Posted on 06/27/2012 6:27:44 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
The real Supreme Court news on Tuesday wasn't the Arizona immigration decision or even the summary reversal of the Supreme Court of Montana in the "Citizens United 2" case. It was that the chief justice of the United States didn't write any of these opinions.
This is critically important, because we can now deduce with a reasonably high degree of certainty that John Roberts is writing the lead health care opinion. If we are right about this, then the law is in even deeper trouble that most observers imagined.
Lets start from the beginning. The Supreme Court tries to spread its opinions equally among the justices, both for the term and for its monthly sittings. There are three opinions left and, fittingly, three justices who have authored fewer than seven opinions: Roberts, Sonia Sotomayor and Clarence Thomas.
Roberts is the likely author of the health care decision for three reasons. First, Thomas is the only justice without an opinion from the December sitting, so he is probably authoring the First American opinion still outstanding from that sitting (and it unlikely that a staunch originalist like Thomas could hold together a majority on an issue like the health care law).
Second, it is unlikely that an opinion of this magnitude would trickle down to a junior justice like Sotomayor. The Alvarez opinion from February seems more appropriate for her.
Third, Roberts hasnt authored an opinion from the March or April sittings. Hes the only justice of whom that can be said. This, more than anything, makes him the likely author of the only opinion outstanding from either sitting, the health care law.
If were right about this, then its a real problem for the Affordable Care Act.
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...
But I really don't watch any movies...
btt
The Arizona Ruling by THE NINE SUPREMES (actually 8) has proven that we no longer have a US Constitution.
Hence, it is pointless to talk about a Court Dictate on Obamacare being anything but a dictate of the polarized Court.
We also have a Rogue Dictator, and a Rogue Obama-Rifles Attorney General Leader.
Preference is not the issue. What the Court has already Dictated on Obamacare will be the issue.
The further destruction of the US Constitution is the most probable dictate that the Court will hand down on Thursday, as this will be the last dictate of this past year, and hence they cowardly will release their worst dictate on their last day in session.
Since Obamacare of ANY sort will financially destroy America, our options are limited to Congressional ABOLISHMENT of all of Obamacare, or for we, the people, to begin the tedious process of convening peaceful State Constitutional Conventions, and splitting the former USA into multi-State Regions.
For almost 80 years we have been saddled with the failed Keynesian Economic System. It has bankrupted the US Federal Government.
The derivatives of the WW2 Wage and Price Control Dictates are as follows: Medicare, Medicaid, Romneycare and Obamacare.
All of these vote-buying gimmicks are funded by debt created by the failed Keynesian Economic System.
Currently this Debt is charged to those who cannot vote: our Grandchildrens future descendants.
This Debt is the Federal Grandchildrens Tax, or FGT, to distinguish it from the FIT, or Federal Income Tax, which only 51 % of us are required to pay.
The Silent Majority is silent no more.
There will be additional calls for State Constitutional Conventions if the Republicans try to preserve or retain ANY of Obama or Romneycare.
Obamacare is the Death Knell for America. It must be ABOLISHED FOREVER if America is to survive.
If Obamacare does survive, then I favor Regional Areas/Republics of the former United States of America. I think the States that the XL Pipeline will run through makes excellent sense for one Region, called The Texas Region. The Mississippi Region would be those States that the Mississippi River runs through. Pacific and Atlantic Regions are obvious, as are the Rocky Mountain States.
In this way people could vote with their feet and move to a greater or lesser degree of personal Liberty.
The Great Experiment of forcing the United States of America back into the European Feudal System began with FDRs Social Security System and will end in failure with Obamacare.
There is no need for armed conflict, as we have already tried that horrific method with our bloody Civil War.
Just peacefully hold State Constitutional Conventions, split up the former USA into multi State Regions, and then hold Fourth of July Remember When Days once a year, as we thank our lucky Stars that we in NO WAY are like Europe.
If we were a Nation of Laws, we could survive.
We, instead, have become a Nation of Lawyers, and thus survival is not possible.
Lawyers do not obey the laws, they just change their interpretation of the laws to suit themselves. For example, Remember the Arizona Law! would make an appropiate State Constitutional Convention poster.
During the State Constitutional Conventions and split up of the former USA, we need to designate a multi-State Region just for Lawyers. They could then Keynesian themselves to their hearts content.
The Region that I will choose will be based on The Invisible Hand of Samuel Adams Free Market, with NO safety net.
Think it over, as it will take years to complete all of the State Constitutional Conventions.
Thus, we have time to plan to do it RIGHT, (pun intended), and throw the Liberal cartons of useless Tea millstones back into the Sea of European Feudalism/Socialism that they so richly deserve.
We must design our Multi-State Regions/Republics so that the disaster of RINO-morphing, and creeping Keyneism does not occur again.
Without an effective Check and Balance System each Multi-State Region/Republic will not survive, as has been proven in the present USA by the efforts of RINO-Democrat-Liberal Agenda Media Triangle of Doom that we have today.
There is still hope if we can DUMP Romney by having the Delegates vote to ABSTAIN on the first Ballot in Tampa.
If Romney becomes the Nominee, Obama wins big in November, just like he did against Lame-Brain McCain in 2008, and it will be GAME ON Time for us FReepers here in the former USA.
BTW, Im dusting off my Tri-Cornered Hat, will dig out my copies of The Federalists Papers, and for Patriotic Flair, may even make a few quill pens!
Let us build a more perfect Union! Long live the Second Republic of TEXAS!
____________
BTW, BTW, to the BIG BROTHER Lurkers: save your expensive Obamadrones for the continuous, and now SCOTUS-approved, invasion of the Mexican Drug Lords into Southern Arizona.
We will be no bother to you as we will be more peaceful, and more patriotically joyful than a GSA Convention in Las Vegas when we hold our many State Constitutional Conventions.
Yall come by now, hear?
“It would help if voters cared about the Constitution as much as they do about their EBT cards.”
Well said.
I wonder if Obama still thinks he was cute disrespecting Roberts at the 2010 State of the Union Address.
I told the sheepel last night that the pirate Roberts was placed on the court, at the head of the court, for reasons only now becoming obvious. He is the globalist choice and he is handing OUR sovereignty over to the blackmailers known as the international banking powers that be. To end American citizen sovereignty the system must be collapsed, and Roberts is the means through which to lend a specious air of conservative respectability to the swift collapsing of our economic system. Roberts is not a conservative and he is not a liberal, he is a puppet on bankers’ strings aiding and abetting the criminal enterprise as they work to end American sovereignty and cancel the Constitution. And still these same sheeple will not acknowledge what is happening right before their eyes!
I told the sheeple last night that the pirate Roberts was placed on the court, at the head of the court, for reasons only now becoming obvious. He is the globalist choice and he is handing OUR sovereignty over to the blackmailers known as the international banking powers that be. To end American citizen sovereignty the system must be collapsed, and Roberts is the means through which to lend a specious air of conservative respectability to the swift collapsing of our economic system. Roberts is not a conservative and he is not a liberal, he is a puppet on bankers’ strings aiding and abetting the criminal enterprise as they work to end American sovereignty and cancel the Constitution. And still these same sheeple will not acknowledge what is happening right before their eyes!
Roberts is a lawyer.
Lawyers do not obey laws.
Lawyers instead reinterpret laws to suit themselves.
If lawyers on the US Supreme Court do not obey laws, then why should we?
Should lawyers be prohibited from being one of THE NINE SUPREMES?
Well it looks like I'm the one eating words. Too bad.
Well does he?
He knows Roberts is a tool.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.