Posted on 03/26/2012 11:14:46 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Howard Dean predicts Supreme Court will declare individual mandate unconstitutional By Jeff Poor - The Daily Caller 9:48 AM 03/26/2012 ADVERTISEMENT
On Monday’s “CBS This Morning,” former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean broke with Democratic Party ranks once again on the issue of Obamacare. But this time, he did it in terms of how he thinks the Supreme Court will view the law.
Host Charlie Rose asked Dean, a physician and former Democratic presidential candidate, if he thought the individual mandate would ultimately be declared unconstitutional.
“I actually think that’s what they’re most likely to do before, of course, we’ve heard any arguments,” Dean, the former chairman of the Democratic National Committee, replied. “I can’t imagine how they’re going to decide this isn’t right yet. And you’ll have lawyers talking about the arcane legal question. But yeah, I don’t believe they’ll support that. And they certainly aren’t going to do it from the bench today.”
“I do believe that it’s likely the individual mandate will be declared unconstitutional,” he continued. “[Justice Anthony] Kennedy will probably side with the four right-wing justices. But I’d be very surprised if they — I think Kennedy will switch sides and it will be 5-4 in favor of severing that finding from the rest of the bill. The question is going to be, is this individual mandate question — can that be considered separately from the rest of the bill? And I think it will be.”
While he admitted his expertise was in medicine and not in legal matters, Dean also predicted that the portion of the legislation that expands Medicaid would be kept intact by the high court. He added that Obamacare could likely survive without the mandate portion.
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Yet...I have read that the law is missing any sort of severability clause...which means if the mandate is declared unconstitutional the whole mess goes in the dumpster. Which is it?
In the other hand, I have a paper bag full of warm spit.
Which one is worth more?
Since there is no severability clause the whole thing must go down. Yea! But.....its the Supreme Court packed with the likes of Kagan so....maybe no Yea yet.
Steely Tom predicts that the Obama administration will ignore whatever ruling the Supreme Court issues if that ruling inconviences them.
Severability was supposed to be among the arguments. So the Supremes will decide if it can or cannot be severed.
Perhaps, but the insurance industry could not. The only way the insurance industry agreed with the rest of the law was if all Americans, healthy or not would be required to purchase insurance. Without the mandate only the old and sick will purchase insurance, because the law allows the healthy to purchase at anytime with no pre-existing condition exclusions, people can literally wait until they get sick to buy insurance (and then end the policy when they get better). The result? Insurance companies will either by forced to double or triple premiums or go out of business.
The more conspiracy minded among us wonder if this wasn't the democrats plan all along. To have the individual mandate ruled unconstitutional but the rest of the law upheld. Which would eventually bankrupt the insurance industry and "force" the country into a single payer plan like they wanted from the start.
That’s a trick question.
That's the unsettling part. Nowhere in the bill was there language speaking to severability, so will the Supremes try to speculate on whether there was "intent" to establish severability.
With the court being 4 liberals, 4 conservatives and 1 moderate/swing vote (Kennedy), the fate of Obamacare rests on him. It could be said that Justice Kennedy is the most powerful man in the country, due to the split in the court.
We need to be praying for Justice Kennedy that he sees reason and votes to rule Obamacare unconstitutional!
This is dean’s way of providing a heads up to the obama admin to get plan B single payer ready to take the place of the mandate. Dean wants single payer anyway.
Not necessarily. Apparently there's precedent for the court to strike down only the offending piece and let the rest stand, even if there's no severability clause. It has something to do with the judicial branch showing deference to the legislative.
Hey Barry — PAYBACK’S A BITCH!
That's what's got me a little worried. What if they drop the mandate and just pay for Obamacare through general tax revenues? That would be jumping out of the frying pan into the fire. It'd be instant single payer. Obama wouldn't even have to wait the ten or fifteen years he was expecting.
LOL; THAT’s funny!
Dictator Baby-Doc Barack has ALWAYS ignored The US Constitution, ESPECIALLY with Obama”care.”
The cancer of Obama”care” now extends to Obama last week choosing a “Public health expert” for the World Bank Presidency.
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The major problem with THE NINE SUPREMES is that they are chosen for political reasons by the POTUS, and then they vote as an un-accountable democracy, for a Nation that is NOT a Democracy, but a REPUBLIC.
As a result, THE NINE SUPREMES commonly vote 5 to 4 on most issues. Constitutionality is seldom a consideration, and their up-coming ruling on Obama”care” will prove my point.
Now is the time to stand and deliver to address our grievances to the dictates of the Left.
Oppose the dictates of Dictator Baby-Doc Barack!
Our ONLY chance to ABOLISH Obama”care” rests with THE NINE SUPREMES, because Romney will be defeated by Obama.
IMHO, if Romney is anointed as the RNC Nominee, THE main issue in the National Election, Obama”care,” will be taken off the campaign table. Hence, Romney will not only lose, but suffer another crushing, and sadly typical, RINO defeat.
To those who want poster ideas, here are a few ideas for demonstration posters:
Obama”care” was robo-signed by Congress, and is therefore illegal.
Obama”care” was 2700 pages long, and is still being written, but not by Congress: witness the forced contraception coverage recently added by HHS Regulators.
Obama”care” has caused “The Catholic Spring.”
Obama”care” reduces competition, and therefore is illegal by the 1890 Sherman Anti-Trust Law.
Obama”care” is designed to be a US Federal Government monopoly, with no competition.
Obama”care” also is illegal according to the US Constitution, because it violates our freedom of choice.
Will THE NINE SUPREMES notice any of these three violations? I seriously doubt it.
Impeached Bill Clinton proved that the US President is above US Federal Law, so anything that the President wants he gets, regardless of the Federal Laws that he has violated.
The Balance of Power which is achieved by our three-part form of government suffers a serious blow when one of the three parts decides that it should defer to the unstated intent of another part.
The job of the Legislature is to write laws well.
The job of the Judiciary is to ensure that laws are written well and appropriately, within the parameters of the Constitution.
The job of the Executive is to enforce laws that others have written and which have not been struck down.
Currently, no part of our government is working as intended.
Steely Tom predicts that the Obama administration will ignore whatever ruling the Supreme Court issues if that ruling inconviences them.
and there you have it in a nut shell.
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