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Napolitano: Supreme Court to Strike Down Obamacare
Newsmax ^ | MARCH 25, 2010 | David A. Patten

Posted on 03/26/2010 7:46:59 PM PDT by RobinMasters

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To: RobinMasters

While I sincerely believe that many of the provisions of “Obamacare” will be found to be Unconstitutional, ultimately,..., there is a high probability that the SCOTUS will reject challenges at this time since, the challenges are for PROSPECTIVE DAMAGES...


21 posted on 03/26/2010 7:55:16 PM PDT by ExSES (the "bottom-line")
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To: RobinMasters

The problem is that they will not declare the whole bill to be unconstitutional, just the individual mandate and maybe some of the regulations.


22 posted on 03/26/2010 7:55:50 PM PDT by AmishDude (It doesn't matter whom you vote for, it matters who takes office.)
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To: gov_bean_ counter

Well, that 5 are who the shampotus dissed in the state of the union.


23 posted on 03/26/2010 7:56:06 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
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To: RobinMasters

Scotus needs to fast-track this issue to the exclusion of all others.


24 posted on 03/26/2010 7:56:09 PM PDT by givemELL (Does Taiwan Meet the Criteria to Qualify as an "Overseas Territory of the United States"? by Richar)
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To: ExSES

Ripeness is not an issue when further development of the facts wouldn’t shed any more light on the case.


25 posted on 03/26/2010 7:57:00 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
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To: RobinMasters

I wish he were right, but it ain’t going to happen.


26 posted on 03/26/2010 7:57:10 PM PDT by cydcharisse (`)
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To: Hoodat

Why Breyer? I was thinking Stevens.


27 posted on 03/26/2010 7:57:41 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
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To: TheStickman

Amen to that one. If Jay Sekulow takes it to the Supremes, he’s got an excellent chance of winning.


28 posted on 03/26/2010 7:57:48 PM PDT by MsLady (If you died tonight, where would you go? Salvation, don't leave earth without it!)
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To: cydcharisse

who peed in your wheaties?


29 posted on 03/26/2010 7:58:03 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
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To: MsLady

Jay’s a mite pompous, but he nails argument before the USSC as well as anybody who’s ever done it. The question is, when the USSC as inevitable orders the state cases to be consolidated, will enough states want Jay to speak for them?


30 posted on 03/26/2010 8:00:18 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
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To: HiTech RedNeck

Breyer voted with the majority (7-2) to uphold the 14th Amendment in Bush v. Gore in 2000. Stevens and Ginsberg dissented.


31 posted on 03/26/2010 8:01:01 PM PDT by Hoodat (For the weapons of our warfare are mighty in God for pulling down strongholds.)
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To: RobinMasters

Napolitano can argue that this un-Constitutional until he is blue in the face, but I am sure he would say the same thing about a number of other cases that were uncomfortably close in the Supreme Court. Look at Keller vs DC (handgun ban), Ricci vs DeStefano (New Haven firefighters) and Citizens United vs FEC.

Fortunately in those cases Anthony Kennedy was a critical swing vote, but he proved that he is in favor of a loose definition of the Commerce Clause in Gonzales vs Raich (California State’s rights to medical marijuana).

Here is Clarence Thomas’ passionate dissent, with all do respect to Napolitano, he has no reason to say that Kennedy has shifted on this epic stance.

“Respondent’s local cultivation and consumption of marijuana is not “Commerce ... among the several States.”
Certainly no evidence from the founding suggests that “commerce” included the mere possession of a good or some personal activity that did not involve trade or exchange for value. In the early days of the Republic, it would have been unthinkable that Congress could prohibit the local cultivation, possession, and consumption of marijuana.”

“If the Federal Government can regulate growing a half-dozen cannabis plants for personal consumption (not because it is interstate commerce, but because it is inextricably bound up with interstate commerce), then Congress’ Article I powers — as expanded by the Necessary and Proper Clause — have no meaningful limits. Whether Congress aims at the possession of drugs, guns, or any number of other items, it may continue to “appropria[te] state police powers under the guise of regulating commerce.”

“If the majority is to be taken seriously, the Federal Government may now regulate quilting bees, clothes drives, and potluck suppers throughout the 50 States. This makes a mockery of Madison’s assurance to the people of New York that the “powers delegated” to the Federal Government are “few and defined”, while those of the States are “numerous and indefinite.”


32 posted on 03/26/2010 8:01:23 PM PDT by ATX 1985 (Time is Breath, Breath is Light, Light is Life)
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To: RobinMasters

The conservatives on the SCOTUS still want to play by the rules when the Marxists are not. I hope they do, but all that will do is inflame the useful idiots.


33 posted on 03/26/2010 8:01:30 PM PDT by Clock King (There's no way to fix D.C.)
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To: RobinMasters

“The Constitution does not authorize the Congress to regulate the state governments,”

Exactly the reason why each state has it’s own Constitution.
Each state is unique in it’s dispensation of resources.
One size of government cannot fit all states equally.

Health care will be struck down. Or else.


34 posted on 03/26/2010 8:01:34 PM PDT by o_zarkman44 (Obama is the ultimate LIE!)
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To: TheStickman

Invoking the supreme being to intervene in the foibles of mankind is a fool’s play.


35 posted on 03/26/2010 8:01:46 PM PDT by elkfersupper (Member of the Original Defiant Class)
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To: AmishDude
The problem is that they will not declare the whole bill to be unconstitutional, just the individual mandate and maybe some of the regulations.

They are counting on it. The thing that will survive is the thing they care about the most - the taxes.

36 posted on 03/26/2010 8:03:11 PM PDT by Hoodat (For the weapons of our warfare are mighty in God for pulling down strongholds.)
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To: RobinMasters

This is a no-brainer. The mandate is unconstitutional, along with many of it’s provisions. Barring private banks from issuing student loans is unconstitutional. Exemptions for certain states and not others is unconstitutional. Exempting certain religious groups from this plan is unconstitutional because it’s clearly discriminatory. The list goes on, add to the list, add-on-ers!


37 posted on 03/26/2010 8:04:43 PM PDT by historyrepeatz
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To: ATX 1985

Economic-based regulation of the private production and use of a fungible product (same thing that happened in Wickard) is not quite the same as regulation of the simple existence of people, unless people are also considered fungible. On a similar rationale, the USSC rejected the idea that Uncle Sam can ban guns in school zones.


38 posted on 03/26/2010 8:04:58 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
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To: givemELL
They should, but more likely, they will meet
ex parte and obey their King and Emperor, and perhaps
all go piss together on the grave of John Jay, like they
did when they last met ex parte with litigant cryptoKenyan Hussein.


39 posted on 03/26/2010 8:05:01 PM PDT by Diogenesis ("Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God." --Thomas Jefferson)
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To: RobinMasters

Ping for later


40 posted on 03/26/2010 8:05:11 PM PDT by Cheetahcat (Zero the Wright kind of Racist! We are in a state of War with Democrats)
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