The fix has been in. They aren’t going to rule against bambi.
That is NOT a mixture of good and bad, just bad!
I need a breath mint from the bile that just rised in my gullet. What a frickin coward. And by the way the voters never had a say in Obamacare. It had been sitting in a desk since the 40s and just waiting for the right group of marxist progressives to ram it through.
Toobin is an idiot, and people read questions from the bench too directly. A question is not an argument. A judge can even ask a question to prompt the counter-argument he wants to hear.
All branches of our government are devoted to inflicting the maximum harm upon the American people. “In declining states the leadership intuitively inflicts the maximum harm.”
I think everyone misses the point here. The full effects of Obamacare have not been felt by Americans. I say let the full force come down on all of us...then we’ll vote to make changes, and throw the bums out.
This is gobbledegook.
"Let John Jay and Brandeis be damned.
These Laws, fines and taxes are for all others
.... but not us.
And not our staff, or our families.
and of course not for Moslems who began this country."
"At the foundation of our civil liberties lies
the principle that denies to government officials
an exceptional position before the law and which
subjects them to the same rules of conduct
that are commands to the citizen."
Justice Louis D. Brandeis
Same cowardice trait as Boehner; always looking to abet Obama while searching for an alibi.
*if* he uses that logic that would be completely asinine. Bascially he’d be saying the President is a king and can do what they want regardless of what laws say because the President can just interpret them however he sees fit.
Want higher taxes...I read that 30% as 60%. Want to cut taxes...I read that only the income made that isn’t taxed by the local state gov’t as being available to be taxed by the feds.
We are truly a banana republic when this type of logic can pass as acceptable.
I think all he is doing is asking a question and wanting a response. The problem, I think deals with the meaning of the words “established by the state”. It can’t mean one thing in one part of the statute and something different in another part of the statute. As long as that holds true, then the supremes should rule in favour of the individuals from Virgina who were harmed by this section in the law.
After my previous rant...here’s my take on it.
The question is more likely setting the stage to say laws can’t be interpreted differently at will. If they can be read that way then the law isn’t clear and must be reworked. Either it’s unconstitutional or they stay the ruling pending congress fixing it within 6 months. This allows subsidies to stay in place this year but then come 1 Jan 2016...Obamacare is gone.
Well it’s gone until Boehner and McConnell pass a fix to it. They could use this as an opportunity to get rid of it, but instead they will tweak it to pay off their cronies and give away more freebies.
It kind of looks like the SCOTUS wants to avoid it’s responsibility, and force Congress to deal with obamacare.
By putting it off a few more years they just get more people on the subsidies and make it harder to get rid of.
It is really disturbing that the Justices of the Supreme Court seem more interested in politics, the effect of overtrning a law that was a sham to begin with, than they are in interpreting the law as written, and exercising their Constitutional duty.
So if someone gets away with murder, they get away with murder, ya can’t bing the deceased back, right?
Really troublesome. I guess Roberts doesn’t pay attention to off-year elections like ‘10 and ‘14. Just presidential elections where they drag out the dead to vote.
President Cruz’s first act should be to revoke ALL of 0bama’s Executive Orders.
There is no way they’re going to harm ACA. Does anyone actually believe a “future president” will dismantle a gargantuan government program affecting millions of people?
Anyone believing this is living in a state of denial.
Like it or not, we’ve got it and it’s permanent.