I say it again, if they vote it’s constitutional, we are going to have to do a separation from King George again.
What’s left, dear Judge, is revolution.
The point is well made.
Not only will the end of obamacare mandate be a small sign of sanity and a blow for freedome, but from that ALL the legislation stretched from the Commerce Clause are again in play.
With the right legal challenges, we can finally lurch towards a government that resembles what the Founders designed.
Next up: restore Amendments IX and X.
No problem for nobama, if the S.C. decision doesn’t make him happy, he’ll just pull an Andy Jackson and ignore it.
Constitution be damned, S.C. be damned, sign a few executive orders and all is well again.
Good post! Get rid of this abomination!
This tells me that the Justices, who will be the majority, have looked into the mandate question, and have found it to be an easy judgement to make: It is unconstitutional. The 27 states suing the Obama Administration over the constitutionality of Obamacare have done the difficult work making the case. The Justices will have easy work writing their decision.
Even James “Snakehead” Carville has emerged from his hole saying that having Obamacare struck down would be the best thing to happen to the Democrats. Democrats are looking at the disaster ahead and are trying to soften the blow.
Actually, it would be the best thing to happen for the Republicans. It would prove for all time that the Democrats are willing to toss out the Constitution to get what they want. And because of that, will be seen as the dangerous political force that must be eliminated from the American system.
JUSTICE SCALIA: Wait. That's -- it's both "Necessary and Proper." What you just said addresses what's necessary. Yes, has to be reasonably adapted. Necessary does not mean essential, just reasonably adapted. But in addition to being necessary, it has to be proper. And we've held in two cases that something that was reasonably adapted was not proper, because it violated the sovereignty of he States, which was implicit in the constitutional structure.
The argument here is that this alaso is -- may be necessary, but it's not proper, becuse it violates an equally evident principle in the Constitution, which is that the Federal Government is not supposed to be a government that has all powers; that it's supposed to be a government of limited powers. And that's what all this questioning has been about. What -- what is left? If thegovernment can do this, what -- what else can it not do?
GENERAL VERRILLI: This does not violate the norm of proper as this Court articulated it in Printz or in New York because it does not interfere with the States as sovereigns. This is a regulation that -- this is a regulation --
JUSTICE SCALIA: No, That wasn't my point. This is not the only constitutional principle that exists.
GENERAL VERRILLI: But it --
JUSTICE SCALIA: An equally evident constitutional principle is the principle that the Federal Government is a government of enumerated powers and that the vast majority of powers remain in the States and do not belong to the Federal Government. Do you acknowledge that that's a principle?
GENERAL VERRILLI: Of course we do, Your Honor.
JUSTICE SCALIA: Okay. That's what we are talking about here.
I implore the good people of Texas and Oklahoma to have mercy and be gracious to refugees should this upcoming ruling go the wrong way.
Please leave your borders open for a time while discussions of succession are had internally. It might take me a few months to get the family moved to your area. I promise to be a good and productive member of your new society.
Thank you in advance.
The Constitution guarantees the States a republican form of governmnt. If there is “nothing left”, then there is no republic - the contract is broken, and any authority derived from it nullified.
Nah Justice Scalia, it’s what’s after this. The Government drafting me, giving me a rifle, and sending me to war in France is hard to top. It was very important to the nation then. How important is health care needs to be decided now, not the power of government.