The Chief justice joined the four liberals...
Posted on 06/28/2012 10:36:52 AM PDT by Hunton Peck
U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Anthony Kennedy, in commenting on the dissent in the Obamacare case said, “In our view, the entire Act before us is invalid in its entirety.” He made his remark inside the Court on Thursday.
In the written dissent, it states, “we would find the Act invalid in its entirety. We respectfully dissent.”
President Barack Obama’s signature legislation – the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act -- including the controversial individual mandate requiring that virtually all Americans buy health insurance or pay a penalty, was ruled constitutional by the U.S Supreme Court (5-4) on Thursday.
Chief Justice John Roberts sided with the four liberals on the court while the three conservatives and swing-vote Kennedy dissented.
Justices John Roberts, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Stephen Breyer agreed that the penalty Americans will face if they do not abide by the mandate is a kind of tax that Congress can impose using its taxing powers. Justices Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, and Anthony Kennedy dissented.
The dissenting opinion reads, “In our view, both these central provisions of the Act -- the Individual Mandate and Medicaid Expansion -- are invalid.”
The dissenting justices further said, “What is absolutely clear, affirmed by the text of the 1789 Constitution, by the Tenth Amendment ratified in 1791, and by innumerable cases of ours in the 220 years since, is that there are structural limits upon federal power – upon what it can prescribe with respect to private conduct, and upon what it can impose upon the sovereign States. Whatever may be the conceptual limits upon the Commerce Clause and upon the power to tax and spend, they cannot be such as will enable the Federal Government to regulate all private conduct and to compel the States to function as administrators of federal programs.”
romney/palin 2012 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Why do they “respectfully” dissent on something like this? I would dissent while pissing on their grandmothers’ graves. Probably why I’m not on the Supreme Court.
Well, we all hoped Kennedy would wake up on the right side of the bed on this.
And he did.
You lousy F^(#!ing S#!theads can Go Directly To Hell.
I refuse SLAVERY!!!
I’m not saying she is a bad choice but, the media has made Sarah poison in this country. This is a clear path to Obama the Sequel.
“He’s probably the closest to a real conservative there. Roberts/Scalia/Alito and even Thomas are police state government worshipers. “
You should join Nancy Pelosi on the planet Stupider. lol
I thought Kennedy “swings both ways.” Apparently, Roberts does too.
LOL I’ll buy the ticket. Kennedy is NOT the most conservative. The other dissenters are more conservative.I’m still puzzled by Roberts...
Chief Justice Roberts is laughing at us all.
I believe Roberts is being Blackmailed. He couldn’t be this stupid.
(I almost typed "wrong side" ... that happens too often.)
Me too. He has really young children-—maybe, there is mafia persuasion in the backdoor. Obama’s Russian mafia is brutal. (Alaskan oil rich island giveaway).
That is the only way that anyone with the understanding of Rule of Law and Justice and Freedom and the Constitution being the Supreme Law of the Land=——could vote in a totally Marxist way.
It is unbelievable but is the last straw for freedom.
Wasn't there a decision earlier this week that said Arizona couldn't function that way?
SCOTUS is just as corrupt as everythng in DC.
Yeah, in a few years it will be, "we respectfully get on the bus to the gulags."
Agreed. He is a ferocious 1st Amendment defender and he’s the reason we won the Citizens United case.
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