Big Deal!!! Very, Very Big Deal. Judges who can read English. Refreshing to say the least.
Thanks for posting.
The decision, in my view, is well worth reading, as a refreshing and very understandable judgement.
Basically it says ‘Congress is free to change the law it put into place in the first place. When it put that law into place, it wrote the language of the law in plain English. We (the present court) have no ability to interpret what they might have meant or what they forgot to add or to imagine what the consequences might be of this or that interpretation. We are here to rule on the law as written and as written, the law plainly says what it plainly says: that the IRS rule authorizing tax credits and cost-sharing subsidies for the purchase of health insurance in federal exchanges violates the text of the PPACA.
The case (even if affirmed on the inevitable appeal) does not “gut” or “destroy” anything. On the contrary, the court is upholding the Act as written. Congress is free to amend the ACA to provide for tax credits in both state and federal exchanges, if that is the legislative will.Exactly right.The role of this Court is to apply the statute as it is written – even if we think some other approach might ‘accor[d] with good policy.’
Obamacare Fans: THIS IS A MUST READ.
Oh, you’re not an Obamacare fan? Then its a MUST-MUST READ.
This thread is not getting the attention it deserves.
Sadly the supreme court is political, and does not care about the letter of the law. And they will make the final decision.
This judge speaks the truth. When he says that the courts have no right to change the language of the law(and gives precedents) then this judge is directly slapping the USSC because they did change the language of the Obama care law in order to declare it valid. By saying it was a tax then the USSC broke the very laws it was suppose to protect. Don’t expect anything different from them here.
The Decision is a pretty good read, the other monkees with hammers that dissented should be ashamed of themselves and Congress should bring them before hearings to see if they are COMPETENT to be a Judge, they demonstrated their inability to READ already, Congress should remove them from the Bench, it may destroy their honor and reputation, but the REPUBLIC will be SAVED.