[annieokie]

I suspect that each of these cases will go back to the Supreme, with the same outcome as before.

Any reason to think it wouldn't? I'm open for Hope. What will Roberts do?

The whole healthcare package is so convoluted, each piece of it will wind up in the courts, but giving the administration time to rethink and revise at will.

[muawiyah]

The issue that won the day for Obamugabe was whether or not ObamaKKKare was a tax or a justifiable action taken under the commerce clause.

Roberts said it was a tax that was constitutionally permissable and the four witches had to go along with him ~ or lose.

So, what will Roberts say about religious rights?

It may go something like this ~ (1) you gots' ta' pay your taxes boy, (2) but an insurance premium isn't a tax, (3) you don't have to buy a policy that causes you to violate conscience.

Now that ought to put enough administrative burden on the death panel part of the whole shebang to bring it crashing down.

My logic follows pretty much from the route taken in justifying non-profit group postage rates ~ it's an immense body of law but it comes down to two simple ideas ~ you have to pay taxes, but you can evade actions that cause you to violate conscience. So tax resisters go to jail, but conscientious objectors do noncombat duty.

Roberts knowingly laid down the basis for extracting the federal government from personal affairs.