Posted on 10/06/2014 4:11:06 PM PDT by Kaslin
By Jonathan H. Adler and Michael F. Cannon
Three years ago, we blew the whistle on the government behavior now being challenged in multiple Obamacare lawsuits, including Halbig v. Burwell and King v. Burwell. We performed much of the legal analysis underpinning those challenges. So it amused us when economists Henry Aaron, David Cutler and Peter Orszag tried to defend the government and counsel against Supreme Court review of King, yet inadvertently undercut the government on both counts.
Contrary to their characterization, plaintiffs Halbig and King do not challenge the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, much less attempt to “repeal or invalidate” it. The plaintiffs claim the clear language of the act exempts them from the law’s mandates, yet the government is subjecting them to those taxes anyway. They are asking the government to follow Obamacare, not strike it.
(Excerpt) Read more at finance.townhall.com ...
The likelihood that SCOTUS will want to
take free goodies from us, we the sheeple,
is close to nil. They’re just NOT
defenders of the rule of law.
Guess Holder and the FBI are going to have NSA drag out some surveillance photos of a certain Supreme Court Justice naked with children or discover some child pornography on a home computer.
SCOTUS has become an agency of corrupt government, one more way of ignoring the law and bypassing the will of the people.
really ????
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