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Comparing Judge Vinson’s ObamaCare Ruling To Pro-Slavery Dred Scott Decision
IBD's Capital Hill ^ | 2/7/2011 | Ed Carson

Posted on 02/07/2011 7:43:02 AM PST by Slyscribe

Akhil Reed Amar, a professor at Yale Law School, wrote an op-ed in Sunday’s Los Angeles Times regarding Judge Roger Vinson’s ruling striking down ObamaCare because the individual mandate is unconstitutional.

The tone was sneering, saying “first-year law students” understand constitutional law better than Judge Vinson. But that was just a warm-up to comparing the ObamaCare ruling to the infamous pro-slavery Dred Scott decision:

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: amar; judgevinson; obamacare; slavery; vinson
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1 posted on 02/07/2011 7:43:10 AM PST by Slyscribe
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To: Slyscribe

Where is the “BARF ALERT?”


2 posted on 02/07/2011 7:46:11 AM PST by AbolishCSEU (Percentage of Income in CS is inversely proportionate to Mother's parenting of children)
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To: Slyscribe
Actually, a decision upholding Obamacare would be quite a lot like Dred Scott v. Sandford.

In order for the Court to reach a favorable result, they would have to rule that an American has no rights that Congress is bound to respect.

3 posted on 02/07/2011 7:50:17 AM PST by Jim Noble (Reelect Palin 2016)
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To: AbolishCSEU

The Barf Alert was on Amars op-ed yesterday in the LA Times.

It was a real chunk-blower, that’s fersure.


4 posted on 02/07/2011 8:01:07 AM PST by digger48
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To: Slyscribe

What kind of idiot believes that a law requiring citizens to pay into an illegally passed law is constitutional?


5 posted on 02/07/2011 8:01:44 AM PST by Soothesayer (smallpox is not a person)
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To: Slyscribe

Mandate that for the social good all academics, public employees, those elected to public office, and those who hold law degrees, have to live in the same public housing that is provided welfare recipients and I think we’d get to arguments on the limits of the commerce clause and the government in general pretty fast.


6 posted on 02/07/2011 8:02:06 AM PST by Rashputin (Barry is totally insane and being kept medicated and on golf courses to hide the fact)
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To: Slyscribe

I hate to be sneeringly dismissing of the guy’s opinon just cause I believe he may be a Muslim but I just can’t help it.


7 posted on 02/07/2011 8:04:08 AM PST by lastchance (Hug your babies.)
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To: AbolishCSEU

Isn’t the “Barf Alert” reserved for articles that actually set themselves against conservative principles and people? If so, no “Barf Alert” warranted here. The article is favorable to Vinson’s decision, and has links to some proficient take-down’s of Prof Amar’s “constigobbledigook.” See here:

http://volokh.com/2011/02/07/akhil-amars-defense-of-the-individual-mandate/

And here:

http://plf.typepad.com/plf/2011/02/akhil-amars-embarrassing-attempt-to-defend-obamacare.html


8 posted on 02/07/2011 8:04:34 AM PST by Springfield Reformer (Winston Churchill: No Peace Till Victory!)
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To: Slyscribe
Roe v Wade is the modern Dredd Scott.
9 posted on 02/07/2011 8:07:11 AM PST by BenLurkin (This post is not a statement of fact. It is merely a personal opinion -- or humor -- or both)
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To: Springfield Reformer
Don't you realize by now that almost no one ever reads the article? They get apoplectic at the headline and then sit down at the keyboard to fire off a sputtering line or two that has nothing to do with the content of the article.

One of the article's good points: Liberals were unprepared for serious legal challenges to ObamaCare. If Professor Amar’s is any indication, they still aren’t.

10 posted on 02/07/2011 8:10:05 AM PST by livius
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To: Slyscribe

“The tone was sneering, saying “first-year law students” understand constitutional law better than Judge Vinson.”

Actually, first year law students are compelled to parrot the professoriat’s diktat.

Or pay dearly for having an independent thought.


11 posted on 02/07/2011 8:14:46 AM PST by Psalm 144 (Voodoo Republicans - Don't read their lips. Watch their hands.)
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To: Springfield Reformer

Thanks for posting this blistering rebuttal to obamacare.


12 posted on 02/07/2011 8:15:21 AM PST by BenKenobi (one of the worst mistakes anybody can make is to bet against Americans.")
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To: Jim Noble

“Actually, a decision upholding Obamacare would be quite a lot like Dred Scott v. Sandford.”

Exactly: Roger Taney ruled to uphold slavery. Roger Vinson ruled to outlaw it.


13 posted on 02/07/2011 8:15:36 AM PST by DrC
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To: livius

You may well be right, unfortunately.


14 posted on 02/07/2011 8:16:24 AM PST by Springfield Reformer (Winston Churchill: No Peace Till Victory!)
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To: BenLurkin

“Roe v Wade is the modern Dredd Scott.”

Yes it is. With more fatal consequence.


15 posted on 02/07/2011 8:16:36 AM PST by Psalm 144 (Voodoo Republicans - Don't read their lips. Watch their hands.)
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To: Psalm 144

“Roe v Wade is the modern Dredd Scott.”

Yes it is. With more fatal consequence.

and more fetal consequences...

teeman


16 posted on 02/07/2011 8:23:16 AM PST by teeman8r (armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world.)
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To: Slyscribe

“But that was just a warm-up to comparing the ObamaCare ruling to the infamous pro-slavery Dred Scott decision”

If that’s the best they can come up with, libs are in trouble on this issue.


17 posted on 02/07/2011 8:24:53 AM PST by Tublecane
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To: Slyscribe

I seems to recollect— and I never even attended Law school—I seem to recollect that when Taney wrote Dred Scott-it served as a catalyst for the man we know as President Lincoln wrote a speech that quoted Scripture and spoke of a House Divided and how truth is such shall not stand. Then as President Lincoln led the Union in a bloody Civil War— and the Congress acted somewhat questionably in making ratification of the 14th Amendment a necessary requirement for reunification/reentry to the Union. Can’t imagine the pretender in WhiteHouse to react to the Repeal of his ObamaCare or to this decision like
Lincoln responded to Taney—but I can’t compare Obama to Lincoln/or to Reagan—or any AMERICAN President.And would be severely disappointed in the American people if they sided with him in any attempt to start another Civil War.


18 posted on 02/07/2011 8:26:02 AM PST by StonyBurk (ring)
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To: Slyscribe

The old liberal “when in doubt, go for the ad hominem.”

I’ve never understood how Obamacare can be propped under the commerce clause anyway. The companies whom we are being compelled to do business with can only sell their products in one state. Not exactly “interstate” commerce.


19 posted on 02/07/2011 8:35:41 AM PST by IamConservative (Liberalism - the surety of knowing that which cannot be proven.)
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To: Slyscribe

A guy with Islam/Arabis triple part names doesn’t speak for me——ever.

Go can back to whatever country he came from & try to shove this kind of crap down the throats of his own countrymen.

He can buy a one-way ticket, also. Won’t miss him.

Racist, you say? He^^ yes-—& more so each & every day since Nov of 2008.


20 posted on 02/07/2011 8:36:57 AM PST by ridesthemiles
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