Posted on 07/02/2012 5:06:03 PM PDT by lyby
Chief Justice John Roberts has handed a remarkable victory to American conservatives by threading the judicial needle with perfect precision. The initial disappointment collectively felt by Americans who had hoped for a Supreme Court ruling that would overturn Obamacare soon will be replaced, upon further reflection, by the excitement that will come with a fuller appreciation of what the Chief Justice has wrought.
Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/06/the_chief_justice_done_good.html#ixzz1zVtA34HQ
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Most Americans think more in terms of benefits: what does the law give me and mine. It will be years before they have to pay for them.
Truth spoken here.
For non-lawyers let me explain:
Dicta is an expression in a court's opinion that goes beyond the facts before the court and therefore are individual views of the author of the opinion and not binding in subsequent cases as legal precedent.
Anyone who claims that Roberts will restrain the use of the commerce clause is unaware of the legal meaning of dicta or they are flat out lying.
Even if the law is overturned the ruling still stands. The ruling opens the taxation floodgates.
If Roberts really has hamstrung the governments power under the Commerce Clause, why did he have to uphold Obamacare under taxation?
Why could he not have sided with the Kennedy and the conservatives, struck down Obamacare, and STILL issued his opinion on the Commerce Clause?
I suppose we must be speaking of different segments of the population. My responses are based on the people I see and speak with daily. Sometimes that leaves me out of touch with those who make demands on my pocketbook.
I hear you and totally agree.
Here's the thread with many comments if you're interested.
My Grandma had a saying that fits too....wish in one hand and _hit in the other and see which one fills up first.
-PJ
I did scan it and it is more of the same crap.
I’ve spent enough years in the pasture to know what Bull Spit is without reading some highbrow bowl of verbal diarrhea from some spinmaster looking for ways to put a happy face on a dire situation. Crap.
Is the Rabbi Dov Fischer? He has a lot of time to write doesn’t he? What else does he do?
I think we have enough sense to sort Spit from Shinola.
Roberts screwed us all. No ifs, ands or buts.
Just white citizens with a job.
Roberts is pissing on us, and a Loyola professor is trying to tell us its raining and its really benefical because its watering the plants.
Too bad for your theory that Roberts did nothing to limit the commerce clause.
Thank you for holding on to you humility.
The arrogance of this Dov Fischer guy makes me retch.
We got boned and it was not necessary.
Robert’s did the equivalent of leaving us adrift in a lifeboat to teach us a lesson if he had some grand scheme. More likely, I think he was bought, bribed or threatened.
“If you really want to understand this matter dial into Mark (Levin)or hit his web.”
Thanks, Breto! That’s the whole point of my reading commentaries and the posts on FR: “to understand”. I will check out Mark Levin.
I read it all.
Some Conservatives are making grasping at straws an art form.
I AM very interested in people’s response to this brilliant assessment. Thank you for the link.
While I don't always agree with Charles Krauthammer, I thoroughly enjoyed him DESTROYING and B-Slapping, he who "looks out for us," EXCEPT when it comes to bending over defending Dear Leader, his Administration or ANYTHING Demo-Rat...all in the name of "Fair and Balanced,"...the Bloviator in Chief, O'Reilly, tonight.
O'Reilly, as usual, made an effort to suggest that Roberts did the right thing by throwing this back to the people.
Charles (RIGHTLY) replied that if that was the case, Roberts should resign and there would be no more need for a Supreme Court.
o·bi·ter dictum (b-tr)
n. pl. obiter dicta
1. Law An opinion voiced by a judge that has only incidental bearing on the case in question and is therefore not binding. Also called dictum.
2. An incidental remark or observation; a passing comment.
In a few years—when half or more of our income is going to the federal government—he can say that he was misunderstood about his observations on the commerce clause. And then they take what’s left.
“Don’t you have a clue why this ruling is so dangerous?”
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