Retired justice says Supreme Court likely to uphold health care law
To paraphrase Pelosi, have they read it...
Posted on 09/29/2011 2:07:32 PM PDT by Red Steel
Ninety-one-year-old retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens told Bloomberg News that he thinks President Obama's health care law will pass constitutional muster.
He referenced a 2005 Supreme Court decision that held the federal government could outlaw state-sanctioned medical marijuana even if the substance didn't cross state lines, which was based on a broad interpretation of the commerce clause.
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And of course, the Federal Government can mandate that terminally ill patients can smoke only Federal Government supplied marijuana to ease their pain.
So let’s see, an old leftist, activist justice is saying that Obama care passes constitutional muster . . . why am I not surprised?
That’s why the doddering old fool is retired:
“He referenced a 2005 Supreme Court decision that held the federal government could outlaw state-sanctioned medical marijuana even if the substance didn’t cross state lines”
Nobody was forcing anyone to buy Marijuana. Obamacare forces people to buy insurance. Big difference - MORON!
Amazing..
91 years old, and retired, and Stevens still manages to be wrong on every issue....
Ya gotta admire the consistency... ;)
Even though 80% of the people in this country don’t want ObamaCare? Amazing.....just amazing.
Worst thing that ever happened to Americans - “the commerce clause”
I’m pretty sure John Paul Stevens has been dead for quite some time. This must be a mistake.
Because of this argument. Whether or not it is good is for legal scholars to decide, but just because it came from his lips does not make it automatically invalid.
Too much ad hominem around here lately. It's illogical and lazy.
Between the ears anyway.
It’s not the Commerce Clause’s fault, it’s the Progressivists’ abuse of it in the name of a “living Constitution”.
Figures this douchebag was named by the RINO disaster Gerald Ford.
Dear Justice Stevens. The fed can outlaw medical marijuana because marijuana is already illegal. Duh....
John Paul Stevens is one of the disillusioned illogical crowd that thinks there is a “Right” for a “marriage” of two persons determined by dysfunctional, destructive, nihilistic behaviors. Come to think of it...he probably believes polygamy should be legal also.
He totally disregards legal definitions and precedents and the Constitution of the US which states that Just Law is based on Right Reason according to Nature. It is the fundamental principle of our legal system....he adopts Wrong reason according to Barney Frank.
Retired justice says Supreme Court likely to uphold health care law
To paraphrase Pelosi, have they read it...
This makes me nervous. I hope Mark Levin addresses this today.
Poor Stevens, he must be looking at the Cuban Constitution.
It is true.
They didn’t ens Campaign Finance reform and they didn’t protect property rights when they got the chance.
SCOTUS is totally unreliable.
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