Speaking of which:
“It’s Official: January 5, 2013 is SUPPORT HOBBY LOBBY DAY (Breitbart, Others Spreading the Word)”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2973541/posts
GD arbitrary and capricious Justice Sotomayer.
It's a crying shame Mr. Green suit fell into her jurisdiction.
I always support Hobby Lobby. Next to Cabela’s, it’s my favorite store.
How about the blanket waiver Obamacare bill gave to Muslims? the Amish? etc.
Seems to deny Equal Protection
In fact, regardless that Justice Roberts referenced Gibbons v. Ogden in the Obamacare opinion, Justice Roberts seemingly ignored that Justice John Marshall had written the following in Gibbons. Justice Marshall had clarified, in a single sentence, the limits of Congress's Commerce Clause powers using health laws as an example; FDR's activist justices got the Commerce Clause wrong in Wickard v. Filburn.
"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.The next excerpt from Gibbons clarifies in general that Congress is prohibited from laying taxes in the name of state power issues, the previous excerpt having clarified that healthcare is a state power issue.
"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.Justice Barbour later expanded Justice Marshall's "health laws" term.
"Inspection laws, quarantine laws, health laws of every description (emphasis added), as well as laws for regulating the internal commerce of a state and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c., are component parts of this mass." --Justice Barbour, New York v. Miln, 1837.And ten years before Constitution-ignoring socialist FDR was first elected president, FDR eventually succeeding in nominating a majority of activist justices who would ultimately pervert the Commerce Clause in Congress's favor, Constitution-respecting justices had once again clarified that the states have never delegated to Congress, via the Constitution, the specific power to regulate healthcare.
“Direct control of medical practice in the states is obviously (emphasis added) beyond the power of Congress.” –Linder v. United States, 1925.Sadly, here is a smoking gun that corrupt Congress is deliberately ignoring its Article V requirement to petition the states for constitutional amendments that would grant Congress new specific powers, such as the power to regulate, tax and spend for healthcare purposes. Noting that the language below has since been removed, the govtrack.us web site had indicated that Congress wrongly ignored a resolution, initiated by former Congressman Jessie Jackson Jr., to propose to the states for ratification a healthcare amendment to the Constitution.
"The resolution's title starts with "Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United." (-10%)" --H.J.Res. 30: Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States regarding the right …" --H.J. Res. 30.Note that basically the only Section 8 power that Congress has for regulating anything in the states is for regulating postal services (Article I, Section 8, Clause 7). Most other federal programs, especially those established from the time of FDR, are based on wrongly usurped state powers.