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:
(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.investors.com ...
Where is the “BARF ALERT?”
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.
The Barf Alert was on Amars op-ed yesterday in the LA Times.
It was a real chunk-blower, that’s fersure.
What kind of idiot believes that a law requiring citizens to pay into an illegally passed law is constitutional?
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.
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.
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
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.
“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.
Thanks for posting this blistering rebuttal to obamacare.
“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.
You may well be right, unfortunately.
“Roe v Wade is the modern Dredd Scott.”
Yes it is. With more fatal consequence.
“Roe v Wade is the modern Dredd Scott.”
Yes it is. With more fatal consequence.
and more fetal consequences...
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“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.
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.
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.
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.
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