Posted on 06/15/2012 11:47:00 AM PDT by kingattax
Maybe he’ll declare the SC in recess, so their ruling is invalid.
The result would be chaos; the government would have a hard time enforcing any of the financial provisions. No Court would punish a person who refused to pay money as directed. Individuals could sue anyone who attempted to collect money for the government for acting without authority. Any government official who attempted to enforce the statute might be personally subject to a lawsuit since they would be acting without color of legal authority.
Jackson was not involved. The State of Georgia was doing the removal. Jackson's actual statement was "...the decision of the Supreme Court has fell still born, and they find that they cannot coerce Georgia to yield to its mandate," (i.e., the Court had no power over Georgia, and Jackson had no interest in using federal force to intervene).
One thing that concerns me is how it is possible for a group of people (Senate Rats) to go against public opinion, using illegal tactics when they knew that they could not override a filibuster, and then take that vote before the new Senator from Massachusetts could be seated (who was being heldup from taking his seat after he won the election by the Rat governor, until after obammacare was voted upon).
The Rats also refused to include any Republicans in the creation and/or forming of the bill, which indicated their total disregard for any sense of bipartisanship.
The Senate Rats were hellbent on ramming this bill down the American public’s throat. The Rats are hellbent on power, the public and the Republic be damned.
An adverse ruling against Obamacare may result in the death of the Supreme Court.
Obama has defied courts before (lifting the drilling moratorium, etc.) and while I think the bureaucracy will pretend they didn’t hear anything, the administration is likely to try to make this a campaign issue and a call to rally the troops while, behind the scenes, they try to still implement as much as they can.
I fear the GOP more than I fear the Democrats. Even if the law is thrown out in total, their are idiot RINO GOP asshats taht are likely to try to save parts of Obamacare they like.
END IT! DON’T MEND IT!
They can always pass very specific health care laws as needed after Obamacare is wiped out but repeal the ENTIRE THING. We still don’t know what all is in that corpulent 3000 page monstrosity.
Repeal the entire thing if the SCOTUS only overturns the mandate portion, and start from scratch.
If I was the GOP, I would repeal every single law passed under the Pelosi-Read reign of terror and pass separate targeted laws to restore anything they might have done that is actually good for the people and freedom and our rights. Not that I believe any of it is.
END IT. Full repeal or overturn. Then make insurance available across state lines and approve health savings accounts.
NO SOCIALIZED MEDICINE. NYET.
I believe that the Rats illegally passed Obamacare, as they used reconciliation process, which is not legal for Obamacare.
Why haven’t the Republicans already stood their ground on this issue that the law is illegal because it was passed unlawfully.
And why the hell isn’t that part of the argument to the SCOTUS? If Obamacare was unlawfully passed with 51 votes using reconciliation, then why the hell isn’t it part of the SCOTUS argument to overturn a law that is unlawfully passed?
How could Georgia have sent them across several other states and stteled them in federal territory without the Federal government’s participation? Your version doesn’t make sense.
Nobody would comply with the Liberal Messiah. He would be guaranteeing His defeat in November.
I don't think so. They know that if it comes to a public option, Obama will not hesitate to take them out of the picture altogether.
More likely, these same insurance companies that backed Obamacare from the start,will suddenly start throwing money at Republicans.
HMMM, the news station I am watching says Monday 18th for SCOTUS ruling. This post says week of 25th! Which is it?
While that is true, I'm curious what you would suggest as the remedy if, just before outgoing congresscritters were replaced by new ones, a bunch of them typed up a bill and gave it to the President, claiming that it had been approved by voice vote, and the President signed it? Who would have standing to challenge that, and by what means would such a challenge be conducted?
If the newly-seated Congress would have the authority to decide such a challenge by itself, with the legislation being struck down by a 50% vote in either house, then that would imply that Congress has far greater authority to repeal legislation than specified in the Constitution (which requires a majority of both houses, and presidential approval, or else a 2/3 majority in both houses). If invalidating the legislation would require a majority of both houses and presidential support, or a 2/3 majority in both houses without it, then some rogue congresscritters amounting to 1/3 of either house could conspire with the President to "pass" whatever legislation they wanted.
I really don't see any practical alternative to allowing some outside arbiter to act in such cases. True, that may seem to violate "separation of powers", but I would suggest that the Court has a duty to uphold the Constitution even when Congress does not.
The public option is the end game for the politicians, insurance companies, and medical industry. Privatize the profits while transfering the risks and costs to the taxpayers and consumers. Follow the money, always follow the money.
I don't think I follow the events in your second paragraph. There was no constitutionally passed law to repeal, was there?
Your last para speaks to the frustration we conservatives constantly deal with. We wish to see a prosperous and happy republic and know we will have one if our Constitution is followed; the rats wish to tear it down and impose a utopia, which is certain to become a hell.
If the people want Utopia (hell), that is what we'll get.
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