White House To Ignore Court Ruling, Keep Handing Out Obamacare Subsidies

The Daaily Caller ^ | 7/22/14 | Sarah Hurtubise

[Nachum]

The Obama administration will continue handing out Obamacare subsidies to federal exchange customers despite a federal court’s ruling Tuesday that the subsidies are illegal.

A D.C. Court of Appeals panel ruled Tuesday morning that customers in the 36 states that didn’t establish their own exchange and use HealthCare.gov instead cannot be given premium tax credits, according to the text of the Affordable Care Act itself. (RELATED: Federal Court Takes Down Obamacare: Subsidies In Federal Exchange Are Illegal)

But the White House said in response that it will continue handing out the billions of taxpayer dollars in subsidies. White House press secretary Josh Earnest said that while the case continues to be battled out in the courts, the administration will continue to dole out billions in tax credits to federally-run exchange customers.

[ConservativeMan55]

Oklahoma is doing that in re: to gay marriage even though a Fed Court struck down their ban..

[ladyjane]

Gay Marriage was imposed by Romney

You have your facts wrong. Do some research. Do you know who Margaret Marshall is? Do you know the percentage of R's in their state legislature? Governors in that state have no power.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

It’s bad enough negotiating through Medicare for my Dad! No good will come of 0bamacare...but it’s working in the sense that it’s paving the way to Single Payer Government-Run Healthcare.

We’ll all be equally miserable and/or dead!

[aces]

We need folks to start going on tv and asking the american people to not act on obammas executive orders, out of control president..get that out there big time..ask the military to no longer follow him, no confidence..

[noiseman]

"It will be interesting to see what Obama does if the Supreme Court rules against him on this one. Just ignore them and keep doling out the money?"

Considering the fact that Congress refuses to impeach him, I think he can do whatever he wants without consequence until January 20, 2016. Short of revolution, impeachment is the only remedy to Obama's despotism. No matter what happens in the House and Senate in November, it will make no difference if Obama continues to ignore Congress and the Supreme Court, and wimpy Republicans and corrupt Democrats refuse to do anything to stop him.

[mass55th]

Sociopathic Behavior Syndrome

[RIghtwardHo]

My goodness can we get lawyers to write these articles? Look. I am all for the ruling, but the 4th Cir ruled the other way. Furthermore, the standard Cir Ct procedure is for there to be no final order until such time as an en banc request is turned down. (Some of the current Cir Ct. same sex marriage rulings being an up and coming example).

And there are just competing orders and they can follow either one as a practical matter.

I am not at ALL defending ODimit or Obamacare, but poorly written “opinions” send us tilting at windmills and we just can’t afford to do that. It’s chaff in the wind.

[Adder]

There is such a thing as an injunction telling them to stop until such time as it is finally adjudicated.

[Old Yeller]

A renegade president, and its not even Elizabeth Warren.

[Diogenesis]

Romney IMPOSED gay marriage HIMSELF.
No one else.

Romney, the rat statist and backstabber of Gov. Palin
though surrogates, IMPOSED it himself.

Perhaps, you in the Utah visitors’ group
were told otherwise or are part of the attempt to deceive.
Which is it?

Romney imposed his agenda on America (as with RomneyCARE).

[Diogenesis]

Note Romney’s use of improper executive authority. [The Romney Way™]

"Experts: Credit Romney for homosexual marriage"
"What he (Governor Bishop Mitt Romney) did was exercise illegal legislative authority'

"While former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney claims he did everything possible to throttle homosexual marriage in his state – his campaign now saying he took "every conceivable step within the law to defend traditional marriage" – several constitutional experts say that just isn't so.

"What Romney did [was] he exercised illegal legislative authority," Herb Titus said of the governor's actions after the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court released its opinion in the Goodridge case in 2003. "He was bound by what? There was no order. There wasn't even any order to the Department of Public Health to do anything."

Titus, a Harvard law graduate, was founding dean of Pat Robertson's Regent University Law School. He also worked with former Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore, ...

Romney's aides have told WND that after four of the seven court members reinterpreted the definition of marriage, he believed he had no choice but to direct clerks and others to change state marriage forms and begin registering same-sex couples.

Some opponents contend that with those actions, Romney did no more or less than create the first homosexual marriages recognized in the nation. And Titus agrees."

"....But the court's decision conflicts with the constitutional philosophy of three co-equal branches of government: executive, legislative and judicial, Titus said. It also violates with the Massachusetts Constitution, which states: "The power of suspending the laws, or (suspending) the execution of the laws, ought never to be exercised but by the legislature..."

And it cannot even be derived from the opinion itself, asserts the pro-family activist group Mass Resistance, which says the decision did four things:

* First, it acknowledged that the current law does not permit same-sex marriage.

"The only reasonable explanation is that the Legislature did not intend that same-sex couples be licensed to marry. We conclude, as did the judge, that G.L. c. 207 may not be construed to permit same-sex couples to marry."

* Second, it said it is NOT striking down the marriage laws (among other things, the Massachusetts Constitution forbids a court to change laws)

"Here, no one argues that striking down the marriage laws is an appropriate form of relief."

* Third, it declared that not allowing same-sex marriages is a violation of the Massachusetts Constitution.

"We declare that barring an individual from the protections, benefits, and obligations of civil marriage solely because that person would marry a person of the same sex violates the Massachusetts Constitution."

* And fourth, given that the court is not changing any laws, the SJC gave the Legislature 180 days to "take such action as it may deem appropriate."

"We vacate the summary judgment for the department. We remand this case to the Superior Court for entry of judgment consistent with this opinion. Entry of judgment shall be stayed for 180 days to permit the Legislature to take such action as it may deem appropriate in light of this opinion."

After the Legislature did nothing during the 180 days, Romney then took action "on his own," the group said.

"Gov. Romney's legal counsel issued a directive to the Justices of the Peace that they must perform same-sex marriages when requested or 'face personal liability' or be fired," the group said."

[BuckeyeTexan]

The Obama Administration can do whatever it wants whenever it wants because Obama has a pen and a phone.

[Cubs Fan]

If only Republicans would do the same when some Lib court imposes gay marriage in a conservative state.

Exaclty. I'm getting tired of the-- conservatives have to follow rules but libs can do anything they want--BS.

It's time to either hold them to the law or start fighting them with their own methods.

[Lady Jag]

In law, sedition is overt conduct, such as speech and organization, that is deemed by the legal authority to tend toward insurrection against the established order. Sedition often includes subversion of a constitution and incitement of discontent (or resistance) to lawful authority. Sedition may include any commotion, though not aimed at direct and open violence against the laws. Seditious words in writing are seditious libel. A seditionist is one who engages in or promotes the interests of sedition.

WE CAN DO THIS!

[SoFloFreeper]

Obey a court? Not for the boy king.

[grania]

Who can enforce the law against a sitting President. Whose job is it?

The founding fathers very wisely gave the "power of the purse" to the HOR, whose members have the closest contact with US citizens in their district. A "conservative" HOR was elected to exercise that power. They've failed us totally.

[Iron Munro]

The only two federal bureaucracies that do not have their own armies equipped with a few billion rounds of ammunition, millions of dollars
worth of military equipment and thousands of guns, rockets and grenades are the US Congress and the US Supreme Court.

[ladyjane]

Yeah - I guess you’re right.

I’m so glad Romney didn’t get elected. Think of all the uninsured poor people.

[Candor7]

SCOTUS is now SCROTUMUS.

[Tucker39]

Believe it or not, Newt knows the legal remedies for an out of control POTUS, as well as a rogue court such as the 9th Circus. He has written on the subject, giving precedents when it was actually done. Whether, if in a position of authority, he would have the stones go DO it is another subject.