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Obamacare threatens to end John Roberts’s dream of a nonpartisan Supreme Court
The Washington Post ^ | 3/1/2015 | Robert Barnes

Posted on 03/01/2015 10:54:57 AM PST by Beave Meister

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To: Beave Meister

After the contortions Roberts went through to rewrite it and find it Constitutional he is not going to undo it at this point.

He is already compromised.


21 posted on 03/01/2015 12:05:14 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace- No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Cowboy Bob

That’s Assuming the candidates they choose are confirmed and that’s assuming the the current cast of characters doesn’t lose the Senate which by their performance so far doesn’t look promising.


22 posted on 03/01/2015 12:09:21 PM PST by ripnbang ("An armed man is a citizen, an unarmed man a subject")
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To: Beave Meister; All
Thank you for referencing that article Beave Meister. Please bear in mind that the following critique is directed at the article and not at you.

The author of the refenced article is evidently clueless about the federal government’s constitutionally limited powers, and therefore conseqently oblivious to a major constitutional scandal, imo, by activist justices including Roberts, in giving the green light to Obamacare.

More specifically, not only have the states never delegated to the corrupt feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to regulate, tax and spend for intrastate healthcare purposes, but the Supreme Court has repeatedly clarified, evidenced by the excerpts from case opinions below, that the feds have no constitutional authority to stick their big noses into intrastate healthcare issues.

Regarding the Obamacare insurance mandate for example, note the fourth entry in the list from Paul v. Virginia. That entry indicates that the Court essentially clarified that the feds have no constitutional authority to regulate insurance policies, regardless if such policies are negotiated across state borders.

Also, regardless that federal Democrats and RINOs will argue that if the Constitution doesn’t say that they can’t do something then they can do it, the Supreme Court has addressed that foolish idea too. Politically correct interpretations of the Constitution's Supremacy Clause aside, the Court has clarified in broad terms that powers not delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to regulate intrastate healthcare in this case, are prohibited to the feds.

”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.

23 posted on 03/01/2015 12:14:04 PM PST by Amendment10
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To: Beave Meister
That decision revealed that Roberts is, in fact, a moron.

It also proved that even an abject moron can have impressive credentials (something that honest, intelligent people have known all along).

24 posted on 03/01/2015 12:23:55 PM PST by Savage Beast (“During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.” George Orwell)
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To: Beave Meister

Propaganda from the Washington Post to influence Roberts.


25 posted on 03/01/2015 1:16:38 PM PST by WashingtonSource
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To: Amendment10

Good read. Proves that Robert’s opinion was authored by first year pre-law student


26 posted on 03/01/2015 1:22:33 PM PST by Cyman (We have to pass it to see what's in it= definition of stool sample)
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To: Beave Meister

“Obamacare threatens to end John Roberts’s dream of a nonpartisan Supreme Court”

Obamacare is selling U.S. body mortgages globally.

Human trafficking.


27 posted on 03/01/2015 1:26:23 PM PST by Varsity Flight (Extortion-Care is is the Government Work-Camp: Arbeitsziehungslager)
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To: jospehm20

It’s been partisan since its creation.


28 posted on 03/01/2015 1:26:52 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: Beave Meister

Obamacare needs to be put to bed for good. It will go down as the biggest mistake in the Donkey’s history.

Remove the word care then replace “it” with Obama... remove “the Donkey’s” and I think it makes more sense.


29 posted on 03/01/2015 1:27:17 PM PST by maddog55
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To: Beave Meister

Bipartisan. I hate that word. I want partisanship. I want the conservatives to play hardball like the liberals do. Take every dirty nasty trick the liberals use and shove it right back in their faces.


30 posted on 03/01/2015 1:35:36 PM PST by Organic Panic
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"Proves that Robert’s opinion was authored by first year pre-law student"

Based on what I understand about Harvard Law School where Roberts went, people who attend that school are at least hopefully having somebody else pay for their indoctrination.

31 posted on 03/01/2015 1:35:49 PM PST by Amendment10
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To: Cowboy Bob

Can you imagine the Supreme Court after 8 years of President Walker and 8 Years of President Cruz?


Dare I??? How great the world would be.....


32 posted on 03/01/2015 1:37:31 PM PST by Yaelle
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To: lee martell

The guys is trapped for another decade or so til he last kid is 18.


33 posted on 03/01/2015 1:38:19 PM PST by Yaelle
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To: Beave Meister

Roberts is not a constitutionalist; he is a NWO globalist member of Knights of Malta. 0-care is an instrument of the elites, and its purpose is to destroy the middle class via taxation, and control the population via medical tyranny (death panels, forced vaccinations).
Roberts will uphold 0-care in its present form.


34 posted on 03/01/2015 1:49:12 PM PST by grumpygresh (Democrats & GOPe delenda est. President zero gave us patient zero.)
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To: Beave Meister

The Supreme Court hasn’t been nonpartisan for decades.


35 posted on 03/01/2015 1:50:08 PM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: Cowboy Bob

Cruz and Walker are weak.
They will accomplish nothing adequate.


36 posted on 03/01/2015 5:41:02 PM PST by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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37 posted on 03/01/2015 6:46:13 PM PST by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not A Matter of Opinion)
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To: dsc

Who, in your opinion, is strong?


38 posted on 03/01/2015 9:03:30 PM PST by Cowboy Bob (Isn't it funny that Socialists never want to share their own money?)
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To: Beave Meister
Roberts was the only member of the court to endorse the entire jerry-rigged thing...and when not even that was enough, he took it upon himself to become part of the legislature and rewrote a portion of the bill, changing a fine to a tax, to make sure the whole Rube-Goldberg creation didn't collapse......
39 posted on 03/01/2015 9:12:03 PM PST by Intolerant in NJ
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To: aquila48
The Founders wisely understood that there were certain human behaviors (”rights”) that a simple majority should not be allowed to forcefully restrict - among them beliefs, speech, protecting yourself and others as enumerated in the constitution.

No rights were addressed by Roberts, only corporate privileges. He even said so in his ruling, and warned people to get it straight or they would be wrongly empowering a police state against themselves.

One Stone, Two Powers: How Chief Justice Roberts Saved America

40 posted on 03/01/2015 9:27:53 PM PST by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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