Keep your eyes open for this one Its the sleepers that 0 is not expecting and will build up to take him down!
It is NOT a drafting ambiguity.
The wording was made that way to convince the states to make their own exchanges, pushing the cost off the federal government (as an unfunded mandate).
The fact that a bunch of states refused to take the bait made fedgov pick up the gauntlet, which was NOT authorized by the plain wording of the law. Laws must mean what they say, even if it is written in the roundabout manner of legal mumbo-jumbo. In this case, the law means that Obama far exceeded his authority to spend taxpayer money.
What will a DC court do? Ha.... Don’t make me laugh. They’re probably tossing and turning in bed at night trying to find a way to rule in the Emperor’s favor.
Isn’t Janice Rogers Brown on the DC Circuit?
Obamacare has been struck down a dozen times in lower courts. It didn’t stop anything. Libs will just keep judge shopping until they get the results they demand.
By the way, the D.C. Circuit might nuke ObamaCare tomorrow
That kind of news would drive Obama more bat crap crazy than he already is. They’d have to remove all sharp objects from his reach.
Where are the cases arguing that the penalty/fine is an illegal tax? Supposedly those were in a couple of the circuit courts as well
Kapow. (Is that racist?)
If you have to pass it to find out what is in it, it doesn’t give individual Congressmen grounds for putting forward legislative intent—you can’t say this is what you understood something to mean when you haven’t read the something.
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” Justice Elena Kagan noted that “this court does not revise legislation.”
Tax = Penalty = Tax = Symantics, right Justice Roberts?
Who will stop him? < /rhetorical question>