Should Obama Be Able to Override Judges? Voters Have a Surprising Answer You Definitely Didn’t Learn in Government Class

[mystery-ak]

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2015/02/21/should-obama-be-able-to-override-court-decisions-against-him-read-how-voters-responded-when-asked-that-question/

Should Obama Be Able to Override Judges? Voters Have a Surprising Answer You Definitely Didn’t Learn in Government Class
Feb. 21, 2015 7:45am   Zach Noble

Basic U.S. government classes and “Schoolhouse Rock” may stress the importance of checks and balances, but for a huge chunk of Americans, checks and balances don’t mean much.

For those Americans, it’s imperative that President Barack Obama be able to override the other branches of government.

More than one-quarter of likely U.S. voters think President Obama should ignore federal court rulings “if they are standing in the way of actions he feels are important for the country,” according to Rasmussen Reports polling data released Friday.

An even bigger segment of Americans polled — 31 percent — said they believe Obama should take action overriding Congress on “important” issues and that it’s more important that American government operate “efficiently” than it is to preserve America’s checks and balances.

There was a distinct partisan split among the 800 likely voters polled.

On the issue of Obama ignoring court orders, 81 percent of Republicans and 67 percent of unaffiliated voters said the president should not be able to disregard inconvenient court cases, but among Democrats, 43 percent said Obama should be able to brush aside judges’ decisions that don’t go his way.

The polling comes as several of Obama’s hallmark achievements — including a federal judge blocking Obama’s executive immigration action that would halt millions of deportations and a pending Supreme Court case against Obamacare — are coming under judicial scrutiny.

Other findings: Women, young voters and black voters were more likely to say that Obama should be able to ignore court decisions, while voters over 40 and men were more likely to disagree.

poll
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/general_politics/february_2015/should_obama_ignore_the_federal_courts

questions
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/questions/pt_survey_questions/february_2015/questions_branches_of_government_february_18_19_2015

[raml]

The ignorance of voters in this day and age astounds me. Checks and balances is the only thing we have to prevent a dictator from taking over our government. We are watching the fall of the United States of America.

[truth_seeker]

Blacks skew the results.

[Free Vulcan]

Liberals are allowed to override the courts because of their superior moral ideology. No that is not a violation of separation of church and state, because liberals can't violate that, much like they can't be racists. And no, that is not a violation of the equal protection clause, because liberals can't violate that either.

Does that make thing clearer?