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Justices poised to strike down entire healthcare law
Fox43 ^ | March 28, 2012 | By David G. Savage

Posted on 03/28/2012 9:44:18 AM PDT by Bill Buckner

The court’s conservatives sounded as though they had determined for themselves that the 2,700-page measure must be declared unconstitutional.

"One way or another, Congress will have to revisit it in toto," said Justice Antonin Scalia.

Agreeing, Justice Anthony Kennedy said it would be an "extreme proposition" to allow the various insurance regulations to stand after the mandate was struck down.

Meanwhile, the court's liberal justices argued for restraint. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said the court should do a "salvage job," not undertake a “wrecking operation." But she looked to be out-voted.

Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. said they shared the view of Scalia and Kennedy that the law should stand or fall in total. Along with Justice Clarence Thomas, they would have a majority to strike down the entire statute as unconstitutional.

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TOPICS: Editorial; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: obamacare; robertscourt; ruling; scotus; scotusocareday3
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To: rurgan
Clinton keeps destroying the U.S.A with that Marxist Ginsburg it put on the supreme Court.

"it" is also helping to destroy the US from without as well as within (eg. "Muslim Spring")

Hillary provides Egypt with the cash, while her cohort Ruth Bader Ginsburg provides them with "constitutional advice".

121 posted on 03/28/2012 10:49:50 AM PDT by BlatherNaut
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To: Bill Buckner

It seemed to me yesterday and the day before that the only one who was solidly in Zero’s camp was Ginsburg.

Breyer probably is also, but he didn’t ask many questions.

Surprisingly, Sotomayer also had a very skeptical tone to her questions!


122 posted on 03/28/2012 10:50:07 AM PDT by djf (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2801220/posts)
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To: St_Thomas_Aquinas

” It’s strange that a reversion to a (leftist) aristocracy is regarded as “progressive.”

Most thoughtful post of the day!

To wit.....why are Pelosi, Reid and Obama regarded as “LIBERALS” ?


123 posted on 03/28/2012 10:51:26 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (God, family, country, mom, apple pie, the girl next door and a Ford F250 to pull my boat.)
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To: green iguana

Kennedy appears to be the one most inclined to scrap it, and that is no surprise, since he is the court’s only libertarian.
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124 posted on 03/28/2012 10:52:54 AM PDT by editor-surveyor (No Federal Sales Tax - No Way!)
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To: editor-surveyor
This is fundamentally correct.

But.........seeing the Liberal members on the Court, they are strongly subverting the correct and valid legal guidelines described in the Constitution. If it were not for Kennedy, we would be losing this right now.

The Democrats on the court, clearly vote along their Marxist Party line. They have no regard for the legalities clearly spelled out in great detail in the Constitution. They avoid the rule of law, and vote on the grounds of discovery. They are in this to corrupt the foundation of the Constitution at every opportunity.

Their votes are clearly against the Rule of Law, which should automatically be grounds for impeachment.

125 posted on 03/28/2012 10:53:40 AM PDT by PSYCHO-FREEP (If you come to a fork in the road, take it........)
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To: Bill Buckner
We need either the whole thing struck down or the whole thing upheld. If the SCOTUS takes this apart piecemeal it could mean Obama's reelection and Obama getting Single Payer.

If the whole thing is overturned, it brands Obama a failure, and he likely gets defeated and fades away.

If the whole thing is upheld, it will make the rise of the Tea Party in 2009 look like a pee-wee soccer game. All Hell will break loose on the right and Obama and the Democrat majorities will be thrown out in an effort to repeal ObamaCare.

126 posted on 03/28/2012 10:54:12 AM PDT by magellan
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To: pallis

” If the court’s liberals had any respect for the Constitution and Rule of Law, “

Simple, they are NOT liberals.....they are radical leftists.


127 posted on 03/28/2012 10:54:43 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (God, family, country, mom, apple pie, the girl next door and a Ford F250 to pull my boat.)
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To: Bill Buckner

If it is struck down, the Pubs must MUST bring
into question the competence of the administration
and focus on the lost time and money spent on this
wasteful effort.

As far as Ginsburg “salvaging” any thing from it,
that is not her job and should she attempt such a
thing should be impeached along with Kagan for
not recusing herself.

That’s my opinion.


128 posted on 03/28/2012 10:54:43 AM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: djf

Yeah, well, color me skeptical, particularly since she helped get it passed in the first place. Maybe.


129 posted on 03/28/2012 10:54:50 AM PDT by SuzyQue
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To: crusty old prospector
Show me the ruling.

Agreed. I feel like the MSM is playing rope-a-dope.

Methinks we are being setup...

130 posted on 03/28/2012 10:56:09 AM PDT by jonno (Having an opinion is not the same as having the answer...)
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To: Bill Buckner

Sounds like Soros didn’t hire enough cheap college interns to write a good health care bill. Oh well, you get what you pay for!


131 posted on 03/28/2012 10:57:07 AM PDT by The Duke
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To: rxsid

” I think, in this case, Kennedy will see the vast overeach by the Fed’s that removes “individual liberty” with such a mandate. “

With Obamacare, substitute “indentured servitude” for “individual liberty”


132 posted on 03/28/2012 10:58:04 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (God, family, country, mom, apple pie, the girl next door and a Ford F250 to pull my boat.)
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To: SuzyQue

Kagen did, never heard Sotomayer was involved...


133 posted on 03/28/2012 10:59:38 AM PDT by djf (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2801220/posts)
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To: TomGuy
"I would be leary of thinking they would subject the first black president to such a humiliation."

I doubt they will humiliate the Court in order to save hussein his well deserved humiliation.

We have to remember this is no ordinary administration. They have shown they are extremely adept at screwing the pooch at every turn. It's entirely possible the Court will find no way to save them from themselves.

134 posted on 03/28/2012 11:01:56 AM PDT by moehoward
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To: Bill Buckner

On a side note as a Red Sox fan I hate your name......


135 posted on 03/28/2012 11:02:04 AM PDT by GQuagmire
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To: Tenacious 1
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136 posted on 03/28/2012 11:02:17 AM PDT by airborne (Paratroopers! Good to the last drop!)
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To: djf

Sorry, talk about profiling! I tend to lump them together in my mind. I did mean Kagan, not Sotomayer.


137 posted on 03/28/2012 11:02:24 AM PDT by SuzyQue
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To: Bill Buckner; All
"Justices poised to strike down
entire healthcare law."


138 posted on 03/28/2012 11:03:17 AM PDT by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: St_Thomas_Aquinas
It’s strange that a reversion to a (leftist) aristocracy is regarded as “progressive.”

Progressivism = Reversion to Ancient Barbarism

Abortion -> Spartan Eugenics

Homosexualism -> Sodom and Gommorrah

Racial Politics -> Primitive Tribalism

Obamacare -> Caesarean Dictatorship

139 posted on 03/28/2012 11:03:17 AM PDT by BlatherNaut
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To: tet68

” If it is struck down, the Pubs must MUST bring
into question the competence of the administration
and focus on the lost time and money spent on this
wasteful effort.”

The Pubs “must” ?

In the past month, Boehner has:

1) Taken Rush Limbaugh to the wood shed

2) Spoken in favor of trial re: Trayvon

3) Warned Republicans not to criticise Obama, while overseas...regardless of his traitorious doings.

No, we need to clean house in Congress next.


140 posted on 03/28/2012 11:04:24 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (God, family, country, mom, apple pie, the girl next door and a Ford F250 to pull my boat.)
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