Posted on 04/04/2012 1:06:43 PM PDT by tellw
President Obama's spokesman reiterated that a Supreme Court ruling against Obamacare would be "unprecedented," but even when explaining why that claim should stand, he fumbled Supreme Court history.
"It would be unprecedented in the modern era of the Supreme Court, since the New Deal era, for the Supreme Court to overturn legislation passed by Congress designed to regulate and deal with a matter of national economic importance like our health care system," White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said today. "It has under the Commerce Clause deferred to Congress's authority in matters of national economic importance." Carney also said that Obama does not regret making the comment.
But Carney's history is incorrect. "Jay, that's not true," CBS's Norah O'Donnell countered. "There are two instances in the past 80 years where the president -- where the Supreme Court has overturned [laws passed on the basis of the Commerce Clause]: US vs Lopez and US vs Morrison."
The Lopez case, decided in 1995, involved Congress's authority to regulate schools under the Commerce Clause. The Supreme Court ruled against Congress.
Lopez influenced the even more recent Morrison ruling in 2000, when the Supreme Court overturned sections of the Violence Against Women Act , on the basis that Congress had overstepped its authority under the Commerce Clause.
Carney was not convinced by O'Donnell's history. "What [Obama] made clear yesterday -- and he was a law professor, and he understands constitutional law and constitutional precedent and the role of the Supreme Court -- was a reference to the Supreme Court's history and it's rulings on matters under the Commerce Clause," he said.
As I was driving earlier, I was thinking this very thought and logically, my next thought was, ‘this man is going to become very dangerous as his entire world collapses’. Imagine being so deeply indoctrinated in something that every fiber of your being just knows it’s right. What does one do when it all collapses, and in a very public way, right before your eyes? I’m more convinced than ever he’ll resort to violence if he has to.
I agree 100%. I hope he is publicly humiliated to the maximum.
His arrogance and Marxist.Islamic indoctrination are making him more brazen as he sees he’s being found out. It should get so far out of hand that no one will not see his true colors.
Even the fools who support him will see something is very, very wrong with the evil one called 0bama.
May God watch over America as he melts down.
Somebody needs to have Hussein pee into a cup.
Seriously...the guy needs to be drug tested!
No, he’s under the spell of pure evil. Satan doesn’t show up in pee tests.
How do we know he is actually a professor.
Has anyone seen his college records.
Or do we take this lying scumbuckets word.
A FReeper had a class with a professor who had attended Obama’s Con Law class - he reported on it in a similar thread to this a couple of days ago.
Search is being it’s usual unfriendly self for me, so I can’t find the exact post.
white hut knows health care bill is going down, so they are just stirring up their idiotic base for november. just a question of how low, and stupid, does obamma have to get, to put dims in the voting booth.
Yes, and I'll build on it: I'm willing to wager my next 12 mortgage payments there are legions prepared to do violence on his behalf. We have more to fear from our domestic enemies than our foreign ones.
Yup. We aren't even close to rock bottom yet.
Well, I'm definitely charged up for the election!.............
How about a little capacitive filtering in that power supply?
” I am beginning to suspect that leftists have different standards.... Camille Paglia described how the leftist faculty members all give “excellent” ratings to each other’s “works.”
My dad would not be able to survive in a college today.
That is how bad it has become. He retired in 1980..EARLY...just to get away from the leftist takeover.
See post #108...........8^)
“It would be unprecedented in the modern era of the Supreme Court, since the New Deal era, for the Supreme Court to overturn legislation passed by Congress designed to regulate and deal with a matter of national economic importance like our health care system,”
Question:
Why the HE!! isn’t Romney ripping into Obama on this very issue????
The Lopez case, decided in 1995, involved Congress’s authority to regulate schools under the Commerce Clause. The Supreme Court ruled against Congress.
Lopez influenced the even more recent Morrison ruling in 2000, when the Supreme Court overturned sections of the Violence Against Women Act , on the basis that Congress had overstepped its authority under the Commerce Clause.
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