Posted on 03/30/2012 11:27:32 AM PDT by BradtotheBone
Democrats are fuming over Justice Antonin Scalia’s conduct during this week’s Supreme Court deliberations on President Obama’s healthcare law.
While several of the high court’s liberal justices seemed to cheerlead for its defense, Scalia appeared hostile to the law, an attitude that rubbed some Democrats the wrong way.
Scalia mocked the so-called “Cornhusker Kickback” without seeming to know that provision was stripped out of the law two years ago.
Scalia also joked that the task of having to review the complex bill violated the Eighth Amendment’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment.
“You really want us to go through these 2,700 pages?” he quipped. “Is this not totally unrealistic, that we are going to go through this enormous bill item by item and decide each one?”
The comments did not sit well with Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.), a member of the Gang of 14, which in 2005 established guidelines for considering judicial nominees.
“I am concerned that Justice Scalia’s comments call into question his impartiality and instead suggest judicial activism,” Nelson said.
Nelson was taken aback by Scalia’s suggestion that reading the law was too much to expect of justices ruling on its constitutionality.
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Except that's not what Scalia was referring to -- he was talking about the justices (or their staff) having to go through line by line to decide what could be kept vs discarded if the individual mandate is removed. And the point is that the USSC should do that -- that's what Congress should do.
What about Kagan’s comment that all the law is, is the feds throwing the states a boatload of money for poor people.
Senator Kickback, let he who read the bill before voting for it cast the first stone.
” Dear Ben Nelson
Justice Kagan coached the Solicitor General. Ruth Bader Ginsburg helped.
Do you have any concerns about their impartiality?
Screw you.
Sincerely
trappedincanuckistan”
Too darned polite, if you ask me..
Ben Nelson’s vote is the whole reason the friggin’ thing even passed. You have insulted scumbags everywhere....
If the justices are having a preliminary vote today, that must mean that by this evening the White House will know how it went thanks to Obama's mole Kagan.
The publication must be named "The Swill".
Yes, and I suspect the comments coming out of the White House the last two days belie the downward trajectory of the bill.
HOWEVER, I expect the Obama White House to implement the law anyways, by decree and fiat.
Nothing will stop this sociopathic Marxist, certainly not a few men in robes.
Their arrogance over this mandate is seriously undermining our country and
the court needs to take a bullwhip to every verse of it.
Dear Republicans,
These comments present a priceless opportunity. Please use them.
Sincerely,
msv
“Scalia mocked the so-called “Cornhusker Kickback” without seeming to know that provision was stripped out of the law two years ago.”
I heard him say this. It was specifically in reference to whether or not the law would have been passed without arm twisting and corruption, (he used other words). The answer is that it wouldn’t have passed without it.
“Scalia mocked the so-called “Cornhusker Kickback” without seeming to know that provision was stripped out of the law two years ago.”
I heard him say this. It was specifically in reference to whether or not the law would have been passed without arm twisting and corruption, (he used other words). The answer is that it wouldn’t have passed without it.
I suspect what we were hearing was Scalia bristling at the fact that Kagan and the Wise Latina were so openly and brazenly political in cheerleading for the thing.
Scalia’s comment concerned sevrability and what comuld remain standing, and not constitutionality!!!
>>>If the justices are having a preliminary vote today, that must mean that by this evening the White House will know how it went thanks to Obama’s mole Kagan<<<
Good catch.
Obama will either be arrogantly giddy, or arrogantly depressed. He can’t help himself.
Why should the justices have to read this thing; nobody in congress did.
But when your entire worldview is through the lens of
“liberals smart, conservatives dumb”,
you interpret that as “he didn’t know it was taken out”.
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