Mandate survives under the taxing power of the Federal governemnt—Roberts has joined with the four lefties to give them a 5-4 decision.
Roberts says the mandate is not a proper under the “Commerce Clause” or the “Necessary and Proper” clause,but OK under the taxing power—has nothing to do with fairness of what Congress enacts.
The Dred Scott decison of 2012.
Thus, the entire act is upheld as Constitutional.
Would you not agree this is a strictly constitutional decision? In other words, Justice Roberts agreed that it’s outside the reach of the Commerce Clause but not outside Congress’s constitutionally-granted power to tax?
You gotta be $hitting me!
Kennedy got it right but Roberts got it wrong - even after his extremely skepical questioning during the hearings.
Does anybody now doubt what I’ve been saying for a long time now - that John Roberts has been threatened? The measure of the value of a hypothesis is if it accurately predicts future events. I had this one pegged - against the collective wisdom of Intrade. And even against folks with insider knowledge, like Jake Tapper who claimed that Roberts was going to support Obamacare in order to hold Kennedy’s hand. In the end, the whole thing stood or fell with Roberts, and he did exactly what Soros told him to do. Just as I feared and stated publicly based on my belief that Roberts has exhibited signs of being compromised all along, ever since the day of the Donofrio conference when Roberts made an unprecedented and unethical ex parte invitation to Obama to visit SCOTUS.
His vote on Arizona was not to buy Kennedy’s cooperation on Obamacare. His stances on both decisions are unconstitutional.
He’s the mouthpiece of George Soros - after Soros told Roberts he and his communist-Islamist alliance would make another run on the bank if Roberts didn’t do as he was told.
This country has literally been taken hostage. This is exactly why Obama’s ineligibility is so critical. Once the camel’s nose is under the tent, it’s just a matter of time before the whole thing comes down. They got Roberts to swear in Obama and ignore all the eligibility cases by threatening another run on the bank, and now they can use the same threat to do whatever they darn well please. At this point they don’t even care that people are figuring it out.
2008 was a communist-Islamist coup. Simple statement of fact.
That’s pretty much it. We finally put some boundaries on the Commerce clause, but we’re still stuck with the damn law.