Impeach Obama? John Boehner’s Lawsuit Called A ‘Dress Rehearsal’ for President’s Impeachment

Could John Boehner’s lawsuit lead to Congress having President Obama impeached? That’s the idea being spread around by some who believe this is the first step toward having Republicans impeach Obama.

In a related report by The Inquisitr, the efforts to impeach Obama in 2014 are supposedly gaining steam with Operation American Spring, with long time advocates of the final measure trying to gather support for serving up articles of impeachment to President Barack Obama. Last year, Texas governor Dewhurst called for Obama’s impeachment, and even a young Texas Democrat called for impeachment while using photos of Obama with a Hitler mustache. Some said that Bowe Bergdahl’s trade with the Taliban was justification enough to have Obama impeached because the President’s action provided “aid and comfort to the enemy.”

Now the lawsuit against Obama by Boehner claims the President has been abusing his power, and that he has exceeded the constitutional authority of the executive office:

“My view is the president has not faithfully executed the laws. What we have seen clearly over the last five years is an effort to erode the power of the Legislative Branch. On one matter after another during his presidency, President Obama has circumvented the Congress through executive action, creating his own laws and excusing himself from executing statutes he is sworn to enforce, at times even boasting about his willingness to do it, as if daring the America people to stop him.”

According to the Washington Post, this lawsuit is merely a “dress rehearsal” for having Obama impeached:

“After going out on a not-so-wobbly limb to suggest that Republicans would push to impeach President Obama if they succeeded in retaking the Senate, George Will’s Sunday column read like a real threat. Fed up with what he views as Obama’s ‘offenses against the separation of powers,’ the conservative columnist advocated that Congress sue the executive branch to stop a lawless president…. At the end of his column, Will advocates for the courts to allow Congress to sue the president if only to keep it from utilizing ‘the cumbersome and divisive blunderbuss process of impeachment.’ He says such a move ‘should be a rare recourse.’ Then there was this key line: ‘Furthermore, it would punish a president for anti-constitutional behavior but would not correct the injury done to the rule of law.’ For many Republicans, the punishment of impeachment is exactly what they want. This lawsuit threat is just the first step.”

Of course, House Republicans cannot impeach Obama now unless they manage to regain a majority after the 2014 mid-term elections. As defined by the U.S. Constitution, articles of impeachment must start in the House Of Representatives. Although Republicans have a solid majority in the House, and they might be able to impeach Obama successfully there, the Constitution also provides a balance of power by putting the power to enforce a Presidential impeachment into the hands of the Senate. Any attempt to impeach Obama in the House is a waste of time, because the current U.S. Senate would never enforce it due to the Democratic majority.

Because of these facts, if Republicans truly are planning on impeaching Obama in 2015, then it makes sense for John Bohner to start off with a lawsuit now. Do you think it could happen?