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Supreme Court extends health care arguments

Excerpt:

The Supreme Court has announced it will allow a full six hours for oral arguments over constitutional challenges to President Obama's health care law, granting the case the longest hearing in recent history.

The justices said Tuesday morning they would lengthen the hearing by an additional 30 minutes, after both the administration and parties challenging the law had asked the court to spend not 60 but 90 minutes on a tax law known as the Anti-Injunction Act.

The question is whether the act stands in the way of judicial action on the challenge until after the health care law fully goes into effect.

With the extra 30 minutes, the court is slated to spend 90 minutes on the Anti-Injunction Act, 120 minutes on the law's individual mandate that all Americans purchase health insurance, 90 minutes on whether just parts of the act can be invalidated while allowing other parts to stand, and an hour on the Medicaid expansion contained in the new law over a three-day period in March.

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Oh boy .. not liking the sound of this ...

[STARWISE]

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[TigersEye]

Sounds like the fix is in.

[thouworm]

Talk about a headline guaranteed to make a stomach drop! 2016 far too late to save America.

[Just mythoughts]

IF the newly elected Republican House of Representatives refuse to pull the funding, why would the Supremes be in a hurry to end this madness? I am so glad we got those Bush appointees to the court. Thank you snarling arlen. The list just keeps getting longer in how the elite intend on destroying the ‘middle class’.

[Lmo56]

First enacted in 1867, the Tax Anti-Injunction Act sweepingly forbids any court from hearing any case in which any person attempts to prevent the assessment or collection of a tax. Once the tax has been assessed and collected, however, a court may hear a case on it.

Let us not put the cart before the horse.

The question before the Court THIS YEAR is whether Obamacare is a "tax", as the Administration contends. Or if it is an unprecedented "requirement" to purchase a service [with a fine, if the requirement is not met] - as the States contend.

If the Court rules it to be a "tax" [this year], then it cannot be contested until AFTER the tax is collected [in 2015].

HOWEVER, if the Court rules it to be a "requirement", it can then rule THIS YEAR as to whether the "requirement" is constitutional.

The Tax Anti-Injunction Act WOULD NOT apply in this case since it would have been ruled a "requirement" as opposed to a "tax" ...

[Irenic]

....how depressing.

[Katarina]

This is VERY bad news.Scary news!!!

[A. Morgan]

Just another reason to vote for Newt Gingrich!

[HiTech RedNeck]

They’re really begging the body politic to fix the problem. Once they dug in on letting Kagan participate, they found themselves in a credibility hole.

[Christie at the beach]

The perfect reason to vote in Newton. I am sure he is tired

of the sabotage in our government to where we lose rights.

[SuperLuminal]

Anyone who doesn't think and understand that the only possible solution for this mess is widespread death and destruction are classic examples of Patton's "... craven lake-folk, smeared with fat,..."

The American Marxists have planned, schemed, and worked for 110 years to get to this point. It is ludicrous to think that Reagan's prophecy of a "...thousand years of darkness..." can be avoided any other way.

[mkjessup]

Well, sounds like the Roberts Court is going to be the rubber stamp for 0bamaCare, just as it was for the dubious inauguration of the Kenyan Usurper, sworn in THREE TIMES by Roberts himself.

Hey, maybe the next appointment to the SCOTUS can be somebody like Roland Freisler? (Hell, maybe he’s already there)

[Brad from Tennessee]

ObamaCare is already collapsing under its own weight. This is evidenced by almost 2,000 waivers granted to businesses and unions and the declaration by most states that they can't or won't fund the expansion of Medicaid required by the new law. And this is just the beginning. A monolithic, Soviet style bureaucracy will be needed to administer this Rube Goldberg contraption.

[SueRae]

I think I’m going to be ill.. Our ONLY option is to roundly defeat the 0bama in Novemebr and overwhelmingly take both houses.

[Marguerite]

President Gingrich will sign the Repeal Bill of Obamacare on January 21, 2013.

[SF_Redux]

thats it, this truely shows where the allegiance of SCOTUS lies, and it is not with WE THE PEOPLE

[SF_Redux]

thats it, this truely shows where the allegiance of SCOTUS lies, and it is not with WE THE PEOPLE

[Psycho_Bunny]

DO YOUR JOBS!

[tobyhill]

Very simple reason. The court is expecting it to be repealed by congress and the next President and then it will save them a headache.