Did John Boehner VIOLATE THE LAW By Inviting Netanyahu to Address Congress?

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19. So, what is to be gained?....

"....Without consulting with the president or the Democrats in Congress, Boehner invited the leader of a foreign power, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, to address a joint session of Congress. There is no love lost between Netanyahu and President Obama. Netanyahu will no doubt rip into the president when he speaks on March 3.

That appears to be Boehner's purpose. "There is no other explanation for Boehner's impetuous, insulting and dangerous decision this week to break foreign policy protocol and invite Netanyahu," editorialized the Chicago Sun-Times.

Boehner's move could have been taken straight from the tea-party playbook, based on the view that Barack Obama is not legitimately the leader of the nation. Therefore, the powers given by the Constitution to the president to conduct the foreign policy of the United States can be ignored. The speaker can posture as the alternative commander-in-chief because the man who actually has that responsibility doesn't deserve the title...."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/joe-cirincione/how-boehner-bungled-his-b_b_6534378.html

As Max Fisher notes:

This is not just a breach of protocol: it's a very real problem for American foreign policy.The Supreme Court has codified into law the idea that only the president is allowed to make foreign policy, and not Congress,because if there are two branches of government setting foreign policy then America effectively has two foreign policies.

http://www.vox.com/2014/11/3/7146097/zivotofsky-jerusalem-israel-supreme-court-explainer

Fisher warns that the fact that "a US political party is siding with a foreign country over their own president... is extremely unusual and a major break with the way that foreign relations usually work." This is dangerous business that could "lead to chaos" as other nations misread America's true intentions.