Strassel: Obama’s Imperial Presidency

When Congress won’t do what he wants, he ignores it and acts anyway.

The ObamaCare litigation is history, with the president’s takeover of the health sector deemed constitutional. Now we can focus on the rest of the Obama imperial presidency.

when Mr. Obama wants a new program and Congress won’t give it to him, he creates it regardless. Congress, including Democrats, wouldn’t pass his cap-and-trade legislation. His Environmental Protection Agency is now instituting it via a broad reading of the Clean Air Act.

This president’s imperial pretensions extend into the brute force the executive branch has exercised over the private sector.

Mr. Obama came to office promising to deliver a new kind of politics. He did—his own, unilateral governance.

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