Posted on 06/20/2021 11:34:18 AM PDT by John Semmens
A suit brought by 18 states challenging the constitutionality of Obamacare was dismissed in the US Supreme Court by a vote of 7-2. The decision was written by Justice Stephen Breyer who decreed that “these states lack standing to challenge this law.” Justices John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett, Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor, and Clarence Thomas concurred. Justices Samuel Alito and Paul Gorsuch dissented.
The states had argued that since the tax penalty for not purchasing Obamacare was repealed during the Trump Administration the basis for the prior Supreme Court decision upholding the law was eliminated. Breyer rejected this argument, saying that “the reasoning behind the earlier decision was fallacious. There was no need to rely on the government’s power to tax as a justification. The government’s mission to promote the general welfare is sufficient to support any action it takes to support this mission. If Congress decides that everyone must buy health insurance because it is in the general welfare to do so no one has standing to challenge this except a higher authority. In this case, that higher authority is the President of the United States.”
Breyer pointed out that “in juxtaposition to the plea of 18 states we have an explicit request from President Biden to keep Obamacare in place. Eighteen states aren’t even a majority of the states. In contrast, the President speaks for the entire nation. A minority of states does not represent the will of the people. The wishes of the duly elected president does. Since Obamacare was enacted to promote the general welfare it is in compliance with the preamble of the Constitution. The fact that Obamacare proved more expensive than anticipated is irrelevant. Almost every government program is more expensive than anticipated. If expense was deemed to be sufficient evidence of harm to the general welfare few programs would survive scrutiny.”
Justice Alito called the “lack of standing” argument “deeply flawed. Millions of Americans were damaged by this law. The fact that not every state chose to object to the damages inflicted on residents of their state doesn’t invalidate the standing of the 18 states that did. By not hearing this case we have given government carte blanche to inflict whatever harmful program it desires and barred its victims from any legal recourse against it.”
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When the Republicans had total control of the Government, they failed to repeal Obamacare, even though they all pledged to do so, asking the courts to do what they failed to do was never going to happen.....
Things like Obamacare needed to be repealed, if the Republicans had any balls they would have done so instead of asking the courts to do what they didn’t have the nerve to do...
The so called Republicans didn’t eject B. Clinton from the White House. Obama is his “political wild oats”. America is reaping what voters have (or have not) sewn. Ignoring God’s Biblical will is sure error.
Even if all 55 Senate Republicans had held firm, where would the GOP have got the 12 Democrat votes that they would have needed to “eject B. Clinton from the White House.”
You do understand that it takes 67 votes in the Senate to “eject” a President and it has never happened in our history?
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