“We do not consider whether the Act embodies sound policies. That judgment is entrusted to the nation’s elected leaders. We ask only whether Congress has the power under the Constitution to enact the challenged provisions.”
In other words, Congress has the legal power to enact stupid and harmful laws.”
Well, then I guess we don’t need a Supreme Court to interpret and/or rule on the constitutionality of stupid and harmful laws passed by Congress. The people have no final protection via the Court. The Supreme Court is thus superfluous; therefore, do away with it.
It is, strictly speaking, which it should be, the duty of the court to rule on whether or not a law or action is in keeping with our Constitution.
A law can be double-dumb and still be Constitutional. The Constitution is our blueprint, but it is no firewall against human stupidity.
We duly elected those lawmakers who passed Obamacare.The court merely said that they COULD lawfully pass a terrible piece of legislation, not whether they SHOULD have.
In other words, it’s not the job of the Court to save us from the wrongheadedness of those whom we elect to Congress.