Obama's Top 10 Constitutional Violations in 2013

"It was hard to limit myself to 10 items," writes Ilya Shapiro, editor-in-chief of the Cato Supreme Court Review, "but these, in my judgment, represent the chief executive’s biggest dereliction this year of his duty to 'preserve, protect, and defend' the Constitution, and to 'take care that the law be faithfully executed':”

1. Delay of Obamacare's Out-of-Pocket Caps. The Labor Department announced in February that it was delaying for a year the part of the health care law that limits how much people have to spend on their own insurance.
2. Delay of Obamacare's Employer Mandate. Delayed requirement that employers of at least 540 people provide complying insurance or pay a fine.
3. Delay of Obamacare's Insurance Requirements. Following millions of insurance cancellations, delayed requirement that people purchase Obamacare-approved insurance plans.
4. Exemption of Congress from Obamacare. The requirement that Congressmen and their staff get insurance on Obamacare exchanges was quietly 'reinterpreted' in August to allow Washington elite to maintain their generous congressional benefits instead.
5. Expansion of the Employer Mandate Penalty Through IRS Regulation. The law has no penalties for employers in states that don't set up health care exchanges, but so many states refused to create health care exchanges that IRS rewrote regulations to impose penalties on employers in non-participating states anyway.
6. Political Profiling by the IRS. IRS continued to target tax-exempt organizations (begun in 2010) that referenced any of the following in their missions:  Tea Party, Patriots, Israel, government spending, debt, taxes, Constitution, and Obamacare.
7. Outlandish Supreme Court Arguments. Between January 2012 and June 2013, the Supreme Court unanimously rejected the Justice Department's extreme positions 9 times in cases ranging from criminal procedure to property rights, religious liberty to immigration, securities regulation to tax law.
8. Recess Appointments. Obama appointed three members of the National Labor Relations Board, as well as the head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, while Senate was in session.
9. Assault on Free Speech and Due Process on College Campuses. The Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights created a national 'blueprint' for tackling sexual harassment that urges a crackdown on 'unwelcome' speech and requires complaints to be heard in quasi-judicial procedures that deny legal representation, encourage punishment before trail, and convict based on a mere "more likely than not" standard.
10. Mini-DREAM Act. President Obama, contradicting his own previous statements claiming to lack authority, directed the Department of Homeland Security to issue work and residence permits to the so-called Dreamers.