Dems Warn Of ‘Grave Damage’ To SCOTUS If ‘Obamacare’ Is Struck Down

TPM ^ | 3/28/2012 | sahil kapul

[Dick Bachert]

Does that sound like a not so veiled threat to anyone but moi?

[Dick Bachert]

Does that sound like a not so veiled threat to anyone but moi?

[hinckley buzzard]

By threatening the "credibility" of the Court the 'rats are essentially detaching from the rule of law, dropping yet one more of their many masks of sanity.

[Victor]

Ralph Kramden:

"Why don't you shut up....."

[JohnKinAK]

You nailed it. The dems are obviously applying political pressure on the court, but that could backfire big time.

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They only have to “get to” Kennedy and he won’t be that hard to coerce behind the scenes. I’m not at all convinced the court will overturn, the previous days were for nothing but theatre for public consumption. In the end Kennedy will sign onto the Sotamayor view and it will be upheld 5-4.

[Moonman62]

“The court commands no armies, it has no money; it depends for its power on its credibility. The only reason people obey it is because it has that credibility. And the court risks grave damage if it strikes down a statute of this magnitude and importance, and stretches so dramatically and drastically to do it.”

I, (NAME), do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; ...

[Oldeconomybuyer]

We worked with some of the brightest, most thoughtful and experienced constitutional Marxist lawyers in order to make sure that the law was constitutional. - Sen. Kerry

[PSYCHO-FREEP]

Yes, I can clearly see why the Democrats would claim that the SCOTUS, upholding the rule of Law according to the letter of the Constitution, would see this as a “discredit”.

BUT DO IT ANYWAY! Discredit me please!

[sjmjax]

It's breathtaking how the tortured liberal mind is so upside down / inside out.

What will damage the credibility of the Supreme Court or any particular Justice is any vote to uphold the mandate.

[GeronL]

The road to socialism requires millions of lies.

[Timber Rattler]

Never mind the fact that the judiciary is a co-equal branch of government, I guess that the implied threat here is tantamount to FDR's "court packing" plan.

[chesley]

The court already has no credibility. Overturning Obamacare would be a small, a very small, step toward reclaiming some.

The court may no command armies, but it has a whole slew of federal marshals ready to throw into jail anyone a judge so says.

that, not its credibility, is why people obey the courts.

[Signalman]

Does that sound like a not so veiled threat to anyone but moi?

Sounds like a threat to me, too. In fact, I'd wager that if they thought they could get away with it, Obama and the Dems in Congress would declare a "national emergency, institute Martial Law, and suspend the elections indefinitely.

[JIM O]

Logic would lead you to believe that it is difficult to vet something that you have not read and need to pass to see what it says.

[FedsRStealingOurCountryFromUs]

If SCOTUS DOESN'T strike down 0bamacare, Uncle Sam will need a GRAVE. This isn't even really about 0bamacare or health care.. It's about the Legislative and Executive Branch CHANGING OUR CONSTITUTION. OUR FOREFATHERS CREATED SCOTUS TO PROTECT THE PEOPLE FROM THE GOVERNMENT AND PROTECT OUR CONSTITUTION FROM CHANGE!

CHANGE, CHANGE, CHANGE.. SCREW 'CHANGE'!

[rawhide]

““The court commands no armies, it has no money; it depends for its power on its credibility. The only reason people obey it is because it has that credibility. And the court risks grave damage if it strikes down a statute of this magnitude and importance, and stretches so dramatically and drastically to do it.”

I take this as a threat from the Democrats!

[presently no screen name]

So thoroughly researched it had to pass before it was read.

STOP WITH YOUR THREATS YOU COMMIES!! The will of the people have spoken.

[Lazlo in PA]

Blumenthal and Kerry — who were joined by Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR) — called the press conference one day after liberals and other court watchers expressed serious doubts that the justices would uphold the Affordable Care Act’s requirement to purchase insurance, a central pillar of the law.

Looks like the Rats are in full panic. They just saw their whole ideology put on trial and they didn't like what they saw one bit. It is as though they never had a concept of how bad their thinking looks after being dissected.

[LostPassword]

Playing politics and attacking the court’s credibility seems dangerous. If I was a justice on the fence this may be what pushes me the other way (I admit I’d be a lousy justice since something like this could affect me).

The bigger deal is if I were 1 of 4 justices on the losing side of a 5-4 decision. If the court’s credibility is being attacked by congress, I’d feel the need to side with the majority so that it isn’t a 5-4 decision. Maybe the Democrats are expecting a 5-4 their way and hoping to turn it into a 6-3. I doubt they are thinking that much though and are just making threats.

[Manic_Episode]

Credibility? 52 million murders of our most innocent and vulnerable demonstrates that our highest court in the land has nothing in common with the US constitution.