Posted on 11/26/2013 9:07:36 AM PST by John W
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday accepted an Obamacare law appeal over contraception coverage.
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Where’s the Barf Alert!!!
Roberts will rule again with the fascists and take away more of our liberty.
thx for posting a picture of the fascist homo....Roberts
My question as well. Since the "individual TAX (mandate)" was an integral, explicit part of the law, striking that down should have invalidated the entire law. The contraception mandate, however, seems more like an implementation decision not explicitly mentioned in the law, and can probably be struck down without invalidating the entire law (damn it!!!)
Just my take.
And then, "It would be ashamed if something were to 'happen' to them."
He’ll find it unconstitutional only if he’s signing onto a minority opinion. If there’s five votes to uphold without him, you can bet he will safely dissent. He’s a weasel.
Why would any conservative want anything to go to the US Communist supreme court in this day and age. It has been almost fully infiltrated by Godless forces of evil that are hostile to the USA. And Roberts is the Two Horned leader carrying the pitch fork of doom.
Cleaning out the court is far more important that cleaning out congress. The court has far more power. And that is why it was infiltrated.
I think you are misreading him on this, and the rest of the court too.
We have a good judge with Alito. Myers could have been brought up again.
A man with cute kids running around in their Buster Brown's doesn't make a good judge.
Yeahbut...UNLIKE us, "it didn't cost [him] a dime." ;-)
Entirely possible that I am. His previous opinion makes him unpredictable. He seemed to go to great lengths to find Obamacare constitutional, quite possibly changing his mind late in the game. I base my read on him wanting to salvage some credibility, while still wanting to keep Obamacare intact. He could do that by signing on to a minority opinion.
It’s also possible that he could find this particular part of Obamacare offensive to the Constitution, and perhaps even take the lead in requiring that it be altered. That’s a far different thing from killing the law altogether. This route could allow him to remain consistent with his original opinion, while attempting to help his reputation.
I’m glad I don’t have to put money on what John Roberts will do.
If Roberts remains NSA’ed, this is for naught.
This seems like a tough case to win. Is there legal precedent for a business getting to opt out of government regulations because the regulations are against the owners’ religion?
The courts might be afraid to open the door to anyone making up a new religion as a means to escape any government regulation they want.
We already saw adoption centers shut down because they couldn’t escape the mandate to let homosexual couples adopt.
Nothing specifically gives the Supreme Court the right to strike down a law as unconstitutional. Really all that can happen is that the Supreme Court strikes down a particular prosecution and effectively say that it will do likewise with any other prosecutions under the statute. Nothing would particularly prevent prosecutors from ignoring the Supreme Court, or saying that for whatever reason the particular cases they're bringing are in some way different from the prosecutions the Court invalidated.
You are assuming he feels the way today he did back in June of 2012. I am assuming he is 180 degrees the other way. He clearly stretched to keep the law in tact in 12 - I think now he’s so horrified at that outcome, that he’ll stretch the other way now. He naively thought the law was a good thing in 12. I think he’s embarrassed as hell about that now.
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I wondered how far in I’d have to go before someone nailed it.
Roberts will NEVER live that down. After he’s long gone some folks will still be laughing, groaning, and seething.
They have a chance, I think, to eliminate the abomination now. COMPLETELY.
Do it, John.
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