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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And if the administration is not prepared to accept the ruling of SCOTUS?
I will be dropping to my knees thanking God that this abomination has ended.
ObamaCare destroys the entire current system, that takes care of 90% of America, so he can cover the 10% who don't have health care.
What kind of moron tears down their entire house to build a small addition? That's what ObamaCare does.
All members of Congress who voted for this unconstitutional law who are up for reelection should be held to task as to why they voted for a bill and especially if they even read the bill before voting.
Good riddance to bad rubbish!
Iknow many freepers hate Bush and Repubiicans but they did put 2 good justices on the Supreme court Alito and Roberts.
we can’t let Obama win and put 3 more Marxists on the Supreme court. Yeah Janice Rogers Brown would have been better but we got 2 good ones from Bush.
That’s quite the defeatist attitude you’ve got going there.
Wow!
Iknow many freepers hate Bush and Repubiicans but they did put 2 good justices on the Supreme court Alito and Roberts.
we can’t let Obama win and put 3 more Marxists on the Supreme court. Yeah Janice Rogers Brown would have been better but we got 2 good ones from Bush.
Nation wide parties will be thrown. They won't be in celebration though, and I don't want to be anywhere near them.
I don’t know if I would go that far in saying how the Justices would rule based on questioning. I’ve seen these dudes look like they were going to go one direction and the ruling go the other way. I’ll pop the champagne cork when the actual ruling comes down.
Iknow many freepers hate Bush and Repubiicans but they did put 2 good justices on the Supreme court Alito and Roberts.
we can’t let Obama win and put 3 more Marxists on the Supreme court. Yeah Janice Rogers Brown would have been better but we got 2 good ones from Bush.
Iknow many freepers hate Bush and Repubiicans but they did put 2 good justices on the Supreme court Alito and Roberts.
we can’t let Obama win and put 3 more Marxists on the Supreme court. Yeah Janice Rogers Brown would have been better but we got 2 good ones from Bush.
It was his golden opportunity and Pelosi handed him a shiny 2300 page turd that nobody read.
It's hard to believe that we have to depend on the Nine Black Robed Justices to flush the turd since we know four of them like to watch it float in the bowl.
Oddly, there is more legal precedent for a single-payer system under the (incorrect reading of the) general welfare clause than there is for the individual mandate under interstate commerce.
I’m not sure why they just don’t give a tax credit for insurance payments. That way we buy our own insurance but the government pays for it. (I don’t support that, but it’s more reasonable than single payer or individual mandate.) Oh wait, it’s because the government wants control over the whole health care system.
I’ll wait till we get a decision, remember how the GA judge wanted to see obama’s B/C and then shut up.
The feds will do anything and right now the left is trying to get as much dirt as possible to shut these judges up.
Also did anyone hear Kagen? Something along the lines saying we need this health care because people do not have it, or words tot hat affect.
Er Kagan you were not a judge but you are supposed to look at the constitution and then think before you make a decision and you are not supposed to repeat the lefts talking points as that is what she was doing.
Imagine if Newt or Sarah and Allen West got in the white house?
They would have looked into obama’s connections with the MSM, how did they work with each other, did they meet or sending talking points to his two judges , look into the racist DOJ maybe even why did obama cover his records up and then unseal them?
Now even if RINO Romney gets this then who thinks the establishment would ever look into this corruption?
Remember liberals never give up. If SCOTUS strikes it down it is certainly a huge election year set back and embarassment for Obama, but they will never give this up.
is that the same speaker which said do not denounce obama when he is out of the country?
Yea thought so.
The same establishment which backstabbed Sarah and reached across the aisle the same ones who put up Romney the north east socialised state MA and was Gov.
“If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you could possibly imagine.”
Clinton keeps destroying the U.S.A with that Marxist Ginsburg it put on the supreme Court.And how many other marxist judges did it put on the supreme court and federal courts? Clinton also let illegals reach critical mass and did the China free trade deal that sent all our factorie and jobs to china, NAFTA etc.
Ditto for Obama and the 2 Marxists it put on the Supreme Court
Thanks, Jules.
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