This may be news to some, but this ruling only affirms rulings from the 70s and 80s which said in effect that the “rights” found in the US Constitution only apply to Treaty Tribes ... while all other enjoy mere privileges which can be revoked at any given time ... Further, Treaty Tribes are designated Special Masters to whatever they chose to enjoy despite any prior claims by others.
Links to some of the basic cases which set this precedent in chronological order can still be found here: http://thepoliticallyincorrectfish.com/pif2/?p=553
With the ACA came the most recent whiffs of the scope of the plan to dissolve the Constitution and implement direct rule, which was implicit and clear to all those effected in the PacNW Salmon Wars of the 70s and 80s. It’s your turn now.
Effectively, they’re suggesting the Constitution has a self-destruct button built into it. I don’t think that was the intent of the Founders when they established the Courts.
I dislike it when people attack Chief Justice Roberts over his Obamacare vote. He did it because of Justice Kennedy’s duplicity, which *made* him do it.
That is, Kennedy wanted to be the swing vote which would make Obamacare the law of the land, giving the left *everything* it wanted, and making Obamacare impossible to repeal.
It would be a 5-4 decision with Roberts on the losing side.
So, by instead voting *for* Obamacare, two things happened. First of all, Kennedy was thwarted (and reportedly was enraged at Roberts for denying him, Kennedy, the “glory” of being the vote that made socialized medicine in America.) But that is unimportant in the scheme of things.
What really mattered was that, by voting *for* Obamacare, Chief Justice Roberts could lay the groundwork for its destruction. And he did.
If Obamacare was just ordinary legislation, repeal would be next to impossible, needing in practical terms, a 2/3rds vote of both the House and the Senate, *and* a presidential signature. Bottom line, we would be stuck with it forever, like Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.
But in one of the very few powers of the Chief Justice, Roberts put in the decision that it was a “tax”. In the constitution, it clearly states that taxes must be decided by *simple majority vote*. This means that just 51% of the House and the Senate, with a presidential signature, can *KILL* Obamacare.
So Chief Justice Roberts had a simple choice: vote against Obamacare, and lose, condemning America to socialized medicine; or vote *for* Obamacare, then insert a “poison pill” into it, almost guaranteeing that *eventually* Obamacare will be torn apart and ended.
So, those who criticize Roberts for voting for Obamacare are being stupidly arrogant: that they would rather lose the war than a single battle in it.
A treaty is “primarily a compact between independent nations.” Article II, Section 2 of the Constitution gives the President the power “to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur.” And the Supremacy Clause provides that “treaties,” like statutes, count as “the supreme law of the land.”