Soon-to-be former president, Barack Obama, in the waning days of his tenure, is behaving like the dictator he’s always aspired to be. From backdoor gun control targeted at some Social Security recipients, to poking Israel and Russia in a last-ditch effort to start a conflict that President-elect Trump would inherit, Obama is showing his true colors. And none of them are red, white, and blue or aimed at expanding our freedoms. So what’s the newest agenda item his radical leftist, and increasingly totalitarian, base is begging him to impose (there’s even a petition on whitehouse.gov, doncha know)? Forcing the filling of the irreplaceable Justice Antonin Scalia’s seat, that’s what:

Obama Can & Should Put Merrick Garland on Supreme Court

Can appoint nominee to the SCOTUS on January 3, 2017 Recesshttps://t.co/9P6gAtePgd

— Jon Smyth (@JonSmyth01) January 2, 2017

Sure. Because they “earned” it, according to the Huffington Post. By winning the popular vote, I suspect. Perhaps a “President of California” participation trophy should be awarded to Mrs. Clinton. But I digress…

So what’s their newest scheme? This: if Obama continues his pen-wielding tendencies, during the few moments when the 114th Congress is gaveled out, and the 115th gaveled in today, he could tread all over Donald Trump’s SCOTUS pick. From Fox News Insider:

Due to a somewhat arcane procedural period in the Senate, President Obama may have one final opportunity to see Judge Merrick Garland, his 2016 nominee to the Supreme Court, be put on the bench.

During the “intersession recess”, the moment or so [just before noon] between the time the presiding officer of the Senate gavels-out the 114th Congress and gavels-in the 115th, Obama may be able to exercise his ‘recess appointment’ powers and place Garland on the court, the Washington Times reported.

However, such a move could be legally complicated.

The real reason President Obama won't recess-appoint Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court https://t.co/E6HeJGYzye @VolokhC

— Jonathan H. Adler (@jadler1969) December 29, 2016

So is it outside the realm of possibility that Mr. Obama would trample all over the voices of the people, our representatives, and democracy itself? Again? In a word: no. Why? Because he’s already tried it. Remember this?

Fortunately for us, we remain a Constitutional Republic, and the Supreme Court—in a 9-0 vote that included Justice Scalia himself—unceremoniously smacked Mr. Obama down.

While the president can indeed make ‘recess appointments’ to various positions when the legislature is not in session, the Supreme Court voted unanimously in 2014 to overturn several of Obama’s 2012 appointees made during a recess.

The court considered Congress in-session at the time, therefore preempting any executive action.

Still, that tidbit of history wouldn’t stop Captain Penwielder. Why? Because he’s already shown his affinity for shamelessly throwing up major roadblocks for the incoming Trump administration. See masses of new EPA regs, major land grabs, and oil drilling bans for further proof. Along with all the other intentional obstructions, another bastardized “recess” appointment—which, mind you, would only be temporary according to the Washington Times, but long enough to certainly muff things up for the foreseeable future—would lob an additional monkey wrench into the spokes of a Trump administration. It’s already inheriting a mountainous mess left for it by the Obama regime.

So, will Barack Obama continue brandishing his mighty pen like Kim Jong Un with a better haircut? Or will he behave himself and allow the incoming president to nominate Justice Scalia’s replacement? I put precisely nothing past this man. He’s shown us who he is throughout the past eight years, and significantly in recent weeks by ramping up his writing of EO’s and regulations. His presidency is, and has always been, an assault on America, her culture, and our individual liberties. Let’s hope we make it past noon Eastern today without any more surprises, at least on the SCOTUS front. But I wouldn’t hold my breath. Just ask an average Israeli—whom Mr. VotePresent made sitting ducks of last month—how reasonable and respectful they find Mr. Obama.