Cott, you're right about this issue being horrendous; but I think that Roberts is telling Americans that ... "Congress, not the court, has the power to make law. You get what you vote for. And ... Brother, you asked for it."
In other words, Roberts is essentially telling us that an election is how bad law gets fixed.
[[In other words, Roberts is essentially telling us that an election is how bad law gets fixed.]]
My point is that the bad law isn’t goign to get fixed- the gop might repeal the law, but roberts has made it possible for the left to simply reinstate the unconsitutional law- and make no mistake, it IS an unconstitutional law, when they regain power- that’s not a fix, but a temporary bandaid- our supreme court had a duty to do, a duty to define how far into our lives the government was allowed to tintrude, and it failed to uphold OUR consitutional rights and granted the governmet unfettered and unprecedented power to control what we purchase- and that is exactly what the mafia did to business owners- if it was illegal for the mafia to do that, then why is it now legal fopr our government to do the exacty same thing? This isn’t a voter issue- this is a cosntituional issue that needed to be decided by our supreme court- and it needed to be decided objectively- NOT based o nwhether the court would be perceived by the left to be biased if it ruled agaisnt the admin istration
I beleive Roberts is flat out wrong abotu htis being an issue that needs to be decided by the voting public- our supreme court has aq duty to decide objectively what our constituion allows or dissallows, we the people do not have that duty
Lety’sa suppose a GOP thinks it’s illegal to steal a purse, but a liberal thinks it’s alright (based o nthe ‘needs of the criminal who ‘may be hungry at hte time of theft)- and it makes it’s way to the supreme copurt- Our SC has a duty to rule based on the constitution and how the constitution is set up to protect individual rights- Just because the left feels sorry for the criminal who ‘might be’ hungry at hte tiem of theft, our constitution is suppsoed to protect us, the majority, agaisnt being robbed- however- roberts has now given the goernemtn the right to rob us based on the premise of what ‘might happen’ if we don’t have insurancve-
I’m too tired right now to make fuirther arguments- but My beleif is that roberts is way off o nthis being aN issue that voters should decide- roberts had a responsibilty to determien how far our government can go toward invading our lives, and forcing us to buy their produict- and he failed- and now he’s tryign to paqwn it off o nthe voters? Wow! Just wow!