Obama administration's unprecedented attempts to expand federal power.


This release from Senator Cruz is an explanation how the Supreme Court
has unanimously rejected Obama administration arguments six times since
January of 2012.

These are six things that the Obama administration sought which would
have granted unchecked executive power but were turned back by the
Supreme Court.

But had Obama succeeded at the Supreme
Court, "the federal government would have the power to: Attach GPSs to a
citizen’s vehicle to monitor his movements, without having any cause to
believe that a person has committed a crime
Obama lost that.

Obama would have had the right to deprive landowners
of the right to challenge potential government fines as high as $75,000
per day and take away their ability to have a hearing to challenge those
fines. That's an EPA case that Obama lost.


Had Obama won at the court, Obama would have had the power to interfere
with a church’s selection of its own ministers. This was a Lutheran church and
school versus the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
This was a case where the government was demanding the right to select the
ministers at a church. They lost.


The next issue, the government would have
had the power to do, had the court not turned them down, was to override
state law whenever the President desires. This was, in part, the Arizona
immigration law. They wrote their own law to mirror federal immigration law
because Obama wasn't enforcing it.

The Supreme Court ruled in such a way
to deny the federal government the ability to override state law.
Big victory there. All of these are victories. The federal government, the
Obama administration was turned back in all of these.


The next one: The
federal government would have had the power to dramatically extend
statutes of limitations to impose penalties for acts committed decades ago.
(Gabelli v. SEC)." So had the regime not lost that, they could have extended
the statutes of limitations in order to impose penalties for crimes committed
decades ago -- on a whim, whenever they wanted to apply. An end to the statute
of limitations, they coulda done it.

The Supreme Court said no.

The last one: Had Obama's Department of Justice been successful, the federal
government would have had the power to destroy private property without
paying just compensation. (Arkansas Fish & Game Commission v. United States)."


So Ted Cruz has put out this release. There are six cases here where the Supreme
Court, in the last 16 months, has beaten back the Obama administration in
various power grabs.