Posted on 06/26/2015 4:01:33 AM PDT by HomerBohn
Thanks to the Supreme Court’s willingness to make stuff up, Obamacare has been saved once again. In order to save Obamacare from utter disaster, Chief Justice Roberts essentially rewrote the law. If you are thinking that the Supreme Court is not supposed to do that, you would be right. But this is what our judicial system has devolved into. When I was in law school, I was horrified to discover that most judges in our country just do whatever they feel like doing. Instead of applying the law to the facts and coming to a fair and unbiased judgment, most judges in America just do whatever they want to do and then search for some law or case precedent that they can use to justify their decision. If there is no law or case precedent, some federal judges even go outside of the country to find justification for their absolutely ridiculous rulings. There have been instances where international law or international standards of morality have been cited as authority for a decision in a federal case. We have become a lawless land where the letter of the law no longer holds any real meaning, and where tyrannical judges just make stuff up out of thin air in order to advance their own personal political agendas.
This decision on Obamacare should have been quite straightforward for the court. The following is how Business Insider described the key issue in this case…
The case revolved around the interpretation of a phrase that stated that healthcare exchanges must be “established by the State” in order to receive tax credits. Scalia said that he was baffled that the majority of the justices could interpret this to mean that the federal government could give tax credits in states where exchanges weren’t established by the state.
“Words no longer have meaning if an Exchange that is not established by a State is ‘established by the State.’ It is hard to come up with a clearer way to limit tax credits to state Exchanges than to use the words ‘established by the State,’” Scalia said.
That sounds pretty basic, right?
“Established by the state” should mean “established by the state”?
In his dissent, Justice Antonin Scalia scolded the court for discarding all usual rules of interpretation in order to preserve Obamacare…
“Under all the usual rules of interpretation, in short, the government should lose this case. But normal rules of interpretation seem always to yield to the overriding principle of the present court: The Affordable Care Act must be saved.”
To say that Scalia was upset by this decision would be a massive understatement. He says that this ridiculous decision will be “remembered through the years” and that it sends a message that “the Supreme Court of the United States favors some laws over others, and is prepared to do whatever it takes to uphold and assist its favorites”…
“But this Court’s two decisions on the Act will surely be remembered through the years. The somersaults of statutory interpretation they have performed (‘penalty’ means tax, ‘further [Medicaid] payments to the State’ means only incremental Medicaid payments to the State, ‘established by the State’ means not established by the State) will be cited by litigants endlessly, to the confusion of honest jurisprudence. And the cases will publish forever the discouraging truth that the Supreme Court of the United States favors some laws over others, and is prepared to do whatever it takes to uphold and assist its favorites.”
Near the end of his dissent, he chided his fellow justices for rewriting Obamacare in order to save it, and he suggested that this law should now be referred to as “SCOTUScare”…
“This Court revised major components of the statute in order to save them from unconstitutionality.… We should start calling this law SCOTUScare.”
Normally, at the end of a dissenting opinion it is traditional for a Supreme Court justice to state “I respectfully dissent”.
But this time, Scalia simply ended with “I dissent”.
That may not seem like much to you, but in the legal world that is extremely significant.
Of course Obama was absolutely thrilled by this Obamacare decision. The following comes from CBS News…
President Obama commended a Supreme Court ruling that upheld a major portion of the Affordable Care Act on Thursday, hailing the decision as a vindication of his push for health care reform – and a clear signal to the law’s opponents that it’s time to give up the ghost.
“As the dust has settled, there can be no doubt this law is working,” the president said in a brief speech from the White House Rose Garden. “After multiple challenges to this law before the Supreme Court, the Affordable Care Act is here to stay. This morning, the court upheld a critical part of this law – the part that’s made it easier for Americans to afford health insurance no matter where you live.”
This all makes me very sad. Our law schools have become indoctrination centers for progressivism. Our law students are being taught that the U.S. Constitution is a “living, breathing document” and that courts should determine what the best end result of a case should be and then figure out the best way to justify that decision.
Our law schools are some of the most liberal institutions in the entire country. This is true even in the most “conservative” states. Over the past several decades, graduates of these law schools have flooded the legal system and now dominate the judiciary on every level.
Yes, we can elect a new president and many new members of Congress in 2016, but changing the judiciary would literally take generations to accomplish. That is why so many prominent voices are increasingly speaking out about “the tyranny of the judiciary”. We have hordes of activist judges running around doing pretty much anything that they feel like doing. It truly is a national crisis.
On a day to day basis, Barack Obama and Congress get a tremendous amount of criticism (and rightly so), but our judicial branch is also deeply, deeply corrupt and it would be much, much harder to fix.
Over the next few days, several more very important Supreme Court decisions will be announced. And without a doubt, we should expect to see the “justices” continue to make stuff up out of thin air.
If our founding fathers could see what was happened to the Supreme Court that they created, they would be rolling over in their graves.
If America is to be saved and we are to be spared from calamity as our enemies attack us while the nation is in such a state of disrepair, then a miracle must happen.
The rats who run and ruin this nation need to be removed and all legislation enacted by the lifers in Congress since 1912 needs to be scrapped. The system of courts in America then needs streamlining for the sake of clarity.
Roberts is either being blackmailed by the traitors, has always been a secret leftist, or he's crazy.
It now appears that our nation is over when we see patriotism outlawed, defending our borders and citizens unlawful and construed as racism or hate speech, being Christian or speaking against Islam.
Stalin and Hitler never dreamt of the advantages as enjoyed by the current crop of progressive socialists in Amerika.
What’s the new toll-free no. for the Michigan Militia? It must have changed since the mid-90’s...
The Supreme Court has been 'finding laws' where none exist, for quite some time.
The only difference in this case was how blatant it was.
I wonder how the Treasonists are doing this, are they paying off SCOTUS and Republicans to side with their Treason, are they using blackmail, threats? Is the Islamic enemy agent B. Hussein Obama threatening to have his Jihadi buddies behead them all? Something is definitely going on here as to why they would so eagerly agree to the destruction of this country.
The Supremes, led by Roberts, are trying their best to get a lower approval number than Congress. Both are doing their best in turning this formerly great country into a third-world pit.
Why hell, they've been doing that since at least 19773 . . . remember "penumbra" "privacy" , etc. that has led to at least 55,000 000 Americans being slaughtered in abortuaries.
A decision based upon a prior decision devolves and detaches truth and fact from the rules of moral court conduct.
People think that ballots are going to fix things. Not going to happen.
Federal law is violated every day. Examples: the speed limit, the entire Federal Statutes with numerous daily public examples of non-compliance (ignored by corporatists and those able to pay for the protection).
The entire federal apparat is using greater and greater force on the citizenry (does this sound familiar?) eating up the substance of the people in their daily lives. A judiciary that is part of the “lawmaking” now confirms we are no different than say Colombia, Venezuela, or any other 3rd world country, those notably with a judiciary aligned with an elite ruling class. The same monarchist rule that the young United States escaped to create a new free country that was to be more like Switzerland than say, the UK. This has become a socialist state, an involuntary association. A country run by mind numbed TV watching, welfare cheating, non-working proles (and the working equally unaware proles) ruled by an elite ruling class that makes up laws, not through the consent of the governed, but by fiat. Historically, every state that has gone through this— has fallen.
Our Rights are still described in our Constitution. If one believes in that Constitution (as that same govt. enshrines in museums and protects them as sacred, even as the corrupt judiciary violates their Oaths repeatedly), then one must accept what that document describes. Therein lie the answers.
This decision was a bad one.... but it was a decision about money. Healthcare stocks went up after the announcement. The next decision they’re going to drop on us is gay marriage.... that decision is about finishing the task of destroying the moral fabric of our country.
It’s appalling that six old decrepit people are allowed to make decisions that have no constitutional foundation and no semblance of logic or reason. It’s sadly disappointing that there are people who willingly and eagerly enforce those unconstitutional rulings. And it’s very depressing that Americans allow themselves to be so easily subjugated.
This country is rotting, like fish, from the top down. There are no one we call “LEADER” that isn’t corrupt. Our last bastion of defense against a totalitarian government, the SUPREME COURT, is just as corrupt as the other government entities. The election on 2016 is our last chance to take our country back from these corrupt politicians and justices. Should these corrupt politicians get re-elected, then we are headed for some very dark ages.
Remember now,
Sandra Day says it is wrong to criticize the judiciary.
Mookabookers that they are.
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