Since when did it look bleak?
I have no idea what the SCOTUS is going to do, so I want bother predicting or invest any emotional energy one way or another.
Two things we know: (1) Elections matter
(2) We cannot depend on the SCOTUS to
overturn bad legislation.
The only sure way to repeal Obamacare is to elect a POTUS and a Congress dedicated to repealing it.
And the country’s chances of survival, don’t look so good.
For me, this case is a sanity check. If the court does not find that the FedGov is not authorized to set up exchanges by Obamacare, our SCOTUS has lost every shred of respect I have left for it.
It will have officially jumped the shark.
What we can observe is that leftist jurists NEVER fear their votes display an ideological stance.
[[Note, though, that Roberts and Justice Anthony Kennedy are still seen as on or near the fence.)]]
Roberts isn’t ‘on the fence, not even near it’ He’s already indicated that he believes presidents can interpret the law however they see fit, and remember, He is the idiot that falsely claimed the supreme court’s job is ‘not to protect the people from their own choice of president’ (or something along those lines)- (The supreme court’s job IS however to protect us against rogue presidents, rogue state officials etc=- The court is our last legal line of defense against such tyranny!
The question is how long will Obama’s activist justices be able to ignore that citizens are wising up to the fact that state sovereignty-respecting justices have previously clarified, on several occasions, that the states have never delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constituton, the specific power to regulate, tax and spend for intrastate healthcare purposes. This is evidenced by the excerpts from case opinions below, previously mentioned on FR.
Regarding the Obamacare insurance mandate for example, note the fourth entry in the following list, the excerpt from Paul v. Virginia. In that case the Court had essentially clarified that the feds have no Commerce Clause power to regulate insurance regardless if an insurance policy is negotiated across state borders.
”State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress. [emphases added]” —Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
“Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
“Inspection laws, quarantine laws, health laws of every description [emphasis added], as well as laws for regulating the internal commerce of a state and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c., are component parts of this mass.” —Justice Barbour, New York v. Miln., 1837.
”4. The issuing of a policy of insurance is not a transaction of commerce [emphasis added] within the meaning of the latter of the two clauses, even though the parties be domiciled in different States, but is a simple contract of indemnity against loss.” — Paul v. Virginia, 1869. (The corrupt feds have no Commerce Clause (1.8.3) power to regulate insurance.)
“Direct control of medical practice in the states is obviously [emphases added] beyond the power of Congress.” –Linder v. United States, 1925.
Also note that regardless that federal Democrats, RINOs and corrupt justices will argue that if the Constitution doesn’t say that the feds can’t do something then they can do it, the Supreme Court has addressed that foolish idea too. Politically correct interpretations of the Constitution's Supremacy Clause aside, the Court has clarified in broad terms that powers not delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to regulate intrastate healthcare in this case, are prohibited to the feds.
”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.
The only right left in America is the right to be robbed by the dependent classes.
Boehner and McConnel are in charge. Obamacare’s chances have never been better. If the Burwell decision kicks states off the gooberment teat McConnel and Boehner will have emergency sessions to “fix” Obamacare.
How many of the obamacare insured will have to die before that liberal curse is outlawed?