Posted on 03/04/2015 9:47:45 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts’s views of a key ObamaCare case argued on Wednesday are “a mystery,” according to CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin.
“Kennedy’s vote I would not put clearly in one camp or the other,” Toobin said on CNN. “Roberts is almost entirely a mystery.”
If the justices rule against the federal government, about 8 million people could lose subsidies that help them buy health insurance.
Toobin called Roberts’s relative silence “unusual.”
“The chief justice is usually one of the most active questioners,” he said
The CNN analyst made news in 2012 when the Supreme Court considered ObamaCare’s constitutionality.
He argued that Solicitor General Donald Verrilli had argued so poorly in favor of ObamaCare that the Supreme Court would gut the law, describing the performance as a “train wreck.”
In the end, the court ruled 5-4 in favor of Verrilli and the federal government, with Roberts casting the decisive vote.
On Wednesday, Toobin tweeted about his past remarks.
The funny thing is, he thinks they're a bunch of fools. He doesn't even hide it.
Let hope Roberts wakes the hell up this time.
What an awesome responsibility the Justices of the Year 2015 have to Adams and the other Framers of America's Constitution "make good use" of the opportunity they have now to "preserve" freedom for future generations!
If they "do not," then history will record their action as a betrayal of the trust of all the brave men and women who have been willing to sacrifice everything for freedom's cause--from 1776 to now.
May they feel the heavy cloak of responsibility they bear for the freedom of those future generations, and may their opinions recall those ideas of individual liberty so beautifully articulated by the Framers of the Constitution they are sworn to uphold.
"On every question of construction, let us carry ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit manifested in the debates, and instead of trying what meaning may be squeezed out of the text, or invented against it, conform to the probable one in which it was passed." - Thomas Jefferson, letter to William Johnson, June 12, 1823, The Complete Jefferson, p. 322.
As long as Chief Injustice Roberts wants to remain in the closet and keep the kids he adopted through unusual circumstances, Obamacare will be upheld.
Obama has got the goods on Roberts.
“Toobin called Roberts’s relative silence “unusual.”
He’s already made his decision.
Law 101—the Court cannot make you a better contract.
The SC cannot divine the intention of Congress—the wording is the wording. If Congress wanted something else, they need to have stated it differently.
If the SC gets this basic tenet wrong, Congress will have to correct the decision, which, under the Constitution, they have every right to do.
Takes a lot to convert a liberal.
” Obama has got the goods on Roberts.”
Or Roberts is indeed a statist turncoat hand picked by Dubya.
The law plainly states that only State Exchanges can provide subsidies. And all of the background evidence, particularly that of Jon Gruber describing how they were trying to force republican governors into setting up exchanges in their respective states, clearly shows that the architects of this monstrosity wanted the State Exchanges and NOT the Federal Exchanges to be able to offer subsidies.
If this case goes the wrong way, I’m going to move to a country with a better understanding of democratic principles, like, maybe, Venezuela.
SCOTUS is EXEMPT.
Their families and Staff and their families are EXEMPT.
EXEMPT SCOTUS has urinated on the Constitution from
their very first ex parte meeting with their Lord
who made them EXEMPT.
I can’t figure out if Roberts has been threatened or he’s taking bribes.
Let’s keep this easy. They write a Law. Pass this Law. Made a Major Error to the very Key point in said Law. Now we have to ask the SCOTUS, well, basically, what did we actually mean. Really Folks???? Did the States that refused this crap get a say at SCOTUS? It was meant to punish those States, and they held firm.... It’s only Bizzarro world when you let it be!
All I know is Roberts WAS one of the very few reasons I was grateful for the Bush administration.
Blackmailed most likely......................
If Roberts was blackmailed into that tortured ruling last time, nothing will have changed. Hence, his silence.
I can’t figure out if Roberts has been threatened or he’s taking bribes.
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