Boehner Lawsuit Months in Planning

Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) announced last week “that he would spearhead a House lawsuit against the president to challenge, in his view, the Obama administration’s unconstitutional overreach of its executive authority and abrogation of laws passed by Congress,” the Washington Examiner reports.

“Obama and congressional Democrats are calling the move a political stunt because of the timing of the announcement, which came less than five months before the midterm elections. But Boehner actually started putting the lawsuit together in January.”

“Six months ago, at the speaker’s direction, House leadership aides began consulting with legal scholars and Republican staff on the House Judiciary Committee in preparation to jumpstart legal action.”