CASE OF MULTIPLE MEMBERS OF ROSA PARKS EXTENDED FAMILy died that day when his dad JIM T Parks was lynched and everyone knew and scared to talk with the suppression of the facts by media in 2008...and since..also check my site..RUSSIAN PRINCE USA PRESIDENT.. for the full family history...and on flkr the names used are those of family since coming to USA and escape over 100 years ago... .Linda Joy Adams

Unknown said...

This will lead up to disclosure....Obama was executed on 9/29/19 by firing squad. Hillary was executed on 2/28/19 by lethal injection....utsava

Unknown said...

Obama was executed on 9/28/19 Hillary on 2/28/19 utsava

mc said...

And what did the Republicans ever do about any of it. Nothing. They let him get away with all of it.

baldilocks said...

mc: Correct.

The Republican congress was too afraid of being called racist.

Aaron's cc: said...

Looking forward to annotated version. Try to use NYT, WaPo, and other MSM sources because Fox, Breitbart, etc. won't be credible to those who most need to see this. Using *their* sources is best.

Henry said...

#15: ...with the intent to arm organized criminal operations in another country, a bona fide war crime under international law, for which he could be prosecuted at any time.

Would't the Nobel Committee love that.

Boss said...

You are truly a great American! I intend to reblog all of this, giving you credit! This is a great service you’ve done even if the list came from someone else....he should be thanked, and so should you! People don’t know this stuff! They think he was great!

Anonymous said...

I lived through it and still can't accept the depth of felonious corruption that was allowed to transpire...breathtaking.

Unknown said...

It doesn't surprise me. He did learn his political shenanigans in Chicago after all. Just sayin'...

Unknown said...

Wow!! I'm impressed lol mine glazed over at 14!!! It took me a whe to read all and yes, I am still shocked at what I didn't know!!

Dale W said...

Thank you both for your hard work! I will be 60 in a few months and I never paid much attention to politics until the 2016 election. I had no idea the Obama administration was so corrupt.

Baron Sardonicus said...

When GWB trampled the Constitution I railed against it. My conservative friends insisted it was OK because he was doing the right thing and those who's rights were violated "deserved it" or "were terrorists" (maybe, but not tried or convicted thus presumed innocent). I warned that "Eventually King Solomon died and his sword fell into the hands of someone less wise...beware of precedents set by GWB.Those powers to get away with unconstitutional actions will be inherited by future Democrat and liberal presidents". WEll, 'bama inherited all that and pushed the envelope further. Historical note: GWB issued more executive orders than 'Bama.

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