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Justice Scalia to Obama’s Solicitor General: ‘We’re not stupid’ [AUDIO]
The Daily Caller ^

Posted on 03/27/2012 1:56:30 PM PDT by Sub-Driver

Justice Scalia to Obama’s Solicitor General: ‘We’re not stupid’ [AUDIO] By Nicholas Ballasy - The Daily Caller 3:39 PM 03/27/2012 ADVERTISEMENT

While Solicitor General Donald Verrilli, Jr. made the Obama administration’s case for the constitutionality of the individual mandate in the health-care law Tuesday, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia interrupted, telling Verrilli, “we’re not stupid.”

Justice Elena Kagan, a former solicitor general appointed by President Obama to the high court, sided with Verilli in arguing that young people should be required by the federal government to purchase health insurance because eventually, others will subsidize their health care in the future.

Scalia shot back, arguing that young people will make the decision to buy health insurance eventually and do not need to be forced by the federal government to engage in commerce.

The transcript of the exchange is below:

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 3branches; constitution; constitutionality; court; healthcare; impeach; justice; justicescalia; kagan; obamacare; scotus; scotusobamacare; scotusocareday2; supremecourt
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To: jtal

What was Kagan allowed on the court? What a joke.


21 posted on 03/27/2012 2:08:54 PM PDT by FreeAtlanta (Liberty and Justice for ALL)
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To: Sub-Driver

Depends on whom Justice Scalia meant by “we”; Justice Kagan is absolutely stupid-in-the-bag for the Obamanation.


22 posted on 03/27/2012 2:08:59 PM PDT by newgeezer (It is [the people's] right and duty to be at all times armed. --Thomas Jefferson)
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To: max americana

” “Justice Elena Kagan, a former solicitor general appointed by President Obama to the high court, sided with Verilli in arguing that young people should be required by the federal government to purchase health insurance because eventually, others will subsidize their health care in the future.... “”

Communist Healthcare, explained by the least qualified justice in American history.


23 posted on 03/27/2012 2:08:59 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (God, family, country, mom, apple pie, the girl next door and a Ford F250 to pull my boat.)
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To: jtal

Why is Kagan even allowed to hear this case? How preposterous. We might as well allow 0 himself to make a ruling.
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I see it as a test for Boehner ,, if he doesn’t impeach her then he should be.


24 posted on 03/27/2012 2:08:59 PM PDT by Neidermeyer
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To: Neidermeyer

Won’t happen.....Boehner is the worst coward we ever had as GOP Speaker.....bar none!


25 posted on 03/27/2012 2:10:28 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (God, family, country, mom, apple pie, the girl next door and a Ford F250 to pull my boat.)
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To: gov_bean_ counter; jtal

Guess who had dinner with Sebellius last night??

No conflict of interest there.


26 posted on 03/27/2012 2:10:47 PM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
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To: Sub-Driver

God Bless you Justice Scalia!!


27 posted on 03/27/2012 2:14:57 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: stephenjohnbanker; Neidermeyer

Man oh man, wouldn’t that be a great way to get the courts back in line and back into their “equal” third they are supposed to be?

Let Kagan sit through this case then impeach her sorry unqualified rear out of there. Wait until after the election. Hopefully, we have enough Senators and a Republican president and we can get a qualified conservative Justice.

The left will scream bloody murder, but it is time they are ignored.


28 posted on 03/27/2012 2:17:26 PM PDT by FreeAtlanta (Liberty and Justice for ALL)
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To: Sub-Driver

Kagan is proving herself to be Obama’s stooge.


29 posted on 03/27/2012 2:19:33 PM PDT by tumblindice (our new, happy lives, thanks to Big Bro')
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To: FreeAtlanta

” The left will scream bloody murder, but it is time they are ignored.”

When the left screams bloody murder, we know the Constitution is a bit safer.


30 posted on 03/27/2012 2:20:31 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (God, family, country, mom, apple pie, the girl next door and a Ford F250 to pull my boat.)
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To: Sub-Driver
Jerry's Girlfriend (Played by Courtney Cox): "Did you look in the drawer?"

Jerry: "It's not there. I'm not stupid."

J's G: "I didn't say you were stupid."

Jerry: "Well, wouldn't I have to be!"

31 posted on 03/27/2012 2:22:26 PM PDT by Defiant (If there are infinite parallel universes, why Lord, am I living in the one with Obama as President?)
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To: Sub-Driver

And then Kagan has to dive in and say “hey, wait a minute, I’m stupid too!”

They just don’t write comedy like this anymore.


32 posted on 03/27/2012 2:23:39 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: tumblindice
Then there is this one...


33 posted on 03/27/2012 2:24:10 PM PDT by FreeAtlanta (Liberty and Justice for ALL)
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To: Sub-Driver

“young people should be required by the federal government to purchase health insurance because eventually, others will subsidize their health care in the future.”

This is where socialism completes its circle, to control.

Using the same logic, the government could ban cigars, high calorie drinks, high fat meals, you name it. Nothing is off limits.


34 posted on 03/27/2012 2:24:34 PM PDT by lacrew (Mr. Soetoro, we regret to inform you that your race card is over the credit limit.)
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To: GeronL

Mark Levin’s show is going to be interesting tonight. (Well, even more so.)


35 posted on 03/27/2012 2:25:18 PM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Romney - Santorum: Twin Sons of Different Mothers...)
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To: tumblindice

Did you expect Kagan to be anything other than a stooge for Obama?

She doesn’t give one crap what the Constitution says or means, and she isn’t even pretending in that comment.


36 posted on 03/27/2012 2:27:12 PM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
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To: lacrew

That is the whole idea....total control over the population.....we are almost there, anyway. If SCOTUS upholds Obamacare, we ARE there!


37 posted on 03/27/2012 2:27:42 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (God, family, country, mom, apple pie, the girl next door and a Ford F250 to pull my boat.)
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To: Sub-Driver

I highly doubt Kagan even believes in the Constitution. She has an anthropologist’s view of it - she studies it as a window how a former society organized itself, but leftists like her feel they are well beyond it.

She is Obama’s land-mine to America which will keep spreading her error for decades to come.


38 posted on 03/27/2012 2:27:50 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: Sub-Driver

This one was juicy.

Why has Kagen not recused herself, btw?


39 posted on 03/27/2012 2:28:32 PM PDT by cuban leaf (Were doomed! Details at eleven.)
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To: GeronL
Trivia question...

What do Tom Coburn (Okla.), Susan Collins (Maine), Judd Gregg (N.H.), Orrin Hatch (Utah), Jon Kyl (Ariz.), Richard Lugar (Ind.) and Olympia Snowe (Maine) have in common?

40 posted on 03/27/2012 2:31:08 PM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Romney - Santorum: Twin Sons of Different Mothers...)
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