SKOTUS and The Chief Kangaroo

common sense ^ | 6/28/15 | Vanity

[RightGuy]

SKOTUS and The Chief Kangaroo

Chief Kangaroo John Roberts, with his tortured opinion in King v. Burwell, has literally turned the high court into “a mock court in which the principles of law and justice are disregarded or perverted,” as Merriam-Webster defines “kangaroo court.” Should the high court now be called SKOTUS - Supreme Kangaroos of the United States?

In his second major ruling on the Affordable Care Act – “Obamacare” – Roberts has once again seemingly succumbed to White House pressure to uphold the law, given his obvious legal gymnastics in finding a way, any way, to justify the act as constitutional. His method? He simply read into the plain language of the statute that which isn’t there, by finding that “state” didn’t really mean “state” but that it actually also meant “federal government.”

Bizarre? Yes, but not so surprising given his similarly contorted decision in the first Obamacare case, National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius, decided in 2012, where he found that a “penalty” was really a “tax”. Now everyone knows that a tax is certainly a penalty but, constitutionally speaking, a penalty is definitely not a tax, unless that is the means used to justify the ends of upholding the law and caving to the intense White House pressure leading up to the decision.

Yes, it seems this Harvard-educated legal “skolar” continues to be more concerned with his popularity and acceptance by the Georgetown crowd than following the strict principles of constitutional jurisprudence.

Maybe the Chief Kangaroo isn’t so smart after all and perhaps his penchant for being fuzzy about the clear meaning of the precise language of the constitution is simply in his DNA.

Remember, he was the genius who not once, but twice, screwed up the simple, straightforward Oath of Office while administering it to the President on January 20, 2009. You know, those thirty-seven words right there in Article Two, Section One of the United States Constitution. Even this the Chief Kangaroo hopped and stomped all over.

[Texas Eagle]

Chief Kangaroo. I love it.

[Texas Eagle]

Perhaps we should change the stars on our flag to bananas. To represent the fact that we’ve been fundamentally transformed into a banana republic, that’s why!

[Logical me]

Supreme Court has once again proved they are nothing but a political bunch of jackasses and this Court should be disbanded and reorganized with term limits.

[immadashell]

This guy is another David Souter.

[going hot]

Supreme Court has once again proved they are nothing but a political bunch of jackasses and this Court should be disbanded and reorganized with term limits.

ASAP

[Alberta's Child]

For all the flaws of ObamaCare, at least Roberts has been consistent in his rulings. At the core of these rulings -- where he ended up in the majority in the ObamaCare case and in the minority in the "gay marriage" case -- is an aversion to overturn an existing statute on grounds that are pretty inconsequential. I call them "inconsequential" because the plaintiffs in both of the major cases have barely had any standing to file lawsuits in the first place. Determining whether state or Federal exchanges (or both) were written into ObamaCare is hardly an issue of consequence in the larger scheme of things. In these cases, Roberts has determined that Congress should do its job and fix the stupid law itself. I may not like the end result, but he does have a point there.

The real test for ObamaCare will come when legitimate cases involving personal rights and liberty are brought before the court. I have said from the beginning that the religious liberty cases would be the strongest challenges to ObamaCare, and Roberts' original determination that ObamaCare is somehow a "tax" may actually end up making a very strong case for the plaintiffs in those cases.

[Fungi]

The chief kangaroo has had two seizures. Is it conceivable this marsupial is an epileptic and has hid his condition? Just asking.

[FreeAtlanta]

Roberts shall hence forth and forever be known as “Chief Kangaroo Justice Roberts.”

[hosepipe]

Kangaroo Court.... exactly..

[Ray76]

[Forty-Niner]

He’s the Chief Roo of the United States Kangaroo Court.

[who knows what evil?]

Sotomayor and Kagen...loooookin’ good.

[Regulator]

Two things he’s done...

- Confused the plural “The States...” with the singular “The state”; one is physical and refers to real entities and the other is singular and is an adjective referring to the conceptual “state”

- Refused to force both Kagan and Ginsburg from recusing themselves for gross bias in the Obergefell case. That’s his job as Chief Justice. Sotomayor too, but she’s been more reserved in her off court opinions

[originalbuckeye]

Why has no one pointed out that the meaning of the word ‘marriage’ has meant simply ‘the union of a man and a woman’’, for thousands of years? Nowhere is the word ‘love’ mentioned or the word ‘children’. All the ‘Supremes’ did was decree that words can mean anything you want them to mean now. Which word is next?

[Vaduz]

Congress can over ride court but we know how that’s going to turn out members of the same clan.

[justa-hairyape]

No man. Roberts is actually a genius dude. Just wait. You will see his master plan. /sarc.

[justa-hairyape]

No man. Roberts is actually a genius dude. Just wait. You will see his master plan. /sarc.