Yeah, it'll be different THIS time. /sMight... but it won’t.
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Wishful thinking. SCOTUS is untethered from the Constitution; they will decide based on their personal prejudices. That means Obamacare will survive. Bookmark.
The Supreme Court may be wise to make a statement regarding an executive order granting amnesty to illegals.
Even Roberts, the “it’s a tax, even though they say it isn’t, and it’s just fine by me” guy, will have a tough time twisting the issue to allow the illegal subsidies to stand. He might be deemed mentally incompetent and have his 2nd Amendment rights taken away....
If John Roberts screws this up again, we know he is being blackmailed because of the shady adoption of his two children.
with Roberts at the helm I ain’t holding my breath
I think they will kill it, and it is a MUCH STRONGER case than the prior one in the sense that there is a VERY SIMPLE solution for the federal government here.
In the 2013 case, if the mandate was killed, then it would have been next to impossible to rework Obamacare into something that had a chance. In this case, it’s is VERY EASY. You simply pass legislation CORRECTING THE MISTAKE. Of course you now need to round up Republicans in each body of Congress, quite a few in fact, when many of those same Republicans were shut out of the original Obamacare.
So, it will require something that is BRAND NEW to this president, which is COMPROMISE with the opposition. He may well get his “correction” through...but there will be a lot of other changes that go through with it.
This will be fun to watch.
Problem is, the ACA isn’t a law. It’s a blank check; a book of blank checks.
What legitimate law allows itself to be continually written after passage, and even broken with impunity? It just morphs to fit the current objection, like a mutating virus.
And the court will just accommodate this mutation, without Congress’s constitutionally required participation.
not as long as obammy is blackmailing Roberts over his illegal adoption of 2 kids.
Dream On...they’re wimps.
Excerpt from http://dailycaller.com/2014/10/02/study-states-believed-obamacare-restricts-subsidies-even-before-lawsuits/:
“Jonathan Gruber, an MIT economist hired by the administration to construct the basis of the health-care law, not only admitted on video several times that subsidies go only to state exchanges, but explained that the restrictions were an attempt to convince states to get on board. The years-old video wasn’t unearthed until this summer by Volokh Conspiracy commenter Rich Weinstein.
Another recording of Gruber’s comments, discovered by bloggers Morgan Richmond and John Sexton, indicate that even Obamacare’s author believed at one point that the letter of the law restricts subsidies — and that this is what the law was intended to do.
Gruber, who has signed onto legal briefs in defense of the Obama administration in this case, called his comments a “speak-o.“ He now vehemently opposes the idea that subsidies should be doled out to the federal exchange.”
I certainly hope they do the right thing by us and our Constitution, but I’m not holding my breath.
The justices on Friday agreed to hear oral arguments in King v. Burwell, a lawsuit that challenges the insurance subsidies at the heart of the Affordable Care Act. The suit argues that the subsidies—which roughly 80 percent of Obamacare enrollees received—should only be available in a handful of states.
I believe most of us will not be holding our breath. We have done that too many times. I am sure they will find a way to rewrite the text.
When there is a question of intent, the legislation should be sent back to the legislature for clarification. Always.
The Supremes will read the clear language, and declare it is not their place to make law, (I know, I know...) just to interpret it. The law would then have to go back to the legislature, to be made more clear. (Oh this is so sweet to contemplate).
They will do so, because it’s a chance to redeem themselves, it would be correct jurisprudence, and the law is so unpopular, and they all know it.
Yeah, it'll be different THIS time. /sAfter the legal gymnastics that Roberts went through to declare that Americans could be forced to purchase insurance, I’m not holding my breath.
After the legal gymnastics that Roberts went through to declare that Americans could be forced to purchase insurance, I’m not holding my breath.