Posted on 06/29/2011 11:05:59 AM PDT by Recovering_Democrat
A federal appeals court in Cincinnati on Wednesday upheld the health-care law passed by Congress last year, saying the law's requirement for most Americans to carry insurance or pay a penalty is constitutional.
The vote was 2-1 on the three-judge panel on the key question of whether the insurance requirement exceeded Congress's powers under the Commerce Clause of the U.S. Constitution. The majority concluded that it did not.
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coughbullsh!tcough
Only SCOTUS is going to decide this one.
Does anyone know: is this the Michigan case?
Our founding fathers never intended for this ping-pong game in the courts. This has GOT TO STOP.
Yes.
Founding fathers are constantly rolling in their graves under this bogus administration and liberal/commie courts.
Let me guess, 2 democrat nominees and one republican.
She wrote the opinion. Enough said.
Judge Boyce F. Martin, appointed by former President Jimmy Carter, wrote for the majority in the 2-1 ruling. A George W. Bush appointee concurred; a Ronald Reagan appointee who is a U.S. district judge in Columbus sitting on the panel disagreed.
Jefferson, Adams and Franklin, at least, are rolling over in their graves. What was supposed to be a judicial system that enforced and decided cases based on THE WRITTEN LAW has turned into a political activism machine, ignoring the law to suit, and interpreting it to meet political objectives.
What a sad time for our once great American republic.
This is all just a sideshow. The SCOTUS is the last word and I’m looking for a 5-4 decision that at least throws out the individual mandate.
No, I’ve decided that I’m not going to do it.
The judges, scotus, obama, and the rest of the government can go fvck itself.
I will never obey.
Only the whimsical Anthony Kennedy is going to decide this one.
Only the whimsical Anthony Kennedy is going to decide this one.
Shows ya how far the levels of idiocy reach in the Fed Judiciary
Got a bigger picture of that there green generator Sarg?
A GW Bush appointee approved rape of the populace under the commerce clause.
Proving once again that W was a piece of crap president and sure as hell no conservative, look at the crap he put on the bench.
"On the road to tyranny, we've gone so far that polite
political action is about as useless as a miniskirt in a convent."
yes it’s the Michigan case.
This is so perverse. How can any judge at the Federal level, who is supposed to understand the intent of the Constitution, interpret the Commerce Clause, of all things, as a loophole that somehow allows for the unlimited expansion of Federal authority?
As the dissenting judge notes: “If the exercise of power is allowed and the mandate upheld, it is difficult to see what the limits on Congress’s Commerce Clause authority would be,” Graham wrote. “What aspect of human activity would escape federal power?”
Carter: still f*cking us up from beyond the political grave since 1981!
At the speed the founders must be rolling over, surely there is some way to wrap them in copper wire and use them to generate electricity.
Any and all federal judges that vote to uphold the individuals mandate are in violation of their oath and should be impeached.
Next they will say shoving people into ovens is okay under the Commerce Clause, if it reduces costs and is in the general welfare.
Tritors. Impeach and remove them all.
A Carter judge and a G.W. Bush judge.
Bush is among the worst presidents in American history, that is a fact.
Maybe they’re the reason for all the earthquakes lately.
The super wealthy insiders in the corrupt insurance industry, paid off the judges and government politicians, are partying tonight!
If they don't pay, fine them, jail them or seize their assets.
Ya know where this is going.
By law, they will force you to pay or else.
No joke.
The majority are donkey headed flatulence laden pond scum snarfing pox ridden sons of whores.
It was interesting that the George W. appointee clerked for Scalia, and wrote essentially that plaintiffs had not put on a sufficient case. He stated that the ruling did not preclude “individual” actions by other plaintiffs after the mandate is effective and it becomes clear how it affects particular individuals.
Gwjack
wow...and that’s their good points
Bull. He put Alito on SCOTUS, replacing that dolt Sandra Day O'Connor. She, a Reagan appointee, did more damage than this clown on the Sixth Circuit.
I think it’s time we consider what we are going to do if the Supreme Court does uphold this. I personally think at that point, it will time for some Civil Disobediance. The idea I have is, regardless of whether you have health insurance or not, when you get to the section on the 1040 where you must provide you insurance information or calculate your fine, Take out a black magic marker and block out the entire section, like on a redacted document. Don’t write anything, just a huge black filled in box over the section and any other lines that reference penalties regarding health insurance. I guarantee, someone WILL see it because it will be kicked out of the IRS’s automated form readers (also causing them huge headaches and backlogs hand processing the returns). Of course if only a few hundred or thousand people do this, probably all you will end up with is an audit. But if even a couple million did this it would certainly send a message.
I’m not advocating violence, but if the Civil War II kicks off in my lifetime, I will make it my personal goal to bring some of these liberal judges to justice.
I’m thinking if Social Security and Medi-Care are legal to subtract from your check then so will be Health Insurance. Any other ruling would put the entire socialist machine at risk.
Slowly gnawing away the Constitution.
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I say we all by powdered wigs and black robes. Then we make our own decision as to the application of The Constitution.
Can you imagine that - hundreds of people showing up dressed as Citizen Judges to protest.
Bush put us trillions more in debt, created new entitlements bankrupting us, and has brought Iran far more power in its region, allowed the banks to nearly destroy the world economy with leveraged derivative on fraudulent debt instruments. His putting some good judges on the bench does not erase the stench, there are plenty of bad ones. But we can leave that for another thread.
DICK-TATERS all.
Need legal eagle help here...what are the predictive steps from here to SCOTUS for this? I’m not legal-savvy enough to predict nor explain this...any help out there would be appreciated.
Wasn't that after Harriet Miers withdrew under pressure from everyone with a brain?
Good guess. You were very close. One Dem, one RINO, and a Republican.
Bump that. Bush did generally very well in judge appointments. Thanks for the reminder about O'Conner, who was a terrible selection by Reagan. Alito is a vastly better Justice. Reagan made mostly great picks, but this one was not one of them.
This was a three-judge panel. The decision can be appealed to an en banc hearing of the entire Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit. And, of course, this will ultimately be decided by the U.S. Supreme Court.
He put Alito on SCOTUS
Wasn’t that after Harriet Miers withdrew under pressure from everyone with a brain?
Bush was a great war-time-president. It ends there.
He spent us into oblivion, greased the skids for Obama by not communicating to the American people and created a vacuum and tin ear to the people with the excuse that the MSM drove him nuts. So what, one can learn from Reagan and talk over the MSM, but he chose not to...a lot because the high brow Carl Rove had too much of his ear. Rove and Bush are pushing Huntsman if that tells you anything.
Spot-on thanks!
No,Bush was a great pro-life president as well.
Don’t hold back now! You know it’s bad to keep feelings bottled up inside!
The only way to make this stop...unfortunately...
is for there to be a refusal to buy health insurance by everyone. Yes, everyone.
The statement that needs to be made is that health insurance is optional and not a requirement in our modern society.
My opinion too.
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