Posted on 06/25/2015 9:40:57 AM PDT by Starman417
John Roberts is a liar.
Acting as Obama's champion for the second time, The Supreme Court has upheld Obamacare.
From the ruling:
The argument that the phrase “established by the State” would be superfluous if Congress meant to extend tax credits to both State and Federal Exchanges is unpersuasive. This Court’s “preference for avoiding surplusage constructions is not absolute.”Roberts has interpreted the law to mean something other than what is written in order to save it. At one time he promised not to do that.Lamie v. United States Trustee
, 540 U. S. 526, 536. And rigorous application of thatcanon does not seem a particularly useful guide to a fair constructionof the Affordable Care Act, which contains more than a few examples of inartful drafting. The Court nevertheless must do its best, “bear-ing in mind the ‘fundamental canon of statutory construction that the words of a statute must be read in their context and with a view to their place in the overall statutory scheme.’ ”
Utility Air Regulatory Group v. EPA
, 573 U. S. ___, ___. Pp. 9–15. (c) Given that the text is ambiguous, the Court must look to the broader structure of the Act to determine whether one of Section 36B’s “permissible meanings produces a substantive effect that is compatible with the rest of the law.”
United Sav. Assn. of Tex. v. Timbers of Inwood Forest Associates, Ltd.
, 484 U. S. 365, 371. Here, the statutory scheme compels the Court to reject petitioners’ interpretation because it would destabilize the individual insurance market in any State with a Federal Exchange, and likely create the very “death spirals” that Congress designed the Act to avoid. Under petitioners’ reading, the Act would not work in a State with a Federal Exchange. As they see it, one of the Act’s three major reforms—the tax credits—would not apply. And a second major reform—the cov-erage requirement—would not apply in a meaningful way, because so many individuals would be exempt from the requirement without the tax credits. If petitioners are right, therefore, only one of the Act’s three major reforms would apply in States with a Federal Exchange.The combination of no tax credits and an ineffective coverage re-quirement could well push a State’s individual insurance market intoa death spiral. It is implausible that Congress meant the Act to op-erate in this manner. Congress made the guaranteed issue and community rating requirements applicable in every State in the Nation, but those requirements only work when combined with the coverage requirement and tax credits. It thus stands to reason that Congress meant for those provisions to apply in every State as well.Pp. 15–19.
“We do not consider whether the Act embodies sound policies. That judgment is entrusted to the Nation’s elected leaders.”Yet that is exactly what they did. They protected the political choices. Somehow all the Gruber evidence, which made absolutely clear that the law was written intentionally to be extortionary, meant nothing in the end.“Members of this Court are vested with the authority to interpret the law; we possess neither the expertise nor the prerogative to make policy judgments. Those decisions are entrusted to our Nation’s elected leaders, who can be thrown out of office if the people disagree with them. It is not our job to protect the people from the consequences of their political choices.”
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A government branch which does not operate according to USConstitutional Law, should be disbanded at best. Acting upon supposed _legal_ traditions instead of law as defined by USConstition is just brazen lawlessness; at worst this is treason.
I ask you to carefully consider the words of Oliver Cromwell, Dissolution of the Long Parliament, given to the House of Commons, 20 April 1653:
“It is high time for me to put an end to your sitting in this place, which you have dishonored by your contempt of all virtue, and defiled by your practice of every vice; ye are a factious crew, and enemies to all good government; ye are a pack of mercenary wretches, and would like Esau sell your country for a mess of pottage, and like Judas betray your God for a few pieces of money.
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Is there a single virtue now remaining amongst you? Is there one vice you do not possess? Ye have no more religion than my horse; gold is your God; which of you have not bartered your conscience for bribes? Is there a man amongst you that has the least care for the good of the Commonwealth?
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Ye sordid prostitutes have you not defiled this sacred place, and turned the Lords temple into a den of thieves, by your immoral principles and wicked practices? Ye are grown intolerably odious to the whole nation; you were deputed here by the people to get grievances redressed, are yourselves gone! So! Take away that shining bauble there, and lock up the doors.
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In the name of God, go!”
He`s being blackmailed.
I hope so because if he is doing this freely then he is really screwed up.
And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.
Love the Cromwell quote. Would that he we had some Cromwells of our own.
Well, Reagan appointed O’Connor, the Communist.
Just had to achieve the “woman” thing.
“Congress no longer has any purpose”
No, they don’t. They give the Executive Branch whatever it wants, passes laws based on who pays them, and the courts nullify the laws they do pass.
Congress did not write this “law”. John Gruber constructed this mess. Congress didn’t even read it. Nazi Pelosi told us that we had to pass it to see what was in it. Now the supremes codified an unconstitutional law that Congress didn’t write or even read.
And they expect us to follow the laws?
The feds threw contract law out the window with the mortgage mess. They just threw Constitutional law out the window for political reasons. And when they take the side of gay “marriage”, they will have thrown common law out the window.
“We have nothing to fear from Senator Obama”. John McCain.
He`s being blackmailed.
I'm hearing these RUMORS all over the 'net and on various conservative talk radio shows. Is there any hard evidence of these things? (I hope so)
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