Posted on 06/25/2015 10:18:40 AM PDT by Jim Robinson
On Thursday, the Supreme Court released its long-awaited decision on Obamacare’s IRS subsidies under federal health insurance exchanges. And, as expected, the Court rewrote the statute to help President Obama’s signature law.
With each passing day of Supreme Court decisions, conservative principles begin to feel more and more like the survivors of the Scream films: it’s only a matter of time before you are next for the knife.
In King v. Burwell, four citizens sued over Obamacare, alleging that they had been forced to purchase health insurance; they said that the federal health exchange set up in Virigina in absence of a state-created health exchange under Obamacare did not count as a “state exchange” for purposes of the statute, making it illegal for them to receive federal subsidies for their health insurance. Without the subsidies, they would no longer be required to purchase health insurance, since it would be too expensive.
Now, Obamacare’s language is quite clear: it states that only those who buy insurance via state-run health exchanges may receive federal subsidies. This provision was purposefully designed to incentivize states to set up their own exchanges, in order that politicians could take credit for making health insurance more widely available with the help of the federal government. When states turned down the opportunity to set up such exchanges, the scheme collapsed. Or at least it would have, had not President Obama’s IRS casually rewritten the law, and provided federal health insurance subsidies via the federal health exchanges in violation of both the letter and spirit of the law.
But no matter: the law is whatever President Obama says it is...
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
And Bush and Clinton...
The USSC is a branch of the Executive and reports to the AG, or that will be the case soon.
A government branch which does not operate according to USConstitutional Law, should be disbanded at best. Acting upon supposed _legal_ traditions instead of US Law, as defined by USConstitution, is just brazen lawlessness; at worst this is treason.
I ask you to carefully consider the words of Oliver Cromwell, Dissolution of the Long Parliament, given to the House of Commons, 20 April 1653:
“It is high time for me to put an end to your sitting in this place, which you have dishonored by your contempt of all virtue, and defiled by your practice of every vice; ye are a factious crew, and enemies to all good government; ye are a pack of mercenary wretches, and would like Esau sell your country for a mess of pottage, and like Judas betray your God for a few pieces of money.
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Is there a single virtue now remaining amongst you? Is there one vice you do not possess? Ye have no more religion than my horse; gold is your God; which of you have not bartered your conscience for bribes? Is there a man amongst you that has the least care for the good of the Commonwealth?
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Ye sordid prostitutes have you not defiled this sacred place, and turned the Lords temple into a den of thieves, by your immoral principles and wicked practices? Ye are grown intolerably odious to the whole nation; you were deputed here by the people to get grievances redressed, are yourselves gone! So! Take away that shining bauble there, and lock up the doors.
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In the name of God, go!”
Rest assured none of us will ever know how and with what he was paid. Couldn’t open your attached picture.
If the court is going to legislate as they have done in this case they need to stand for election every two years. It appears that the lifetime job is a bad idea. Who knew?
"I've got a pen and I've got a phone.. I have stacks of Department of Justice, FBI and NSA folders." Obama.
0bama STILL has blackmail material to hold over Robert's head, and socialists on the court, so the only way to get rid of the abomination known as 0bamacare is for congress to repeal it.
Now who thinks Little Johnny Boehner and Mitchie McConnel will remove their lips from 0bama's ass long enough to do it?
Dred Scott decision!
Roberts is owned by the blackmailers. What really ticks me off is you KNOW Bush had all the dirt on him, too. Yet he still put him on the bench. I wonder why.
Even when the person who wrote the law said he did it just to make the republican governors have to support obamacare, Roberts says “Well, he really didn’t mean it.”
I know a liberal who used the same terminology to defend Obama’s stupidity. I pointed out some of the stupid things he’d said and the liberal said “Well, he didn’t mean it.”
As for Roberts, thanks again, George Bush.
They know they’re making sh*t up.
We know they’re making sh*t up.
They know we know they’re making sh*t up.
We know they know we know they’re making sh*t up.
There is no pretending anymore.
It’s a dictatorship.
I can not believe Bush could have made such a mistake, he gave us Alito yet was sooooo far off with Roberts what the hell happened!!!!
Blackmail happened. Or maybe he was a fraud all along.
He’s never said one bad word about Obama. I think his Christianity is a fraud. He worships Obama.
In fact, I despise him so much I wish he’d start drinking again.
Even the most dense must see that the only law there is in this land is what five out of nine justices say there is. They can kick a law out for any reason and they can interpret laws to say what they don't in order to get any result they want. They are appointed for life and not accountable in any way. They are our overlords and they aren't really bothering to try to hide it anymore.
Forbes tweeted that the ruling is good.for small businss
Yikes
Is this to say even if a state, say Texas, refused to take the subsidy, Texan citizens would still be legally mandated to buy insurance, under threat of fines from the IRS?
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