Posted on 06/28/2012 6:54:37 PM PDT by Alberta's Child
Upon further review and discussion here, I've concluded that the majority opinion of Chief Justice Roberts in the ObamaCare case was exactly what this country needed. He effectively took the heap of crap that had been dumped in the halls of the U.S. Supreme Court and tossed it right back out where it belongs: in the homes and businesses of every U.S. citizen who has allowed this bunch of fools in Washington to govern us this way.
Think of it, folks ... Any obligation of the U.S. Supreme Court to deal with this idiocy went out the window the moment that dingbat Nancy Pelosi stood up on television and said: "We have to pass the bill to see what's in it."
If I were a Supreme Court justice, I wouldn't spend 30 seconds of my life reading a single legal brief in a case involving a Federal statute that was passed even though the Speaker of the House of Representatives didn't even read the damn thing before voting on it.
On top of all that, just consider this: There were 28 states that filed legal challenges to ObamaCare, either individually or jointly. How can 28 states file legal challenges to a Federal law that was passed in the U.S. Senate by a 60-39 margin? If I'm sitting on the Supreme Court and the Attorney General of, say, Pennsylvania (which is one of these 28 states) comes in for oral arguments in the case, my first and only "question" would be: "If you have such a problem with this Federal statute, why don't you take it up with Bob Casey, Arlen Specter and those nine House members in your state who passed the damn thing ... along with the idiots in your state who cast their electoral votes for that jug-eared Kenyan nitwit in 2008?"
More and more I am comparing him to pontius pilate.
>>No one forced Roberts to stay on the SCOTUS. If he felt threatened he could have retired any time.
Instead he chose to stay & move the entire nation a great leap closer to slavery. <<
Who do you think Obama would put in to replace him?
How can you call what he did today....judicial restraint? That was judicial activism, rewriting the law.
I agree completely! I think Justice Roberts did us a BIG favor by demanding that the Democrats defend this monstrosity in public before the November election.
She would have voted with Scalia.
Absolutely. John Roberts has betrayed the Constitution and the American people. Like Rush said today, he was hell-bent on saving Obamacare and he has succeeded.
Amen!
17 dems in the house defected today to hold Holder in contempt.
The senate has the same pressures.
EXACTLY what you said!
There is nothing noble or good in Roberts decision. He betrayed us and the Constitution.
And I agree about feeling powerless. I live in Alabama and both my senators are Republicans. Granted one is more moderate than the other but both are way right of Obama. And I will probably hold my nose and vote Romney. That’s all I can do. Vote, simmer, stew and gripe. And take it. They are just going to do whatever they want.
It does make me feel helpless and powerless and that makes me angry.
And now he has his legacy, the “Roberts Tax”.
That's the right argument, but for a different legal action. For the U.S. Supreme Court to take up the hypothetical case you describe, the legal action would have to be brought by a plaintiff who suffered harm because he was taxed in this manner. No such plaintiff exists in this case (yet), because the mandate hasn't taken effect yet.
This particular Federal case only involved the legal action filed by the Attorneys General of those 28 states. It was, by definition, a very "hyopthetical" case because none of the applicable ObamaCare provisions that were under dispute has even taken effect yet.
Heck, I would even suggest that these legal challenges were filed prematurely -- because there's always a possibility that ObamaCare could be altered, overturned, or completely de-funded by Congress before anyone is ever subject to these individual mandates.
I wonder if Mark Levin has any take on this. I love the guy's legal analysis, but there are a lot of legal angles to ObamaCare that haven't even been brought into the cold light of day yet.
Yes. roberts is a traitor and cemented GWBs disastrous legacy.
Put up a wire antenna high up..Hook er up your existing radio antenna...Even with an alligator clip. Anything but TV and your OK.
Thanks to all of you for some great insight and spirited debate. I’m off to bed now, but keep posting here! I’ll check in again tomorrow morning before heading off to work.
Yes you are. Roberts had the knife to the throat of this crap and he let it free. Whether it was an ultimately academic exercise in limiting the Commerce clause or a desire for the Court to appear non-partisan, the idiot chief justice crippled our liberty. Thanks justice Asshole!
None of you actually believe a liberal court would avoid going for the jugular on conservative legislation do you? See gay marriage, voter ID laws ,etc. The Left never breaks ranks on the big ones while we hand wring over nuances in principle. That’s why we have been on the slow march to socialism/communism for the last 80 years. Our side is extremely stupid and hampers itself with principle while the Left has us buried up to our shoulders in liberty’s grave.
The legal definition of a conservative Justice is far different from the political definition used by most folks here.
As I said in my original post I think the Chief Justice views his role as keeping the SC out of cases that are the responsibility of the elected officials to work out.
The congress in the last 40 years have been the kids in the first grade fighting in the sandbox and the SC has become the overzealous parent trying to make everything OK.
Roberts is saying nutz to that...
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