Roberts made it clear in the last decision that it is up to Congress to change the law if they want to change it.
These idiot Republicans with all their outrage are an embarrassment.
If Congress would do its job there would be no need for Judicial activism.
Anybody who thought Roberts would change his position was delusional. BTW it was a 6-3 decision and even had he switched to appease the GOP political hacks who confuse a Conservative Judicial philosophy with a political one the outcome would have been the same.
“Roberts made it clear in the last decision that it is up to Congress to change the law if they want to change it.”
I think I recall this, and see the reasoning behind it. Congress did not need Robert’s go ahead, they could have made many many changes or got rid of the whole thing if they wanted to.
The Supreme Court is what it is, unfortunately.
What’s more unfortunate, is those sorry arsed traitorous RINO’s. Totally going against the grain of the voters and our traditional culture.
Figuratively speaking, I see the potential for a huge bloodbath at the polls next election with many Republicans voted out. We might wind up with a prez like Cruz, but he will have a dem congress to deal with.
-PJ
Assuming they took up that task, what are the chances the current president would approve it?
I am not sure I understand the logic of this. Congress was not a party in this case. The plaintiffs were individuals who wanted the law to be enforced as enacted, not to be changed at the whim of the executive. The chief justice, in this case as in the first case, took the position that a workable national health care system was of such importance that the court was justified in rewriting the law through interpretation.
I am not generally a fan of this congress but to put the onus on them to enact a 2nd law specifying that they really meant what they said in the first law is ridiculous. Even if the law as enacted did not conform with the intent of some members of congress or even if there was a drafting error, they had the power and responsibility to get it correct before enacting it into law. The proper course would have been to say that if Congress wanted to have the provisions apply in all states they could enact a law specifying such, not the other way around.
Given the history of this law, when it still does not work even after two Supreme Court rescue missions, what happens. Does the executive and court rewrite it again or do they finally buck it back to the congress.
Congress wrote the law clearly and deliberately. In absence of any constitutional issue, the Supreme Court was obliged to accept it was written, wisely or unwisely. Instead, they chose to fix Congress's malevolent, scheming mistake!
These idiot Republicans with all their outrage are an embarrassment.
If Congress would do its job there would be no need for Judicial activism.
SCOTUS today took it upon themselves to change a law which was perfectly clear, if utterly unwise.
The 'Rat-controlled Congress wrote the law as they did to induce red-state governors to fall into line in its implementation or face a voter backlash. However, the 'Rats miscalculated their political gambit. The red states deigned not to comply, as was their right, thereby kicking a hot potato back into the lap of Congress.
Now, in a lawless decision, the Supreme Court has seen fit to rescue Congress, to snatch that hot potato from their lap.
The takeaway? SCOTUS is scum for defiling the law!
The upshot: The GOP is relieved at not being obliged to fix ObamaCare with a Traitor still in the White House!