Words no longer have meaning if an Exchange that is not established by a State is ‘established by the State.’
Posted on 06/25/2015 10:18:40 AM PDT by Jim Robinson
On Thursday, the Supreme Court released its long-awaited decision on Obamacare’s IRS subsidies under federal health insurance exchanges. And, as expected, the Court rewrote the statute to help President Obama’s signature law.
With each passing day of Supreme Court decisions, conservative principles begin to feel more and more like the survivors of the Scream films: it’s only a matter of time before you are next for the knife.
In King v. Burwell, four citizens sued over Obamacare, alleging that they had been forced to purchase health insurance; they said that the federal health exchange set up in Virigina in absence of a state-created health exchange under Obamacare did not count as a “state exchange” for purposes of the statute, making it illegal for them to receive federal subsidies for their health insurance. Without the subsidies, they would no longer be required to purchase health insurance, since it would be too expensive.
Now, Obamacare’s language is quite clear: it states that only those who buy insurance via state-run health exchanges may receive federal subsidies. This provision was purposefully designed to incentivize states to set up their own exchanges, in order that politicians could take credit for making health insurance more widely available with the help of the federal government. When states turned down the opportunity to set up such exchanges, the scheme collapsed. Or at least it would have, had not President Obama’s IRS casually rewritten the law, and provided federal health insurance subsidies via the federal health exchanges in violation of both the letter and spirit of the law.
But no matter: the law is whatever President Obama says it is...
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.—That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, —That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.—Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States
If the law means what the President (executive branch) says it means....
then we really only need 1 single law.
Conservative Principles?
Heck, the Supremes can’t even get basic English communication right.
The law said “STATES” and they interpreted that to mean “THE IRS”.
They are knowingly making sh*t up.
I think it’s time.
Talk about a sham of a gubamint runamuck..
We are witness to the grossest miscarriage of legalistic torture perpetuated on citizens since roe v wade.
Roberts should be proud,, he stabbed us not once, but twice, in the back.
“Conservative Principles?”
The things that many liberal freepers used FR to scream were bad to the world, repeatedly, in order to help elect lesser evils?
“ROBERTS COURT TORTURES LAW TO SAVE OBAMACARE…AGAIN!”
That’s too kind.
roberts court makes sh*t up to advance communism.
Never mind that.
Roberts has made law irrelevant.
He himself is now meaningless.
Any President is now a dictator.
Law means nothing.
When the rule of law dies and the rule by law supplants it, the rule of the gun and tyranny soon follows.
Is Roberts still acting off the blackmail threat with his illegally-adopted children from Ireland?
Words no longer have meaning if an Exchange that is not established by a State is ‘established by the State.’
My first thought is how do we impeach and remove a Supreme Court justice, including especially the chief. Second, anyone not supporting repeal of Obamacare should be voted out of office. Third, can we use this to get rid of McConnell and Bohner.
King v. Burwell is the Supreme Court’s “Humpty Dumpty” decision, that the written law no longer means what it actually says, but can be modified “at whim” by the president, to mean what he wants it to mean. In effect, the Supreme Court has just decided to cede all of its power to the president.
Through the Looking Glass (1872):
“When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.”
“The question is,” said Alice, “whether you can make words mean so many different things.”
“The question is,” said Humpty Dumpty, “which is to be master — that’s all.”
Even the infamous Warren court wouldn’t twist the express language and intent of legislation to achieve a political end the way this court has.
Of the “lesser of two evils” -
An old cotton farmer, down in Alabama, was sitting out on his front porch one day, when two boll weevils came strolling down the road. One was a big hulking version, and the other was a much smaller specimen. The two boll weevils confronted the farmer, and said, we just looking for a home, and one of us will stay here, and the other will go on down the road. Which one of us are you going to choose.
Farmer replied, well, I reckon the little one, of course.
The larger weevil then asked, how come you picked the little one.
Farmer answered, well, he’s the lesser of two weevils.
Epilogue: both stayed and took up residence.
my guess is that when his two kid that he is being black mailed on turn eighteen that the left will have a big problem because I believe at one point Roberts saw him self as a man of principal and the hard left was able to get him to break all his principals to protect the children he and his wife adopted.
for any that don’t know he adopted two children in south America that turned out were citizens of Ireland and the adoption he and his wife did was illegal, It is believed that those related to the children are holding this over his head controlling what rulings he has been giving in the court. the reason why all of this is not being investigated is the black mail did not start tell Obama was in office and in control of the justice department. plus the reality for Justice Roberts is that because of treaties if the family in Ireland try’s to claim the kids he has 0 chance of keeping them legaly
Long overdue.
I, for one, look forward to catching up on the neighborhood gossip when my Democrat neighbors take me to the killing fields to put the plastic bag over my head.
It will be your so called Republican neighbors.
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