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Posted on 01/27/2012 9:29:00 PM PST by bsoile6
I'm an engineer, not a lawyer, so I would like to know legally how this scenario would play out - If the Supreme Court fails to carry out it's role and not strike down Obamacare, how does it get rectified with subsequent legislation such as if, say, Congress passed something like:
"No law, or regulation may compel any American citizen to engage in any form of economic activity."
Would this be another way to nullify the law? How do contradictory laws in this fashion get resolved?
Finally, if all else fails, what about the possible effectiveness of JOINING a campaign of civil disobedience to ignore Obamacare's requirements ACCOMPANIED by aggressively educating the populace of the right of Jury Nullification?
It sure does not look like the Republican part is interested in doing it. I just hope the Supreme Court does it. GO NEWT GO!
Republicans take the Senate and use the EXACT same Nuc option to kill it. Simple majority.
Of course massive widespread non-adherence to the law would involve complete denial to the IRS of any and all information.
Mark my words; Romney will NOT repeal Obamacare. Without either Santorum or Gingrich winning the White House, Obamacare will be the implemented permanent law of the land until the next full socialist government evolves it to full single payer socialist medicine.
You don’t need civil disobedience.
Just do your duty as a citizen. That’s all.
If the politicians thought anybody cared beyond their sugar daddy corporatist fascist partners, they’d listen. Or better yet, put candidates up for election who put the Constitution first.
Oh but that’s not possible since everyone wants a slave built ipad and their transnational corporation to be guaranteed income by the government.
I’m not a lawyer either, but I suspect that in the case of contradictory laws, the earlier one would take precedent. However, given sufficient legal grounds, presumably older laws could be challenged as unconstitutional and thereby replaced.
That said, since Obamacare is already being challenged this way in the SC, it seems extremely unlikely that a later challenge would make it out of local courts, let alone to the district courts.
If the individual mandate does not cause this abomination in its whole to be struck down, we are guaranteed to be permanent slaves to the federal government.
There are too many parasites to change this via the ballot box.
I wish I was mistaken. I sincerely doubt I am mistaken.
{we are guaranteed to be permanent slaves to the federal government}
You are already unless you are living completely off the grid in some untamed wilderness. I doubt there are any true mountain men anymore or they would have found Bigfoot {:-)
On the other hand........
The main problem is the sweeping authority given to the Secretary. She in effect defines each and every provision. In effect she has plenary authority over the medical sector.
Generally the statutory language used to accomplish the objective you described starts: “Notwithstanding any other provision of law or regulation ...”
Society requires a certain amount of “give”, and that is acceptable to a point.
Although that point was passed a long time ago, the progression is accelerating at an alarming rate and the increasing boldness of the federal government reflects that.
Unfortunately, they understand human nature all too well.
Welcome.
Yep - Republicans can “deem it to have NOT been passed”. I would love to hear the screeching from the original “deemers” about how wrong that is....
It wouldn’t surprise the Dems at all. Understand that the agenda is to destroy the Constitution. The fact that it has gone unchallenged when it should have been for 85 years is the point. Now precedent is setting law.
I found this posted on an earlier thread. It is 10 minutes long and if you can bear to watch more than 5 minutes of it without getting irate, I’ll be greatly surprised.
http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=HcBaSP31Be8&vg=medium
bsoile6
Since Jan 27, 2012
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