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Obama administration heeds judges' health care order-with link to Holder letter
CNN ^ | April 5, 2012 | By Bill Mears

Posted on 04/05/2012 10:19:11 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

Edited on 04/05/2012 10:50:42 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

Eric Holder Response

(CNN) -- The Justice Department obeyed a federal appeals court's unusual order Thursday in a legal and political spat over the health care law championed by President Barack Obama.

Administration lawyers met their deadline and filed a three-page, single-spaced letter -- following the specific instructions of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which is hearing a challenge to the health care law. The letter affirmed the government's stance that federal courts indeed have the authority to decide the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act -- and any other law Congress passes.

A dispute involving the court and the executive branch has elevated the political stakes over whether the law will survive various legal challenges, including a pending a Supreme Court decision. The high court's ruling, expected in June, would take precedence over any other courts hearing similar appeals.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 5thcourtobamacare; bhofascism; democrats; dojreplyto5thcourt; failure; holder; obama; obamacare; obamathreatensscotus; scotus; socialism
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To: Mr. Lucky
Judge Smith asked specifically for explaination and 'be specific'. I do not see any specifics in the letter. Holder seems indifferent to this demand by Judge Smith. Sort of a left handed FU.
21 posted on 04/05/2012 11:17:45 AM PDT by Texas Songwriter (Ia)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

So basically Holder is saying, “The Judical branch does have the right of review, but not in the case of obamacare.”

This administration reminds me so much of the old coin toss joke. Heads, I win...Tails, you lose.


22 posted on 04/05/2012 11:18:31 AM PDT by Sergio (An object at rest cannot be stopped! - The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight)
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To: samtheman

As noted, it wasn’t an apology he ordered, more of a “What you talkin’ about, Willis?”


23 posted on 04/05/2012 11:40:37 AM PDT by JennysCool (My hypocrisy goes only so far)
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To: samtheman

Read Holder’s letter. In legal-speake, it is the big FU you asked for.


24 posted on 04/05/2012 11:46:47 AM PDT by Jacquerie (No court will save us from ourselves.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I expect that the decision has already been taken, and that the time between now and June is for the Justices and their clarks to write their majority opinions and dissent.


25 posted on 04/05/2012 12:05:13 PM PDT by ichabod1 (Cheney/Rumsfeld 2012)
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To: samtheman

“As much as I hate Obama, and as wrong as he was with his now infamous “unprecedented” remark, I think he should have said a big FU to the court’s request for a letter of apology.”

If you LOOK at and READ the letter, Holder on his behalf did exactly that for you, not to worry.


26 posted on 04/05/2012 12:20:51 PM PDT by treetopsandroofs (Had FDR been GOP, there would have been no World Wars, just "The Great War" and "Roosevelt's Wars".)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
At lunch today msnbc or some network had Obama’s puppet on (can't remember his name). He said that “everyone knows that the president was talking in short talk about the SCOTUS and that he knows constitutional law.” It's amazing how much these people lie, but during an election year they lie like crazy! It's insane how people believe this garbage.
27 posted on 04/05/2012 12:28:12 PM PDT by 3rdcoastislander
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To: Mr. Lucky

The problem was that the legality of judicial review was never an issue in the case. The judge raised it himself.

That’s the unprecedented part of this; a judge raising an issue that’s not before the judge.

I can’t even come up with a good analogy.

I guess it would be like a judge in a 2nd Amendment case demanding one party to clarify their position on the limitations of political speech or their view on illegal search and seizure.


28 posted on 04/05/2012 12:36:06 PM PDT by MyronCopacetic
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To: treetopsandroofs; samtheman
I think he should have said a big FU to the court’s request for a letter of apology.

I agree with samtheman that Justice Smith doesn't have a lot of authority to force the administration to do much here. But I have made remarks elsewhere that this is just an election year strategy by Barry to malign the conservative SCOTUS judges. Barry Knows that Obamacare was passed with a wafer-thin majority and that SCOTUS has every right to strike down unconstitutional laws. He was just fibbing to rile the base against the SCOTUS. And it was perhaps a bit ill-advised of Justice Smith to use the moniker 'Obamacare' and just fall into Zero's strategy of baiting conservative judges. Everyone at FR thinks we have won some big victory by making himself look like an idiot, I am just not so sure.
29 posted on 04/05/2012 12:36:17 PM PDT by kroll
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
"1. The power of the courts to review the constitutional ity of legislation is beyond dispute.

Attorney General Holder - would you be so kind as to explain that to the President? Thank you, and have a nice day.

30 posted on 04/05/2012 12:39:24 PM PDT by In Maryland (Liberal logic - the ultimate oxymoron!)
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To: eureka!
"Tnx for posting. What a snarky response. The order was with specific reference to Barky’s comments. Methinks the DOJ under Holder is going to have a tougher time in many Federal courts after this. ~snicker~

You never know - after this some court might find that someone DOES have standing to challenge Obama's eligibility to be President.

31 posted on 04/05/2012 12:41:34 PM PDT by In Maryland (Liberal logic - the ultimate oxymoron!)
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To: In Maryland

..otherwise the next thing we’ll ask you to do is write “I cannot overrule the Supreme Court” 100 times on Glen Beck’s chalkboard.


32 posted on 04/05/2012 12:54:12 PM PDT by Winstons Julia (Hello OWS? We don't need a revolution like China's; China needs a revolution like OURS.)
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To: kroll

He’s “energized” his base, that’s for sure.

All the leftist freaks I know are REAL MAD at the Supreme Court.

Next, they’ll be demanding that their messiah ignore the Supreme Court, unless they get their jollies again by posting the justices’ addresses.


33 posted on 04/05/2012 12:58:38 PM PDT by treetopsandroofs (Had FDR been GOP, there would have been no World Wars, just "The Great War" and "Roosevelt's Wars".)
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To: MyronCopacetic
The problem was that the legality of judicial review was never an issue in the case.

How can you say that, he was after all, a student of Zero.</sarcasm>

34 posted on 04/05/2012 1:18:43 PM PDT by itsahoot (Tag lines are a waste of bandwidth, as are most of my comments.)
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To: samtheman

Obama is no Jackson. In fact, Zero wouldn’t be fit to shine Jackson’s boots.


35 posted on 04/05/2012 1:29:23 PM PDT by Chuckster (The longer I live the less I care about what you think.)
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To: Texas Songwriter

I agree. Holder did not do what Judge Smith requested, which was to specifically address the substance of Obama’s statement. Listen here http://www.ca5.uscourts.gov/OralArgumentRecordings.aspx?prid=257724 at 17:50 into the oral argument.


36 posted on 04/05/2012 1:54:24 PM PDT by AJFavish (www.allanfavish.com)
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To: samtheman
As much as I hate Obama, and as wrong as he was with his now infamous “unprecedented” remark, I think he should have said a big FU to the court’s request for a letter of apology.

As others have pointed out, the judge asked for a clarification, not an apology.

That said, I think the Administration could have ignored it to little effect.

I think they looked at it as a way to "reposition their position" because Obama's little veiled threat provoked a much bigger backlash than they expected.

They put the letter together in a way that they can claim they were clarifying, while they were actually sending a big FU to the judge.

We've seen this juvenile M.O. before from The Fresh Prince of BillAyers.


37 posted on 04/05/2012 2:03:41 PM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: IrishPennant

Just for clarification, hardly anything gets mailed in the federal system. It’s all filed electronically. ECF is electronic case filing.


38 posted on 04/05/2012 2:21:13 PM PDT by Centaur (Never practice moderation to excess.)
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To: Centaur
Just for clarification, hardly anything gets mailed in the federal system. It’s all filed electronically. ECF is electronic case filing.

I'm with ya...but that popped in my head immediately when I saw it...

39 posted on 04/05/2012 2:29:19 PM PDT by IrishPennant (Are you behind a "Blade of Grass?")
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To: 3rdcoastislander

Hey, a vote for the GOP is a vote for less reliable weather forecasts. How do I know this? The Kenyan said it!

How anyone can vote for this failed community organizer thug is beyond me.


40 posted on 04/05/2012 2:38:34 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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