I’m in.
Is Mr. Barnes trying to read obozo's mind or is this what passes for judicial journalism? What is going on here?
So what the WaPo is saying is that politics are a more powerful deciding factor than the law. Nice!
And that is what we’ll have if this court upholds Obamacare.
Did you ever think that our liberties would be hanging by one vote in the Supreme Court?
I’ll bring the rope.
To overthrown the empire and make such justice possible would require a far grander Civil War then the more expedient secession backed up with a combination of International support and a nuclear MAD deterrence against a linclintonan imperial suppression.
Sadly I think our long range hopes for a reclamation and reappointment’s of our liberty must invariably contend upon our practiced ability to put the mutually beneficial & consent of the governed part of republican Government into our Federal government.
Invariably this all comes down to practically restoring the right of revolution to reinforce that core virtue that prohibits a distant majority from tyrannizing a minority.
John Roberts, Do you know that The Obama Administration OK’d Using Aborted Babies’ Brains in Lab Tests?
http://www.lifenews.com/2012/03/16/obama-admin-oks-using-aborted-babies-brains-in-lab-tests/
Obama LOVES partial birth abortion, where a pair of scissors are plunged into a baby’s neck when the baby is halfway out of the birth canal, to sever the baby’s spinal cord...mmm, mmm, mmm.
Americans will be watching how you decide on this...more importantly, so will God.
Sorry if anyone was repulsed by this; it’s the truth, and the Supreme Court NEEDS to be repulsed by it.
I think Buckwheat and the traitorous mercenaries in the secret service out to be worrying more about the DIA than Roberts.
Johnsoncare/Hillarycare/Romneycare/Obamacare/Totalitariancare.
This one may be the totalitarian shiv in the heart of “free” people. Are we witnessing triangulation by totalitarians? The powers-that-be are moving fast. SCOTUS will tell.
FUBO
I’m in.
#&$@!*$ HOLY $%!#...I am never more than an instant away from killing half the people around me.. Should I be locked up for murder now?
“While in that case Angel Raich’s pot was for her own use, “marijuana that is grown at home and possessed for personal use is never more than an instant from the interstate market,” and thus subject to federal regulation, Scalia wrote in a concurring opinion.”
““Because of human susceptibility to disease and accident, we are all potentially never more than an instant” from requiring health care, Verrilli writes — so the government has an interest in making sure that individuals have a way to pay for it.”
Also BULL$%!# - “But [Roberts] may have provided a clue about his views on federal power in a 2010 decision in United States v. Comstock . In that case, he joined the liberal justices in ruling that sexually dangerous prisoners can be detained after their sentences end.
The decision was seen as an important endorsement of the view that Congress has the power to legislate on issues not specifically delegated to it in the Constitution.”
$%&# NO SNAKE CONGRESS $%&#ING DOESN’T!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sorry, but this article just rather pissed me off :/ The Commerce Clause is WAY too overused. Clarence Thomas is the only Justice I really like a lot.
This is nothing but a fantasy and wishful thinking by the Washington Post. Scalia, Thomas, Roberts, and Alito are all a sure bet to at least strike down the individual mandate. The four leftist judges are certain to rule unconstitutionally in favor of fully upholding Obamacare. It’s all coming down to Kennedy, pure and simple. I just hope he hasn’t forgotten how Obama arrogantly and insolently ridiculed the Supreme Court during a nationally televised State-of-the-Union address. And even though the Supreme Court isn’t supposed to take popular public opinion into account, I believe they actually do and there’s no question that ObamaCare has been consistently unpopular from Day 1. The Ohio referendum last November alone was a RESOUNDING rejection of ObamaCare.
I am cautiously optimistic that the U.S. Supreme Court will at least strike down the individual mandate.
I feel like we are being cornered into doing that at some point when all other means fail. When corners, even 8 week old kittens and day old baby chicks will fight despite the odds. I think it was Thomas Jefferson who said that “those who make peaceful revolution impossible, make violent revolution inevitable.”
Maybe they are worried and trying to reassure each other.
Even Scalia has been part of this trend, although he was also in the majority in the two cases in which the court said Congress exceeded its commerce clause powers. But more relevant to the health-care law — and why he might uphold it — is his decision in a 2005 case, Gonzalez v. Raich , which concerned whether the federal government could keep Californians from growing medicinal marijuana for their own use, as state law allowed.
Scalia sided with the government, partly because of the court’s precedents regarding the commerce clause. While in that case Angel Raich’s pot was for her own use, “marijuana that is grown at home and possessed for personal use is never more than an instant from the interstate market,” and thus subject to federal regulation, Scalia wrote in a concurring opinion.
Solicitor General Donald B. Verrilli Jr. adopts Scalia’s language in his brief to the court defending the individual mandate, and in a nod to how important the government considers the precedent, he mentions the Raich decision 10 times. “Because of human susceptibility to disease and accident, we are all potentially never more than an instant” from requiring health care, Verrilli writes — so the government has an interest in making sure that individuals have a way to pay for it.
This country’s problem is to not see that a Presidential Candidate is just like you and I. However, all this pre-annointing and conditioning of a candidate as a President is throwing all the game off. You cannot criticize them, you cannot do anything.
The minute Zero is stepping off to campaign is the minute he should be brought to local trials for personal harms done.
I do not know what is so hard for people to understand that it is not because they wear a badge of some sort that they are immune from arrest.
When the president of the United States can commit open fraud and forgery to gain and hold his seat in the oval office, and the judicial branch is unwilling to defend this country and it’s constitution against such, Argument over what the Supreme court will or won’t do in other legal matters is virtually MOOT!
If Obama can get SCOTUS to keep it’s mouth shut about his eligibility, and force lower courts to keep the issue subdued, then applying the same political leverage (whatever that may be) to uphold Obamacare should be a very easy task in comparison.
Come on, folks, while we need to pray for our four conservative justices and the quasi-conservative Justice Kennedy, this article is liberal dreaming. Thomas, Alito, Scalia, and Roberts are not going to bend on this issue.
What's this now..?
One can only hope so.