Indeed, the highest court has now made it the 'law of the land'.
Posted on 06/25/2015 8:34:36 AM PDT by originalbuckeye
Indeed, the highest court has now made it the 'law of the land'.
By that time his health care will be so bad they won't even pay for his Hernia Truss...
The Court’s decision reflects the philosophy that judges should endure whatever interpretive distortions it takes in order to correct a supposed flaw in the statutory machinery. That philosophy ignores the American people’s decision to give Congress “[a]ll legislative Powers” enumerated in the Constitution. Art. I, §1. They made Congress, not this Court, responsible for both making laws and mending them. This Court holds only the judicial power—the power to pronounce the law as Congress has enacted it. We lack the prerogative to repair laws that do not work out in practice, just as the people lack the ability to throw us out of office if they dislike the solutions we concoct. We must always remember, therefore, that “[o]ur task is to apply the text, not to improve upon it.”
“In this instance, the context and structure of the Act compel us to depart from what would otherwise be the most natural reading of the pertinent statutory phrase” (Chief Justice Roberts)
Yes. Shot in the guts to endure a slow and painful death.
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