There is no way that the Justices can parse through all the provisions in the 2,700-page law to determine which ones are dependent upon the presumably unconstitutional individual mandate.
Yeah, They’ll read it over lunch break.
I know it will never happen but I’d love to see a law in place that requires all senators and representatives to take a written test on any piece of legislation before they are able to vote “yes” on it. And such test should have at least 5 questions per page of new law.
That means the test on this one would be 13,500 questions.
If you don’t get a 75%, you can’t vote “yes”.
(Can’t vote FOR something if you don’t know WHAT the something is.)
This would be a good opening for the court to tell congress to pass bills that are easily understandable - otherwise they will be overturned.
LOL That's the polite way of saying "are you out of your tiny little minds?"
ANY discussion of keeping the Act if the mandate is stricken is DISTURBING because the Democrats designed it as "all or nothing" so it could be passed in Congress. The Dems can't have their cake and eat it too.
The SCOTUS upholding the Act under any circumstances is UNCONSTITUTIONAL because the mandate is UNCONSTITUTIONAL.
IF THE SCOTUS TURNS THEMSELVES INTO LAW MAKERS INSTEAD OF JUDGES OF THE EXISTING LAW, THEY'RE MAKING A MISTAKE OF MONUMENTAL PROPORTIONS.
The Govt’s answer....”Of course not Mr. Bond I expect you to die”
To paraphrase Nancy Pelosi:
“Obviously, we’ll have to vote against it because we don’t know what’s in it.”
I habitually refer to O as a card-board-cutout president, a place-holder president, and I’m not really being facetious. He is not a real president, he is an actor reading a script.
But the fact is that congress has been debased to the same status. They passed laws they didn’t write and didn’t read. That is deeply shocking by itself. Having passed it into law they still don’t know whats in it nor have they any interest in finding out.
And having passed it they have unleashed a regulation-writer over whom they have no control and over whom they seek no control. Again, a shocking dereliction of duty.
This is not a congress, its a pantomime congress serving a pantomime president. If the Supremes don’t throw out this fraudulent waste of paper they have reduced themselves to a pantomime court and our republic to a sad and tragic joke.
My apologies for not having html of these transcripts available. The PDFs came from the Supreme Court, and I was able to convert them to epubs, but my attempts at converting to html was simply too damned messy to publish. If you've got an ebook reader, the epub files work pretty well.
Wednesday - (pdf) (epub) (I'll post Wednesday when I get it)
What I want to know is, why the heck none of these legal geniuses have raised the point that the only reason hospitals are required to provide this service, is because congress passed a law forcing them to do so. So, because congress created this problem, now for some reason it is ok for congress to 'solve' this problem by massively expanding the scope of government. How about, if they are so concerned with the costs, they simply repeal the law that is causing the problem? Rather than burden us with another 2700 pages of legislation, how about remove a page or two instead?
Of course, doing something like that wouldn't increase the size and scope of government, which is their real aim. It has nothing, really, to to with health care, but everything to do with raw power.
/rant
Well it’d be nice if SOMEONE in the Federal chain responsible for this ongoing nightmare read it.
House? Nope. Senate? No. POTUS? Naw. Supremes? Hell no!