Posted on 03/02/2015 7:53:40 PM PST by PROCON
Obama says there's no 'legal basis' for the Supreme Court to dismantle Obamacare subsidies and defends the lack of a Plan B if he's wrong
Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on Wednesday in a case that could gut the Affordable Care Act
Planitiffs say the law itself forbids the federal government from offering insurance subsidies in states that didn't set up their own exchanges
Dozens of states opted to let Healthcare.gov sell policies to their citizens, and those people could be left twisting if the court rules against Obama
Republicans say Congress has a 'Plan B' but it's likely the White House would resist it
They would offer consumers temporary financial assistance and give states new permissions to fashion their insurance markets differently
President Barack Obama said on Monday that he thinks there is no 'plausible legal basis' for the U.S. Supreme Court to strike down a key plank of Obamacare, and also defended his administration's lack of a contingency plan if he's wrong.
He also promised to make a final determination on the Keystone XL pipeline before he leaves office, although he would not say whether it will take him 'weeks or months' to determine whether the project is in the national interest.
Obama touched on both policy issues during an interview with Reuters.
On the Affordable Care Act, his signature policy achievement commonly referred to as Obamacare, the Supreme Court is set to hear oral arguments on Wednesday in the case known as King v. Burwell.
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The Emperor has spoken, there will be no debate and SCOTUS better do the "right" thing.
Well he is a “Constitutional Scholar” after all.
He has no biases
Yes, the emperor has spoken and he is a legal scholar. Just like Kim dunking a basketball from half court and having multiple holes in one during a round of golf.
Except that the law in question says the subsidies can't exist. Other than that, ther's no legal basis.
The Supreme Court doesn’t have to dismantle anything. All it has to do is uphold the law as written. And THAT infuriates Obama.
There’s no “legal basis” because under Obama there is no law.
Obama rules by decree.
Exactly what the founding fathers were trying to free themselves of.
The Tyrant knows there was a quid pro quo.
SCOTUS is EXEMPT. And that was the cost
for slavery and destruction of the American people
and what was once “Equal Justice under Law”.
> Republicans say Congress has a ‘Plan B’
Dumb dumbs. Stay out of it. It’s the Democrats’ problem.
The legal basis is all constitutional..
Since the US Constitution is toilet paper now..
He could be correct..
When in your face TREASON becomes legal...
any bitching then is just conversation..
I’d bet there’s a lot of arrogant, smug Chicago types running around the halls of government whispering “remember JFK?” into the ears of those NOT so aligned with their program.
Something, because our reps aren’t repping.
Having destroyed the Congress, the executive branch and President Puppet now metastasises into the judicial branch.
The SCOTUS will rule in his favor, 5-4 or even 6-3. No question about it.
Odumbo thought of that all by himself using that huge brain of his.
Yeah. The fix is in or Obama would never allow it to go to the SC.
There’s no apparent or known legal basis for O, either. So he’s yacking about something near and dear to him — hisself
Obama will ignore adverse court rulings and do what he wants. Republicans will do nothing.
There’s the plain language of the law.
Or maybe the Court will find a “penumbra” of some kind.
More coded messages to the Arm Breakers at SEIU.
Legal = “We have a serious problem to fix”
Supreme Court = “The Target”
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