Republican to Sue Obama Over Health Law

House Republicans are going forward with plans to sue President Barack Obama and will base their legal case on the sweeping health care law he championed and they despise.

Speaker John Boehner said the suit, which also highlights an ironic Obamacare twist, will follow the argument Obama violated the Constitution by circumventing Congress and alone delaying the law's requirement for businesses to provide coverage.

"In 2013, the President changed the health care law without a vote of Congress, effectively creating his own law by literally waiving the employer mandate and the penalties for failing to comply with it," Boehner said in a statement.

"That's not the way our system of government was designed to work. No president should have the power to make laws on his or her own," he added.

The Republican-led House is expected to vote on a resolution authorizing legal action against the President over Obamacare at the end of the month, just before lawmakers head home for August to campaign for midterm votes.

Boehner then is expected to hire attorneys to actually file the suit in federal court. But the timing of that is unclear.

The Rules Committee plans to hold a hearing on the matter with outside legal experts.

White House calls it a 'stunt'

The White House expressed disappointment in a statement, saying Boehner and Republicans are wasting time and taxpayer resources on a "political stunt."

"As the President said today, he is doing his job -- lawsuit or not -- and it's time Republicans in Congress did theirs," the statement said.