Posted on 03/28/2012 9:44:18 AM PDT by Bill Buckner
The court’s conservatives sounded as though they had determined for themselves that the 2,700-page measure must be declared unconstitutional.
"One way or another, Congress will have to revisit it in toto," said Justice Antonin Scalia.
Agreeing, Justice Anthony Kennedy said it would be an "extreme proposition" to allow the various insurance regulations to stand after the mandate was struck down.
Meanwhile, the court's liberal justices argued for restraint. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said the court should do a "salvage job," not undertake a “wrecking operation." But she looked to be out-voted.
Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. said they shared the view of Scalia and Kennedy that the law should stand or fall in total. Along with Justice Clarence Thomas, they would have a majority to strike down the entire statute as unconstitutional.
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I wish we could impeach them!
I'd fully expect to see riots in major urban areas.
My asthmatic/allergic 24 yo daughter is on our plan, and it costs us about $100 more in premiums a month. It’s still cheaper for her to be on our plan because she’s always been a sickly kid, so the list of preexisting conditions would exclude her from decent or inexpensive coverage. Congress should find an affordable way to deal with issues of portability and preexisting conditions, etc., because there are some health insurance issues that definitely need tweaking, IMO.
Mrs. Prince of Space
Humiliation? That’s the least this traitor has to fear. This country had better deal with this traitor when the time comes.
This assumes that Kennedy will vote to strike the mandate. The SCOTUS has disappointed me before.
They will toss out the entire vile 2700 page bill.
Nobody could even defend it .....pathetic : )
I may be wrong, but I remember they put the insurance mandate as the lynchpin of the leglislation to get the treasonous Dems to vote for it.
It would be so merciful if it was all struck down. The Marxists have so much poison, control and oppression built into that leglislation.
It was great that Obama went after the Christians in the way he did. It was just a small shout out from hell as to what’s to come. He woke the “social justice” Catholics up.
I hope so, and hope it doesn't rise from the grave (e, g. expansions of medicare/medicaid). Things are bad enough even if obamacare disappears.
"I would respectfully suggest that it’s a very funny conception of liberty that forces somebody to purchase an insurance policy whether they want it or not.
And it’s a very strange conception of federalism that says that we can simply give the States an offer that they can’t refuse, and through the spending power which is premised on the notion that Congress can do more because it’s voluntary, we can force the States to do whatever we tell them to. That is a direct threat to our federalism."
LOL, Bill, it will certainly be a laugher.
If the SCOTUS overturns the mandate and sends the core Act back to Congress, WILL THE HOUSE PARTICIPATE OR JUST THE SENATE?
IMO, it’s because Social Security is going belly up in a few years. They have to kill off millions of seniors before that happens, and they found an easy way to do it: A universal health care system with death panels that will rule that seniors get a lot less care than others because they’re too old.
Wait and see....(SUE) : )
And, what happens to RomneyCare, if any to all of ObamaCare is struck down?
Is there a site to read this??
It’s not over until it’s over. If you are of faith, please keep praying.
Please, Lord, help them to throw the whole thing out.
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