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Posted on 08/15/2011 4:54:58 PM PDT by PROCON
(Reuters) - The legal fate of President Barack Obama's signature healthcare law will likely come down to two Republican appointees on the U.S. Supreme Court -- Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Anthony Kennedy.
That would be a familiar role for Kennedy, a moderate conservative who often has cast the decisive vote on the most contentious issues before the nine-member high court divided between conservative and liberal factions.
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If congress has the power to force people to buy health insurance, they can cure the recession and the housing crunch by forcing people to buy houses. Just think of how much economic activity (and JOBS!) the US would have if every citizen bought one/two houses per year.
In other words:
“Hey Commie kooks. These are the two judges you need to harass.”
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I dont either. I think it all comes down to Kennedy.
NO way will Roberts uphold this mandate...no way...now that lizbo can’t be any part of this....this would be one huge conflict of interest....
If you think that she-he is gonna recuse itself, you have another thing coming. These are fascists we are dealing with. They care neither for fairness or the rule of law, only power.
The Constitution says whatever 5 out of 9 Supreme Court Justices say it says.
Breyer, Ginsburg, Sotomayor and Kagan will all vote to uphold 0bamacare. Thomas, Scalia, Alito and Roberts will all vote to throw it out.
The deciding vote will be Kennedy. He will decide based on whatever he thinks will make him look best in the history books (most of which are written by liberal academicians).
Be afraid. Be very afraid.
Counsel representing the Administration in these cases has gotten their backsides handed to them on the individual mandate argument. There simply is no precedent for compelling citizens to purchase a product.
I doubt that even the addled Justice Kennedy can find sufficient precedent for such a dangerous idea.
When the SCOTUS decision comes down, we can count on it being 5-4 -- with Kennedy representing the 5.
For the past twenty years-or-so, it can be said that the law is what Anthony Kennedy says it is.
“There simply is no precedent for compelling citizens to purchase a product.”
I believe the Militia Act of 1792 sets a precedent in that it required men to provide themselves with a firearm, etc.
But that was limited and can be traced back to the Constitution. That’s not true of Obama Care.
How can anyone allow Elena Kagan to even be within 3 miles of this decision?
She, Breyer, Sotomayor and Ginsberg are committed Communists who vote with terror, the UN or anything that makes America weaker. The best thing would be when President Perry appoints two new conservatives when Sotomayor kicks and when Buzzy Ginsberg retires due to bad health.
I think this will come down to Kennedy.
You mean President Palin.
if the justices do the right thing and throw it out, will it end up helping Soetoro?
No.
“The “experts” think Chief Justice Roberts will vote to uphold the individual mandate, I don’t think he will.”
If he does he will condemn the Bush administration for appointing him yet anther tyrannical abomination in a black robe grasping for limitless federal power.
Also if they do its a simple matter to do 2 things:
1: Mandate that all required insurance plans not cover procedures likely to be used by liberals or individuals who engage in leftist activities, by means of prohibiting reimbursement to doctors that do provide theses services to theses people. “because the doctor might simply charge more for their other services”
Start with obvious things like denying coverage to drug addicts. “To Save money”
Also prohibit coverage for abortion, birth-control, STD’s, ect.. again to “save money in the long run”
Also anyone who has ever been found to have engaged in theses “health risky” activity loses all possibility of coverage down the line for a long list of “potential resulting conditions.”
Call this the “personal responsibility and financial accountability mandate”.
The left insisted upon giving the Federal Government this tyranical power. Now let feel the pain, Let them suffer and die as a result!
Indeed as we are trying to control the cost of health care and we have this limitless power, we “must be justified” in denying them the possibility to even buy these services on their own.
2: Mandate the buying of “political insurance” from a goverment mandated pool which of course consist exclusively of republican party supporters.
One way or anther I won’t comply and I will defend my right not to comply with this abhorrent Unconstitutional usurpation of our rights.
A man has the right not to buy a service A man has a right to provided for his basic needs himself. The federal Government has no right to force a man to buy anyone elses services!
Healthcare for thousands of years in even the Western tradition has been a religious affair. The services payed for by the “approved list” do not
Besides if a man can be forced to buy a private service by the Federal Government then then Big Business really will have enslaved us thou the Force of the Federal goverment.
I’ve been saying for a while Anthony Kennedy is the most powerful man in America, aside from the usurper President.
The really dangerous part is most people don’t notice it.
Wild in the streets coming strong.
Don’t you think that business will boom once that albatross is remove
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