Posted on 11/20/2013 7:27:15 AM PST by don-o
On November 8, Representative Trent Franks (R-AZ) and thirty-nine other Republican members of the House of Representatives filed a "friend of the court" brief in support of a legal challenge to the Affordable Care Act ("Obamacare") based on the Origination Clause that will be heard by the District of Columbia Federal Court of Appeals in early 2014.
The case, Sissel v United States Department of Health and Human Services, was filed in the Washington, D.C. District Federal Court by the Pacific Legal Foundation on behalf of Matt Sissel, an Iraq war veteran who lives in Iowa, where he owns a small business, on July 26, 2010.
The Origination Clause of the Constitution, Article 1, Section 7, Clause 1 states "All Bills for raising Revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives; but the Senate may propose or concur with Amendments as on other Bills." Not a word of the Affordable Care Act originated in the House of Representatives. Instead, using a legislative trick, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) took an innocuous bill that had passed the House unanimously on October 8, 2009 by a 416-0 vote, the Service Members Home Ownership Tax Act of 2009, removed every word of its text following the first sentence, and replaced it with the Affordable Care Act language.
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SCOTUS will refuse to hear...
Unfortunately, the left’s threat against Roberts is still working. And, besides, obama gave him a special exemption from obamacare. He would need to recuse himself, along with elena kagan.
Roberts is tied up by blackmail. Thats what happens when you illegally adopt two kids from Ireland and try to keep it secret.
Yes, you heard right. Part of the last guvmint shutdown was a game of chicken between the house republicans and the senate over this issue. House republicans went wobbly, as usual.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3074653/replies?c=6
The chief injustice of the Federal employees in black robes will just rewrite the law from the bench this time like he did last time.
It wasn’t the Senate that originated the ‘tax’ but John Robert’s own injustice system, and nobody in the house or senate voted on that even once.
He dissident’t care then why should he care now? John Roberts is a tyrant, in his mind the ‘law’ is whatever he and his buddies say it is because they said it period.
There can be no more real justice in his presence than there is written text.
bkmk
LOL! Love The Swimmer as an angel.
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