Posted on 07/24/2014 5:54:25 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
President Obama’s plan to transform the U.S. health-care market is once again in trouble. This time, two Republican-appointed judges on a federal appeals court have invalidated a key portion of the program.
In other words, the U.S. constitutional system is functioning normally.
That’s not to say that the majority of a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit correctly struck down the issuance of tax credits through the federal health insurance exchanges in 36 states — though it is true, as the judges said, that the law only speaks of “Exchanges established by the State.”
There is a strong argument that ambiguities in the statute should be resolved in favor of the Internal Revenue Service’s interpretation, given the law’s manifest purpose to expand coverage, as a Democratic-appointed dissenter on the D.C. Circuit (as well as a unanimous Richmond-based federal appeals court) concluded.
Rather, the very existence of this case, Halbig v. Burwell, illustrates basic aspects of the U.S. political system about which progressives are in deep denial: Specifically, the Constitution is designed to inhibit comprehensive national legislation like Obamacare.
Why did the Framers create a federal government of limited and enumerated powers — leaving everything else to the states and “the people”? Why did they provide for so many veto points and counter-majoritarian institutions — frequent House elections, the Senate, federal courts?(continued)
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Come on Charlie, be honest, you are leaving out the Richmond Judges, were they Dem or GOP appointees? When you leave a blank like that, I smell a ‘rat’!
BTW, Breitbart.com has a story up called:Jeff Sessions: Boehners Group......
SLAMS Boehner on immigration. Can you post it?
Thx, Rita
Reagan had to deal with a Democrat Congress.
Crumb! I meant that to go by frpmail. So sorry!
Since the constitution is ‘obstructionist’ only to would-be dictators, it’s only a matter of time before Obama finds a way to toss it out the window.
He certainly wants to do it.
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