Posted on 03/28/2012 2:05:38 PM PDT by RobinMasters
Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia humorously invoked the Eighth Amendment to the Constitution, which forbids cruel and unusual punishments, when discussing the Obamacare legislation during oral argument today at the Supreme Court.
JUSTICE SCALIA: Mr. Kneedler, what happened to the Eighth Amendment? You really want us to go through these 2,700 pages?
(Laughter.)
JUSTICE SCALIA: And do you really expect the Court to do that? Or do you expect us to — to give this function to our law clerks?
Is this not totally unrealistic? That we are going to go through this enormous bill item by item and decide each one?
MR. KNEEDLER: Well -
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We have to pass the bill to find out what is in it.
Reading it would be a daunting task, even with lots of coffee, no distractions, and a few weeks. Living under it as the letter of law, now that’s cruel and unusual punishment.
Well at least one of them has a brain.
Welcome to the real world USSC. We lowly citizens have to follow millions of pages of laws from the unconstitutional federal level on down and you filthy scum have seen fit to tell us that “Ignorance of the Law is No Excuse”.
Well you black robed morons even you don’t understand what congress has written nor does it seem you understand your job of protecting the constitution from the ruling class.
Actually we have to dump the bill to find out what the rats have hidden inside.
Oh come on Judge....If Obama read it (past tense)(cough, cough), you can read it.
that’s what ya get for outsourcing this to the Reid-Pelosi Sausage Factory, Barry...
Black robed morons is extremely disrespectful. Ashamed to see it on FR.
how do you measure your intellectual prowess to be superior to the SCOTUS?
Where did you get your law degree? Have you clerked for a justice?
Ditto.
It’s not that far fetched though!
so now NOBODY in DC has read or is able to understand the legislation that is to be Obama’s unprecedented legacy.. not even the people that supposedly wrote it.
Scalia has one of those year blend of qualities one rarely finds in a SC judge brilliance of distilling complex issues into simple terms coupled with a great sense of humor which is oft reflected not only on the bench but also in the opinions he writes. He is the only justice who a reader of his opinions will guffaw while the reader is being enlightened.
Scalia has one of those rare blend of qualities one rarely finds in a SC judge, the brilliance of distilling complex issues into simple terms coupled with a great sense of humor which is oft reflected not only on the bench but also in the opinions he writes. He is the only justice who a reader of his opinions will guffaw while the reader is being enlightened.
Well then it is beyond your ability to understand these morons place Corporations, Unions, organization above us when it comes to campaign contributions.
It is “WE THE PEOPLE” and those 9 idiots completely eliminated the individual’s ability to have a say in who runs for office as their meager contributions are completely overpowered entities which are NOT We The People.
So go ahead and support them but it is obvious they don’t consider US citizens to be the REAL source of power and that is what the founders risked everything for.
2,700 pages? Ouch. Anything that’s that complex is BS. It could be distilled to a single page, titled: “FU America”, by dems/lib-commies.
“how do you measure your intellectual prowess to be superior to the SCOTUS?”
When your sole job is to make sure the actions of government are allowed by a rather simple document that has been around for a couple of centuries and even comes with a set of owner’s manuals (Federalist Papers) and you constantly puke out 5-4 decisions at least 4 of them are morons, possibly 5 and in the case of their decision in campaign contributions have proved all of them to be either morons or traitors.
It is WE THE PEOPLE not WE THE UNIONS or WE THE CORPORATIONS or WE THE ORGANIZATIONS. Got it?
The USSC has allowed the US Constitution to be trampled upon every day and people like you are too lazy to call them on it. I am not. I write to politicians everyday how about you or do you just Monday morning quarterback?
now you have proved your ineptitude and inability to judge
Keep at it
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