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Obama: Court Striking Down Obamacare Would Be Judicial Activism
Real Clear Politics ^
| April 2, 2012
Posted on 04/02/2012 6:41:51 PM PDT by Still Thinking
President Obama preemptively slammed the Supreme Court as a bunch of "unelected group of people" who will have turned to "judicial activism or a lack of judicial restraint" if they decide to strike down his signature legislative achievement, the healthcare reform act.
Obama was speaking at a trilateral event with the Prime Minister of Canada and President of Mexico.
Obama touted the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, as "a law that was passed by a strong majority of a democratically-elected Congress."
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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: obamacare
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To: bray
What the heck! Justice Clarence Thomas is the mountain and Obumble is the molehill.
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posted on
04/02/2012 9:49:39 PM PDT
by
ArmyTeach
(Our liberties we prize and our rights we will maintain ... USS Iowa BB 61)
To: Still Thinking
Obama condemning judicial activism?
It’s official, folks, I’ve somehow stepped into the Twilight Zone/Bizzaro World.
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posted on
04/02/2012 10:42:06 PM PDT
by
DemforBush
(A Repo man is *always* intense!)
To: KTM rider
a balance of powers is kryptonite to the leftist Not so sure Mombo would agree....seems he's going it however he chooses...solo power is his game.
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posted on
04/02/2012 11:11:23 PM PDT
by
caww
To: Still Thinking
No dummy, if the USSC creates law, then it is engaging in judicial activism. Simply striking down laws is not judicial activism.
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posted on
04/03/2012 1:09:14 AM PDT
by
Crucial
To: Still Thinking
It would be defending the Constitution.
Activism is expanding the Constitution to make it mean anything.
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posted on
04/03/2012 4:20:23 AM PDT
by
fortheDeclaration
(How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!-Sam Adams)
To: Still Thinking
his whole life is being held up by activist judges and those that support them.
And he didn’t have much to say about it, when he nominated to total and complete incompetents to it....just sayin’
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posted on
04/03/2012 4:27:21 AM PDT
by
qaz123
To: Steely Tom
IF there is rioting this summer, using it as an excuse to reapply Obamacare as an executive order would be WAY down on his list, since there is a high probability that he would be more concerned about fighting off a Final Solution to the Socialist Problem.
Recall that no one expected, when the Yugoslav government collapsed, that Serbs would be feeding Croat bodies into a lead smelting plant to dispose of them.
Anything can happen in a race/civil war, and The Fraud seems to want one. He's stupid enough to think he'll win
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posted on
04/03/2012 5:11:45 AM PDT
by
jonascord
(Ask any Democrat. He's firmly convinced that he's brighter than you.)
To: Tzimisce
THIS MAN IS RUINING YOUR COUNTRY Have a nice day. :) There, fixed it for you. :-)
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posted on
04/03/2012 5:21:10 AM PDT
by
commish
(Freedom tastes sweetest to those who have fought to preserve it.)
To: Still Thinking
Ground work for the next play. If it gets stuck down, Obambi will just say “So what?”
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posted on
04/03/2012 5:23:01 AM PDT
by
redgolum
("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
To: Still Thinking
Obama: "How many divisions does the Supreme Court have?"
Cheers!
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posted on
04/03/2012 5:31:14 AM PDT
by
grey_whiskers
(The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
To: grey_whiskers
Obama: Court Striking Down Obamacare Would Be Judicial Activism
In exactly the same way that voting his ass out of office would be racism.
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posted on
04/03/2012 5:34:00 AM PDT
by
aruanan
To: dandiegirl
Congress doesn’t have the stones to impeach, no matter what.
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posted on
04/03/2012 6:33:47 AM PDT
by
redgolum
("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
To: Still Thinking
This is coming from someone who taught Constitutional Law. He must have forgot that the reason that these justices are not elected is for checks and balances just such as this case. You heard it straight from him that it was a strong democratic vote. Which is why the SCOTUS is looking this over very carefully. They are right to do so. Obama already left a bad taste in their mouths in the state of the union speech. Why would they want to help someone that is against them anyway and support a bill that is wildly unpopular with the public?
You can tell when Obama is in a hard place he starts attacking anyone and everyone that is against him and his takeover agenda. Also, the fact that he said this with two foreign leaders beside him further divides the country which may be what he wants to do anyway.
To: 3rdcoastislander
He has conveniently forgotten that it took 5 votes from un-elected Senators to help push o-care over the top. I believe Bennett, Kaufman, Burris, Kirk, Gillibrand were appointees?
To: Still Thinking
The most important issue of this case is whether the Commerce Clause can be stretched far enough to allow Congress to force individuals to purchase certain products from private parties or face a tax or penalty.
I went to law school and did practice for a number of years, but the reach of the Commerce Clause is taught in the first year Constitutional Law class. I find it unbelievable that Obama could not see that a radical extension of the clause as a possible hole in the legal argument (not the policy argument) underlying this enormous program.
To: oceanagirl
Stretch it, hell! I’d like to stop it where it is and start pruning it back to a manageable size (read very very small).
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posted on
04/03/2012 8:45:52 PM PDT
by
Still Thinking
(Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
To: Still Thinking
F-— ‘em all, we’ll make it work, even if we have to drag them kicking and screaming into it. That’s the American way.
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posted on
04/03/2012 8:50:16 PM PDT
by
factoryrat
(We are the producers, the creators. Grow it, mine it, build it.)
To: AzSteven
[quote][i]I am glad to hear him saying this - it reinforces my guess that the straw vote yesterday was pretty bad for Obamacare, and the Wise Latina has already leaked the results to him. I think he is going to be very disappointed with the results of running against the Supreme Court.[/quote][/i]
[p]I thought the same thing when I heard him make those idiotic comments. I just hope that our gut is correct. SInce it appears that we’re stuck with Mittens, I would feel a whole lot better about him if the Supremes dispense with this damn Bill. Because I know Mittens will NOT repeal it!
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posted on
04/03/2012 10:08:39 PM PDT
by
RocketMan1
(I am an eternal optimist, but for the first time in my adult life, I am ashamed of my Country!)
To: RocketMan1
Sorry for my crap formatting. I set it up like all of the other boards I frequent. Why is this board so different from every other board on the internets?!
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posted on
04/03/2012 10:11:13 PM PDT
by
RocketMan1
(I am an eternal optimist, but for the first time in my adult life, I am ashamed of my Country!)
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