Posted on 03/18/2010 5:33:01 PM PDT by Tuxedo
So, assuming the Senate Bill gets passed under the following scenarios - what is the likelihood of intervention?
Yeas/Nays - bill passes. I would suppose the first challenge would be the Constitutionality of requiring Citizens to purchase a service violates the Commerce Clause (see Seminole Tribe v. Florida) as the Federal Government cannot supercede sovereignty of the States. Further, there can be challenges filed by various State Attorneys General on the basis of the Tenth Amendment. Given this, I would presume that a Federal Judge (preferably a Strict-Constructionalist) can stay the Law. This would then get appealed and certainly make its way to the USSC. Can that be delayed until November?
Should the Slaughterhouse Rule be used to deem the bill passed, we already know The Landmark Legal Foundation will file suit that the law violates Article 1, Section 7 of the US Constitution. I presume a stay would be granted and the matter making its way to the USSC.
Given knowledge of precedence and case law, what do you think would be the outcome?
Should the matter not be settled favorably, a takeover of the House (Senate won't matter as much) can result in Republicans denying funding for Obamacare and adding its repeal into every bill passed. I realize that part of the Bill says it cannot be repealed, but to me that is just semantics.
Well said. This is indeed scary. I hear the talk-radio hosts whipping us up (and it is working - I get so pissed off driving listening to Quinn and Rose, Rush, Levin, and Mike Church that I can’t stand it). A few Governors (Rick Perry et al) have also been posturing. Just think we all seemed so united right after 9/11. I pray we don’t have to experience another such event to wake this country up again.
I wouldn’t think Nullification would constitute and act of war or hostility. Just an assertion of the language in the 10th Amendment is all... The number of hard-core lefties in the country that would even support a military action of this nature would be less than 10%, I’d say.
Well, I know. But, until a USSC ruling, which could take some time, the requirement would not be there in the (many?) states which decided so. Would not that be problematic for the whole bill?
Yes, I think that would basically unravel the whole bill, plus each state’s action would have to be taken up separately. Could take a long time.
Three possible constitutional challenges:
1. All bills that raise revenue - even one penny [no ifs, ors, buts, except fors, etc.] MUST originate in the HOUSE. This bill produces revenue to the government and originated in the Senate.
2. Every Bill shall have passed both the House of Representatives and the Senate. In Clinton v. City of New York, Justice John Paul Stevens extended this to mean passing the same bill WITH the EXACT SAME text. The “Slaughter Rule” adds language.
3. In ALL cases, the votes shall be determined by Yeas and Nays, and the Names of the Persons voting for and against the Bill shall be entered on the Journal of each House respectively. The House doesn’t want to do this ...
United States Constitution:
Article I:
Section 7: Revenue Bills, Legislative Process, Presidential Veto
” ... All bills for raising Revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives; but the Senate may propose or concur with Amendments as on other Bills.
Every Bill which shall have passed the House of Representatives and the Senate, shall, before it become a Law, be presented to the President of the United States; If he approve he shall sign it, but if not he shall return it, with his Objections to that House in which it shall have originated, who shall enter the Objections at large on their Journal, and proceed to reconsider it. If after such Reconsideration two thirds of that House shall agree to pass the Bill, it shall be sent, together with the Objections, to the other House, by which it shall likewise be reconsidered, and if approved by two thirds of that House, it shall become a Law. But in all such Cases the Votes of both Houses shall be determined by Yeas and Nays, and the Names of the Persons voting for and against the Bill shall be entered on the Journal of each House respectively. If any Bill shall not be returned by the President within ten Days (Sundays excepted) after it shall have been presented to him, the Same shall be a Law, in like Manner as if he had signed it, unless the Congress by their Adjournment prevent its Return, in which Case it shall not be a Law.
Every Order, Resolution, or Vote to which the Concurrence of the Senate and House of Representatives may be necessary (except on a question of Adjournment) shall be presented to the President of the United States; and before the Same shall take Effect, shall be approved by him, or being disapproved by him, shall be repassed by two thirds of the Senate and House of Representatives, according to the Rules and Limitations prescribed in the Case of a Bill ...”
Congressman Billybob
Civil War may be the best outcome left available.
I would like to think the 10th is still in there, but the courts and the 17th have neutered the States. The Republic is long gone.
I forgot about the first line in Article 1 Section 7. Not sure how the USSC will react on that. Looks cut and dry.
Mark has been speaking about this tonight. He also said:
TO TRANSFORM THIS NATION, YOU NEED TO HAVE PERMISSION OF THE GOVERNED!
We know this but show me one person in DC who knows it. Let’s make that into a bumper sticker.....
Anything Congress passes Congress can repeal, no matter what its wording.
Correct as usual. Looks like the Yeas/Nays won’t be there and they intend to actually shred the Constitution on live TV.
Republicans will not vote to deny salaries to bureaucrats and apparatchiks who have already been hired by the many thousands.
There is existing precedence from a 1950's case (that I cannot recall the name of right) now where the US Supreme Court held that a citizen may not be compelled by the government to enter into a private contract (e.g. enter into a contract with a Health Insurance company). That jibes with the commercial code as I understand it (IANAL) and the Supremes are really big on Stare Decisis so I'll wager that requirement gets tossed pretty quickly.
However, my big fear is that they understand this and have planned for it and will then use that as an excuse to set up single payer government system that we can be forced to deal with.
And therein lies the rub - do we trust the Republicans to do what is right - or are they just trying to get reelected and increase their power base? Did they learn their lessons from 2006 and 2008? I see that the people retaking the government by force may be the only real recourse in the long run.
Yes, we must not lose sight of their Endgame.
Cannot be repealed part is unconstitutional. It would be equivalent to amending the Constitution and stripping the law-making powers of the Congress.
Good point
Thanks TYR.
Placing trust in:
1. President
2. Congress
3. Courts and/or
4. State politicians
makes as much sense as swimming in horse manure. In both cases, you covered with s#!t.
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