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To: dirtboy
Elections have consequences, and John Roberts is absolutely right that it is not the role of the Court to protect the people from the consequences of their political choices.

No, it is the role of the Court to protect the Constitution that Roberts so brutally betrayed. Roberts has destroyed the Constitution by effectively removing any limit to federal power, and pieces like this article are trying to spin it as if the court is doing us a favor by allowing the federal government to unconstitutionally grab more power.

It is not the job of the court to protect citizens from their own political choices, UNLESS those choices are unconstitutional. Obamacare WAS and IS unconstitutional and the justices that voted for it should be investigated and removed by Congress for abuse of power (and in the case of Kagan, corruption/ethical breaches for not recusing herself, even though she was involved in the government's defense of the law).

51 posted on 07/05/2012 7:38:45 PM PDT by old republic
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To: old republic
"Elections have consequences, and John Roberts is absolutely right that it is not the role of the Court to protect the people from the consequences of their political choices. "

A specious argument that ignores the 2010 Congressional elections.

Sending that POS bill (that didn't have a severability clause/provision) back to Congress would have killed it as the US voting population desired in effecting the 2011 change in the House.

57 posted on 07/05/2012 7:45:58 PM PDT by Paladin2
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