Posted on 06/29/2015 3:35:31 AM PDT by markomalley
"Justice [John] Roberts apparently needs medication for schizophrenia because his opinion [on gay marriage] is almost the direct opposite" of the logic in the Obamacare opinion, presidential candidate Mike Huckabee said on Iowa radio show "Mickelson in the Morning" Friday. Roberts dissented from Friday's gay marriage ruling but wrote the majority opinion upholding federal subsidies for Obamacare.
On Thursday "The Supreme Court, with Roberts agreeing, essentially rewrote a law that Congress screwed up — they legislated from the bench," said Huckabee. "They did something they are constitutionally prohibited from doing. That they are restricted from doing. They did it anyway, just to save Obamacare. They made a political decision, not a legal one. They clearly flew in the face of the law."
Friday's decision "did the same thing, except this time I guess Roberts woke up and realized the Supreme Court was becoming the extreme court; it had decided it was no longer just the Supreme Court, it was the Supreme Being. It has today acted as if it could overrule the laws of nature and of nature's God," said the former Arkansas governor. "Today was not a ruling about same-sex marriage, that's what I keep hearing. This was not quality of marriage, this was about redefinition of marriage, and [Antonin] Scalia got it right. The rest of the majority, including [Anthony] Kennedy, got it incredibly wrong."
"Five unelected people in black robes cannot write laws," said Huckabee, an opinion he echoed repeatedly over the weekend. He said that the decision overrides the Constitutional system of the three branches of government. "The courts simply cannot overturn the ultimate authority in the United States under our Constitution: the people themselves," he said.
"This decision ... is almost a complete evisceration of that very principle of checks and balances, and the fact that the court cannot write a law just because they thought what it should be rather than what it is," said Huckabee.
I don't like the Huckster too much, but he nailed it here...
A jail cell would help him sort out his emotions.
He has pointed the finger at Congress and told it to fix the stupid law itself. I can't say I disagree with him on that one.
"I don't like the Huckster too much, but he nailed it here..."
I don't like Huckster at all.
He needs to be impeached.
You got it exactly wrong. He said in the Obamacare ruling last week that the law didn’t really mean state when it clearly said state. In other words, he “fixed” the law to mean “the Union” or “the Federal Government” where it clearly meant the states.
In the gay marriage ruling the next day, he said SCOTUS cannot fix bad law.
Huckabee has it exactly right, except the reason is not schizophrenia, it is craven deception. The only reason he opined as he did on gay marriage is because his vote was not needed to satisfy his progressive masters - so he tried to rebuild his conservative facade.
Roberts is a purely evil man.
My prediction is that Roberts is going to write the majority opinion -- and an eloquent, effective one at that -- in a case that ultimately will overturn key provisions of ObamaCare. Based on what I've seen up to now, I believe it will be one of the many religious liberty cases winding their way through the Federal courts. Remember that Hobby Lobby successfully won a stay against the U.S. government in their ObamaCare challenge on these very grounds, which have always (and I've said this since 2010) been the strongest basis for a legal challenge to ObamaCare.
First, impeach Roberts.
No.
He needs to be IMPEACHED.
Lotsa luck on that, you balless RINOs.
As long as the districts and circuits follow the lead, SCOTUS won't have any reason to hear one of the cases you allude to.
After the obamacare case and now the gay marriage case - where religious liberty and state’s rights were eviscerated, you really believe that?
I passed by a television this morning tuned to CNN. Some idiotic CNN guy - Roberts I think - state that Governors put their hand on the Bible and swear to uphold the laws so how can the reconcile not doing that with this decision? I thought, hell, Obama does that all the time. Watching the gymnastics contortions of a liberal mind is scary.
You been spending too much time in Denver smoking those legal joints and it has fogged your ability to reason.
Actually, Roberts needs to be impeached. It might prevent any further cases of “schizophrenia”.
Exactly right.
RE: I don’t like Huckster at all.
In this case, the phrase “The enemy of my enemy is my friend” applies.
Why not just say it, Hucky?
ROBERTS IS COMPROMISED.
But, I don’t want him to step down during the Obama admin.
But... he and the conservative justices could simply refuse to hear any case for the next 2 years.
There is not a chance that Roberts will be party to any ruling overturning ObamaCare. He has already laid his marker in service to this horrendous law - including his ruling last week; going so far as to re-write bad law to make it palatable to his sensibilities. He did the same earlier when he willingly called a penalty a tax in order to strike down the constitutional challenge to requiring everyone to buy medical insurance.
Roberts has gone over. You rest your hopes in him at your peril; he will betray you every time his vote is needed to uphold conservative values.
The problem is Huckabee is a Stalking Horse. He’s there to spoil and split conservative votes. He has to say stuff like this to keep his street cred so he can bring more ruin.
Incorrect. The clear text of the Obamacare Subsidy portion was simply ignored, and they guessed what was meant instead. That is a judicial activist overturning of the English language.
Rush Limbaugh, in 2008, stated we were in a Post-Constitutional phase.
Mark Levin, in 2012, stated we were in a Post-Law phase.
I, in 2015, state we are in a Post-English-Language phase.
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