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Obamacare’s Chances Of Survival Are Looking Better And Better
FIVETHIRTYEIGHT ^ | 03/06/2015 | Oliver Roeder

Posted on 03/06/2015 9:00:03 AM PST by SeekAndFind

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To: Talisker

[[It doesn’t. FYI, Robert’s single question indicated his antagonistic position to the argument that the legal passage under question was ambiguous]]

I beg to differ- Roberts has indicated by his questioning that he believes it’s up to presidents to interpret the details of the case/HC law- I can’t remember exactly how he worded it, but it seemed to indicate he was going to allow the law, then let presidents repeal or reenact the law as they see fit- which is in lien with his previous statement about the passage of the HC law I nthe first place that the supreme court’s job is ‘not to protect people from poor choices in elections” or something along this line-


21 posted on 03/06/2015 9:56:01 AM PST by Bob434
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To: Talisker

[[Make no mistake -the Court is about to rule on it’s own relevancy here. Because if they rule that the actual law can be openly broken by an Agency’s claimed interpretative needs,]]

Again, just a further point- Roberts has indicated it seems that he is going to allow president can break or reinforce the law according to their interpretive needs- I wish I had book marked the article discussing Robert’s question and indication-


22 posted on 03/06/2015 9:58:20 AM PST by Bob434
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To: stephenjohnbanker

This should have been closed for discussion in the first half hour.It was a no-brainer. We lost.


I’m not so sure.

If we DID lose, I’m anxious to see how they try to alter the plain definition of words. It will be high comedy if nothing else.


23 posted on 03/06/2015 10:07:26 AM PST by cuban leaf (The US will not survive the obama presidency. The world may not either.)
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To: Bob434
I beg to differ- Roberts has indicated by his questioning that he believes it’s up to presidents to interpret the details of the case/HC law- I can’t remember exactly how he worded it, but it seemed to indicate he was going to allow the law, then let presidents repeal or reenact the law as they see fit- which is in lien with his previous statement about the passage of the HC law I nthe first place that the supreme court’s job is ‘not to protect people from poor choices in elections” or something along this line-

That's not at all what happened. Robert's question drew attention to the point that the Agency would be claiming to be making a "legal" interpretation of a law that had been sent back to them for being illegally ambiguous. He was pointing out the contradictory, and even hypocritical, nature of the claims of normalcy and appropriate due process the Government's Attorney was making.

In other words, his question led the GA to admit that he felt that if the USSC allowed a the situation to be ambiguous instead of ruling against the government outright, then the Agency would be thereby empowered to replace the Court in the determination of interpreting the legality of the matter.

This is how a Chief Justice points out that the government is asking the Court to invalidate it's own existence.

24 posted on 03/06/2015 10:12:49 AM PST by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: cuban leaf

” I’m anxious to see how they try to alter the plain definition of words”

I presume you read the Roberts opinion. You can’t get any worse than that.


25 posted on 03/06/2015 10:15:30 AM PST by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) (GOPe is that easy to read))
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To: Sans-Culotte

When Roberts first voted in the majority “not constitutional” and then flipped his vote to “constitutional”, there were conspiracy theories he was blackmailed.
Now that we know the NSA has files on everyone, the feds hacked Congresspeople’s computers, spyware on Sharon Atkinson’s system, now the theory that the feds had blackmail on Roberts and used it is much more likely.


26 posted on 03/06/2015 10:18:37 AM PST by tbw2
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To: Talisker
And I thought it differently from that.

I heard him to ask if an ambiguous law means the President wins vs the law is kicked back to Congress to resolve the ambiguity?

In other words, an ambiguous law is an unenforceable law, and an unenforceable law is an unconstitutional law. The solution is not to let this president decide and then have the next president decide otherwise, the solution is to declare it either unconstitutional and kick it back to Congress to resolve the ambiguity or to say the law is as its written and no ambiguity exists.

But either way, ambiguous law does NOT mean the President decides.

-PJ

27 posted on 03/06/2015 10:27:47 AM PST by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: SeekAndFind

What happens with that if there’s a TIE?

Good question.

Sadly, many here look at this as a game of checkers or tic-tac-too, rather an in-depth chess game it really is.


28 posted on 03/06/2015 10:28:48 AM PST by X-spurt (CRUZ missile - armed and ready.)
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To: Sgt_Schultze

This case before the SCOTUS is not as to the constitutionality of the nobamacare law itself, which kagan would be in conflict, but rather is to the constitutionality of the Executive Branch to make or change laws without the consent of Congress.


29 posted on 03/06/2015 10:33:09 AM PST by X-spurt (CRUZ missile - armed and ready.)
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To: Talisker

Well thought and well said.


30 posted on 03/06/2015 10:36:14 AM PST by X-spurt (CRUZ missile - armed and ready.)
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To: SeekAndFind

The only right left in America is the right to be robbed by the dependent classes.


31 posted on 03/06/2015 10:47:07 AM PST by depressed in 06 (America conceived in liberty, dies in slavery.)
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To: tbw2
When Roberts first voted in the majority “not constitutional” and then flipped his vote to “constitutional”, there were conspiracy theories he was blackmailed.

The only problem I have with the "Roberts was blackmailed" theory is that it is difficult for me to conceive of anything worth getting blackmailed over in Washington. We've had a horndog president getting oral sex in the White House, a D.C. mayor caught snorting coke (and now they want to build a statue of him), a congressman whose boyfriend ran a rent-boy operation out of his apartment, and so forth. Unless Roberts was filmed killing and eating a baby, I don't see what they can have on him.

32 posted on 03/06/2015 10:55:25 AM PST by Sans-Culotte (Psalm 14:1 ~ The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.”)
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To: Sans-Culotte

The whole blackmail thing to me falls apart on the notion that material capable of blackmailing the Chief Justice into changing his vote on a single (if incredibly important) issue wouldn’t be used instead to pressure him to resign.

Its not like Roberts hasnt been fairly center-right on most of the other issues before the court. Why settle flipping him for a single victory on Obamacare when Obama could get appoint a fifth Liberal Justice as well as a new Liberal Chief Justice?

Occams Razor applies, IMHO. Roberts was either concerned about the non-partisan appearance of The Court, or wanted to teach the American public a lesson about the consequences of their electoral choices.


33 posted on 03/06/2015 11:02:42 AM PST by tanknetter
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To: Sans-Culotte

There is the possibility that his adoption of his children from Ireland was illegal.


34 posted on 03/06/2015 11:04:37 AM PST by tbw2
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To: stephenjohnbanker

I presume you read the Roberts opinion. You can’t get any worse than that.


It was pretty bad, but this is much more plain. It will be interesting if they find for the FedGov.


35 posted on 03/06/2015 11:05:21 AM PST by cuban leaf (The US will not survive the obama presidency. The world may not either.)
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To: Talisker

I hope you’re right.


36 posted on 03/06/2015 11:06:01 AM PST by b4its2late (A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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To: Political Junkie Too

Roberts referred to “Chevron,” a 1984 decision that actually allows an Agency to interpret ambiguous laws within certain fairly strict parameters. Is based on the idea that in complex issues, laws overlap and can seem somewhat contradictory, but that that is an inescapable situation and so should be accepted, and more, that it should not invalidate the law but allow the Agency to interpret it “within reason.”

While it is heavily cited by the government to support power grabs, it is obviously a very dangerous ruling in the wrong hands. Roberts indicated his understanding of that danger by asking the GA if he “accepted” Chevron, perhaps at all but certainly in this case.

At that point the GA went into full shifty lawyer mode. Because if he said yes, and accepted the easy solution of arguing that the IRS (in this case) should adjudicate the implementation of federal subsidies, then (as Roberts pointed out), the next administration could simply reverse that interpretation. So instead he suggested that the Court simply rule that it is not an ambiguous situation at all.

However, Roberts has his own shifty lawyer mode, and that was the answer he wanted confirmed. Because in fact, there is NO legal ambiguity in this matter - the law is perfectly plain and clear, and has a demonstrable history of Congress writing it specifically as it is written.

What has, therefore, created the claimed “ambiguity” is the fact that the federal government had deliberately broken that law and gone ahead and provided subsidies to millions of people they had no authority - by the actual law inner consideration here - to make payments to. And now, the government is literally pointing to the results of their breaking the law and claiming the fact that they could successfully break the law and make those illegal payments means that the law they broke is ambiguous!

But that’s not the topper - what Roberts got the GA to admit is that he wants the Court to legalize this illegality by ruling the law is not ambiguous (which it isn’t) but actually means the OPPOSITE of what it clearly and simply says. Because if the government broke it, then it has therefore BEEN interpreted as the opposite of its plain meaning BY the fact it was illegally broken!

It’s EXACTLY like claiming that candy bars should be free BECAUSE so many are stolen, that the size of the theft and the numbers of people who would go without candy bars if stealing them was illegal MEANS that the criminal statutes against stealing candy bars should be legally interpreted as the OPPOSITE if what they say - BECAUSE they’re so widely broken.

And, of course, if such a ruling is actually made, then, quite literally, the Court erases itself, because it literally would be ruling that no matter what law is passed, it only actually means whatever the government actually chooses to DO, even if it does the exact opposite of the law - in fact, ESPECIALLY if it does the exact opposite of the law. So, in such an environment, the Court literally would be ruling that it would cease to exist as the interpreter of the law.

And that’s what Roberts was pointing out with his question.


37 posted on 03/06/2015 11:06:19 AM PST by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: stephenjohnbanker

I presume you read the Roberts opinion. You can’t get any worse than that.


It was pretty bad, but this is much more plain. It will be interesting if they find for the FedGov.

Thing is, what a lot of people are forgetting is that plenty of people involved in creating this law have gone on record stating that they intentionally left the FedGov exchange concept out of it to give states incentive to start exchanges. Now the fedgov does it without authority of any kind and they argue the law says they can?

That is just stupid.


38 posted on 03/06/2015 11:07:20 AM PST by cuban leaf (The US will not survive the obama presidency. The world may not either.)
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To: cuban leaf

Beyond stupid.


39 posted on 03/06/2015 11:08:52 AM PST by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) (GOPe is that easy to read))
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To: Talisker

Great post! It also gives me hope.


40 posted on 03/06/2015 11:23:20 AM PST by cuban leaf (The US will not survive the obama presidency. The world may not either.)
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