Posted on 06/20/2013 1:27:29 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, was disappointed when the U.S. Supreme Court upheld Obamacare. One year later — having thought about the case, gotten some distance from the issue, reviewed the ruling opinion — he’s confident of one thing: Chief Justice John Roberts engaged in “a betrayal of his judicial oath,” one that amounts to “a form of tyranny.”
“In this case, I can’t be sure what exactly motivated Chief Justice John Roberts,” Lee said last night during a Charles Koch Institute event on “Freedom, Laws, and the Commerce Clause” at the Kirby Center for Constitutional Studies. “But what we do know is this: in this case, he appears to have undertaken a ‘split the baby strategy.’ It didn’t work. [It's] not just that it didn’t work, but it amounted, I believe, to a betrayal of his judicial oath. He engaged in law-making and this is wrong.”
Lee acknowledged that it’s a bit uncomfortable to criticize Roberts, due to his respect for the chief justice (a friend of the late Rex Lee, the senator’s father) and for the Supreme Court as an institution.
Here’s how I justify it in my own mind,” he said. “John Roberts did my job. I would not be criticizing him had he not treaded on my grass. He did my job and I’m going to call him out on it.”(continued)
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Is RUBIO BEING BLACKMAILED ALSO??? hmmmmmm
Sen Lee is more than a Senator. He was a law clerk for Alito so worked in the belly of the beast.
Lee KNOWS exactly how these go. The “tax” was presented as a penalty and is a penalty so Obamacare should have been struck doewn.
Lee said Roberts said it is not valid as is, so I will re-write it. Totally illegal for a court to do that.
Robert’s was RIGHT.
Obamacare is basicly a TAX, and it is not a violation of the government’s ability to tax. The Socialists didn’t want it called a “Tax”, but the allies in the media have made sure that the sheeple never hear that word.
He was rushed when he changed his position at the last moment and he may have "overlooked" the opinion accidentally, however since he was being controlled by the dictator, he had no choice.
I doubt if we'll ever get all the facts, but the 0bamacare decision will prove to be one of the darkest, and dirtiest days in American history. I just pray that Roberts has a very long memory and bears a large grudge, so that one day 0bama will get the payback he so richly deserves.
Thank you for posting tcrlaf. And speaking of the Obamacare tax, did you notice the following two excerpts from Gibbons v. Ogden which were posted earlier in this thread?
"State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress (emphases added)." --Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824."Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States." --Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
Since Justice Roberts referenced Gibbons v. Ogden in the Obamacare decision, the question is how did Roberts miss seeing that Justice Marshall had previously officially clarified the following? Not only is healthcare a state power issue, such issues protected by the 10th Amendment, but Congress is prohibited from laying taxes in the name of state power issues.
Note that state power issues are essentially any issue, such as healthcare, which Congress has no authority to address under its constitutional Section 8, Article I-limited powers.
“Lee said Roberts said it is not valid as is, so I will re-write it. Totally illegal for a court to do that.”
You’re absolutely right. I’m gratified that Lee publicly said this. I hope others will start speaking out about legislating from the bench.
You know he’s not going to jail.
Good for Mike Lee. Somebody needed to say it. Its true.
Arkancide in 3....2....
You also had the "silver lining" people saying that thanks to Roberts' ruling, the GOP now has a campaign issue to hang around Obama's neck in November, and it guarantees he will lose re-election.
Yeah, and then we ran Mitt—the one Republican with absolutely NO CREDIBILITY in arguing against Obamacare.
We will be better off with a conservative party—at least the arguments could be made. With the passage of the Amnesty Bill and Obamacare, the GOP will become even more liberal—and still suffer minority status for generations. We now have one party in Washington—the Re-Election Party (or is it an orgy?)
Traitors ought to be hanged, not jailed... and yes, I do believe the USSC has committed Treason (though perhaps not on this matter).
“...What made him do it? That is a real question...”
Could have something to do with all of that data gathering that’s been going on?
Info is a Damoclean sword to a ruthless mind...
He didn't miss it, he merely found what in that case supported his position while discounting all else.
I haven't completely dismissed the possibility that he is simply a big-government statist like so many politicians (and judges today are nothing but politicians) supposedly on the 'right.' Now that he is in power, he can show is true fascist colors. On the court, you have 4 raging, nut-job liberals, two conservatives and three 'moderates.' However, at least 7 of the 9 believe the power of the state is the solution to any problem.
” I do believe the USSC has committed Treason”
Yes, I do too. The problem is that no one is every punished for anything anymore. John Roberts is dirty! He needs to be thoroughly investigated, tried, convicted, removed from office, and sent to jail. but only when we can be assured by a Conservative Senate that the will not allow an Obama appointee to be confirmed as a replacement.
Exactly! Outcome-driven cherry picking.
But, Chief Justice Roberts MAY have been blackmailed about his adopted children by the Obama administration. It seems the kids were adopted OUT of Latin America, but are of IRISH extraction. That is automatically illegal under Irish law.
As I recall Roberts is epileptic. His forehead is a marker for erratic behavior. I’ve never trusted him as reliable just for health issues alone. And who knows what kind of mental cycles he was running when he double X’d us with the obamacare ruling?
Lee’s right.
Welcome to the serfdom.
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