The SCOTUS lunchroom must be a very quietly uncomfortable place to be right now...
SCALIA, J., dissenting...Having transformed two major parts of the law, the Court today has turned its attention to a third. The Act that Congress passed makes tax credits available only on an “Exchange established by the State.” This Court, however, concludes that this limi- tation would prevent the rest of the Act from working as well as hoped. So it rewrites the law to make tax credits available everywhere. We should start calling this law SCOTUScare.
Perhaps the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act will attain the enduring status of the Social Security Act or the Taft-Hartley Act; perhaps not. But this Court’s two decisions on the Act will surely be remembered through the years. The somersaults of statutory interpretation they have performed (“penalty” means tax, “further [Medi- caid] payments to the State” means only incremental Medicaid payments to the State, “established by the State” means not established by the State) will be cited by liti- gants endlessly, to the confusion of honest jurisprudence. And the cases will publish forever the discouraging truth that the Supreme Court of the United States favors some laws over others, and is prepared to do whatever it takes to uphold and assist its favorites.
It is quite shocking that the Chief Justice, roberts, doesn’t understand how the court is supposed to Constitutionally operate. What a toady loser. May Justice find him.
My take is Justice Roberts was initially blackmailed over his + wife’s illegal adoption of two Irish children. Ireland does not allow foreigners to come in and adopt Irish children and spirit them way back to America. So the Roberts family had the two children sent to a Latin American nation. The Roberts adopted via that Latin American nation
But now I think he has internalized being an Obama stooge and doesn’t need to be blackmailed anymore.
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It is now quite evident that the two Children were from Ireland. Even wikipedia references these adoptions at the time of Roberts’ confirmation, and indicates that the children were of Irish birth.
However Irish law 1) prohibits the adoption of Children to non-residents, and 2) also does not permit private adoptions, but rather has all adoptions go through a public agency.
Evidently Roberts arranged for this adoption through some sort of trafficking agency, that got the children out of Ireland and into that Latin American country, from which they were adopted, thereby circumventing two Irish laws — entirely illegal, but perhaps quasi-legitimized by the birth mothers (two) transporting the children out of Ireland.
Undoubtedly Roberts and his wife spent a great deal of money for this illegal process, circumventing Irish laws and arranging for the transit of two Irish children from separate birth-mothers to a foreign nation. Come 2012, those two children have been with the Roberts’ for roughly 10 years, since they were adopted as “infants”. - See more at: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/tea-party-nation-wonders-if-john-roberts-was-blackmailed-uphold-health-care-reform#sthash.bpZxi85E.dpuf
Gymnastics implies the skilful manipulation of physics (law.)
What SCOTUS did was like the “Matrix” fighting, completely ignoring physics (law) and making it up as you go.
Lawlessness.
Justice Roberts, you are no Neo.
If congressional intent is the standard, then I should be allowed to have nuclear weapons, cannons, rocket launchers, and anything else I want to defend myself, as per the intent of the 2d amendment.