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Chief Justice Roberts’s Folly
National Review Online ^ | June 28, 2012 | The Editors

Posted on 06/28/2012 3:46:37 PM PDT by neverdem

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Chief Justice Roberts’s Folly

We haven't heard the slogan, "IMPEACH THE CHIEF JUDTICE" since Earl Warren's tenure. Guess its time to renew the cry.

21 posted on 06/28/2012 4:08:23 PM PDT by GoldenPup (Comrade "O" has got to GO!!)
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To: formosa
No they can already tax you for doing something. They can now tax you for NOT doing something. You aren't being taxed for buying insurance. You are being taxed for NOT buying insurance. What next a tax for NOT taking the bus. A tax for NOT joining the gym. A tax for NOT having an abortion. After all driving your own car causes carbon dioxide which the Court in all its’ wisdom has decided the EPA can regulate as a pollutant. Not going to the Gym can cause being out of shape, driving up the health care costs for all. and of course having a baby, especially one with genetic disorders or Downs Syndrome could cost society a great deal of money. For NOT exercising your chances to ride the bus, join the gym, or kill your baby should now be taxed.

This is convoluted and insane, but we now live with it. Thank you Roberts you JackA$$!

22 posted on 06/28/2012 4:09:28 PM PDT by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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To: neverdem

More crap in this article.

It’s ‘Robertscare’ now. He bought it. He owns it.


23 posted on 06/28/2012 4:10:27 PM PDT by citizen (Obomo blames:Arab Spring,Banks,Big Oil,Bush,Ceos,Coal,Euro Zone,FNC,Jpn Tsunami,T Party,Wall St,You)
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To: babygene

They don’t have to call it a tax. Call it a penalty and Roberts will pretend it is a tax!


24 posted on 06/28/2012 4:12:38 PM PDT by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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To: PAConservative1
He’s voting the same way GWB would if he was a SCOTUS judge.

Which is why I neither supported, nor voted for Duh-bya.

Like his daddy before him, he never met a big-government snake oil he didn't... LOVE!

25 posted on 06/28/2012 4:13:53 PM PDT by Ol' Dan Tucker (People should not be afraid of the government. Government should be afraid of the people)
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To: neverdem

The constitution has been betrayed. The rule of law has been betrayed. The American people have been lied to and betrayed. The Republic has not been kept. A dangerous world is one step closer to the end of all freedom. Limitless government is forcing its power and reach to control every aspect of our lives. Well everyone one of you in government can just kiss my a$$.


26 posted on 06/28/2012 4:15:21 PM PDT by Mat_Helm
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To: babygene

“Taking away the commence clause crutch is going to make it very difficult for congress to justify the constitutionally of a large portion of the laws and regs that come out of Washington.”

naa Congress will call it under commerce clause and the SC will call it a tax for them and make everything work out.


27 posted on 06/28/2012 4:18:54 PM PDT by ari-freedom
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To: neverdem

What does obama have on roberts?


28 posted on 06/28/2012 4:21:29 PM PDT by aomagrat (Gun owners who vote for democrats are too stupid to own guns.)
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To: Jim from C-Town

“They don’t have to call it a tax. Call it a penalty and Roberts will pretend it is a tax!”

There are tens of thousands of federal laws and regulations on the books today based on the commerce clause. Things that have nothing to do with interstate commerce...


29 posted on 06/28/2012 4:23:08 PM PDT by babygene (Figures don't lie, but liars can figure...)
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To: PAConservative1
You know, I think you hit the nail right on the head.

Conservatives -- and especially Republicans -- have no reason to be disappointed in a ruling that was handed down by a Supreme Court justice who was nominated by a guy who would have been 100% on board with the ruling.

30 posted on 06/28/2012 4:26:05 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("If you touch my junk, I'm gonna have you arrested.")
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To: babygene

“There are tens of thousands of federal laws and regulations on the books today based on the commerce clause. Things that have nothing to do with interstate commerce...”

I’d be happier if those laws were repealed by this ruling but they’re not.


31 posted on 06/28/2012 4:26:24 PM PDT by ari-freedom
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To: neverdem

I can think of a few reasons why Judge Roberts decided as he did.

First, he said that, it’s not the role of the Supreme Court to protect the people from the consequences of the political decisions which the people make. In that sense, he’s punishing the people for voting in the people who created and voted for Obamacare. (Never mind that, the rest of the people who didn’t vote for the commiecrats, are also being punished). In that sense, Roberts might be thinking the way I feel, which is, that the people won’t learn the tough lessons of socialism, until they find themselves in deep depression and desperation, or like a Greece.

Then, Judge Roberts may be forcing Obama and the democrats to have to defend Obamacare and their tax and spend policies, during this coming election, and if the people are smart and notice the dangers the country is headed towards, then Obama will be voted out, and many other democrats will lose their seats.

Also, keeping Obamacare as an election issue, is one way to help replace Obama, and, Roberts might be feeling confident that, with a republican congress and a “republican” president, that Obamacare will be repealed, and therefore, still meeting the death it well deserved.

So, Roberts might have been planning to kill two birds with one stone, Obama and Obamacare, while teaching the people a well-deserved lesson that stupidity deserves.


32 posted on 06/28/2012 4:28:52 PM PDT by adorno
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To: aomagrat
What does obama have on roberts?

I think he frequents the same bathhouse that he and Rahm go to.

33 posted on 06/28/2012 4:29:17 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: adorno

Once again, he voted AGAINST Scalia, and voted WITH Kagan. There is no other spin than that.


34 posted on 06/28/2012 4:30:34 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Sequoyah101
me and my house are with you....John Roberts IMO was going to vote that the bill was unconstitutional, but someone got to him....just like Sandra Day O'Connor who wrote the famous ruling that we needed to discriminate against whites for another 25 yrs or so....

never trust judges...

throw the swine out...

35 posted on 06/28/2012 4:33:28 PM PDT by cherry
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To: Jim from C-Town
its not that I've ever been without health insurance...and never will....but my adult kids had times in their lives when they could not afford health insurance...

I just wish the SC was on the side of the people...but its not...

I want to stay and fight for this country, and frankly don't know of any other place to go except maybe Canada....but geesh...its getting hard to be a patriot...

36 posted on 06/28/2012 4:36:26 PM PDT by cherry
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To: Mat_Helm
I guess our aim generally is to get off the grid...stop earning so much that you pay any taxes...fudge...skim...scam....learn to start taking rather than giving...

I know....its hard to learn to be a bastard but what are ya going to do?

37 posted on 06/28/2012 4:38:37 PM PDT by cherry
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To: Sequoyah101

I agree roberts should rot in hell! It was totally despicable what he did, siding with four morons and being a judicial activist from the bench. He now has cast his lot with the commie side of the court and he deserves to be spat upon. The poor commie roberts was “concerned” about the partisan court in his name so he decides to punish Americans.
Unbelievable!


38 posted on 06/28/2012 4:39:44 PM PDT by biggredd1
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To: dfwgator
nce again, he voted AGAINST Scalia, and voted WITH Kagan. There is no other spin than that.

It's no spin.

Even Scalia may have been in on the "plan" to get rid of Obama and Obamacare via the election in November. Two birds with one stone. With Obamacare still being unpopular with the majority of the American people, and with the economy still in the doldrums, Roberts (and Scalia) may have been scheming to make things worse for Obama. Keep it as an election issue, and Obama and the democrats will have a much tougher time trying to win this November.
39 posted on 06/28/2012 4:49:07 PM PDT by adorno
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To: nicmarlo

Roberts is a worthless liberal that Bush put on the court. This SOB looked for a way to make Commiecare work. When Bush nominated this smirking creep to the US Supreme Court, and as the CHIEF JUSTICE to boot, over more senior people like Alito and Scalia, I started doing some background investigation on this unknown judge. I found out he was a junior judge, having no experience whatsover to qualify him for the highest court in the land. I also found out that when he was a practicing lawyer he represented some sdomites who took their case to the Supreme Court. That’s right, Roberts was a lawyer that took the side of the immoral degenerates. This is the second time this year he has sided with the liberals in a ruling. The other one was on immigration this year. So when the Roberts fans try to explain anyway this betrayal, just remember this creep has always been a liberal and his true colors are coming out now.

Also saying the Stolen Valor Act is unconstitutional overrides Congress who approved it under Bush with an overwhelming majority. So now I think I’ll buy me a cop uniform and pretend to be cop. I’ll stop women and tell them to give it up or they are going to jail. I’ll show the girl my medal of honor I won during the Tet Offensive.
Afterall it’s my free speech and I have a right to lie about anything I want to lie about it.


40 posted on 06/28/2012 4:50:00 PM PDT by NKP_Vet
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