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Leaked Emails Reveals Clinton Campaign Plotted Supreme Court Threat Over Obamacare
Zero Hedge ^ | 10-13-2016 | Tyler Durden

Posted on 10/13/2016 8:09:17 PM PDT by Neidermeyer

Remember back in 2012 when the Supreme Court narrowly upheld the Obamacare mandate with a 5-4 decision but only after Judge Roberts, a Bush appointee, seemingly parted with his conservative counterparts on the bench to effectively, single-handedly preserve perhaps the most destructive piece of legislation in American history (if not, we wrote about it here)? Many people were shocked by Judge Roberts' decision and subsequently alleged that it was driven more by politics than his interpretation of the Constitution.

Turns out those people were proven right today as a new Podesta email confirms that the Obama administration applied political pressure on Roberts to sway his decision: "it was pretty critical that the President threw the gauntlet down last time on the Court...that was vital to scaring Roberts off."

(Excerpt) Read more at zerohedge.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: corruption
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1 posted on 10/13/2016 8:09:18 PM PDT by Neidermeyer
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To: Neidermeyer

Comey - corrupted FBI
Lerner - corrupted IRS
Roberts - corrupted Supreme Court


2 posted on 10/13/2016 8:13:11 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: WildHighlander57; LucyT; onyx; Liz; Jim Robinson; maggief; Jane Long

FYI.
No rule of Law


3 posted on 10/13/2016 8:15:05 PM PDT by hoosiermama (“Christian faith is not the past but the present and the future. Make it stronger. "DJT)
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To: gaijin

If the decision was made under duress, then does that make it illegal and render it invalid?


4 posted on 10/13/2016 8:15:15 PM PDT by CondorFlight (I)
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To: Neidermeyer

Oh good grief!

Political pressure on the court is nothing unusual.
And the ACA IS a tax.


5 posted on 10/13/2016 8:18:59 PM PDT by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
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To: Neidermeyer

Can “political pressure” mean blackmail?


6 posted on 10/13/2016 8:21:24 PM PDT by Karl Spooner
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To: CondorFlight; null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; TWhiteBear; WildHighlander57; ...
Leaked Emails Reveals Clinton Campaign Plotted Supreme Court Threat Over Obamacare

>>>>If the decision was made under duress, then does that make it illegal and render it invalid?<<<<

7 posted on 10/13/2016 8:23:05 PM PDT by LucyT
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To: CondorFlight

no. There was no physical duress. Roberts was told he would look bad if he did not uphold. They knew Roberts was weak. He was and probably is taking dilantin. That saps one’s will power cumulatively.


8 posted on 10/13/2016 8:24:38 PM PDT by arthurus (Hillary's campaign is getting shaky)
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If the decision was made under duress, then does that make it illegal and render it invalid?

One or more would have to admit that but given the message Scalia sent them.....

9 posted on 10/13/2016 8:28:15 PM PDT by GregNH (If you can't fight, please find a good place to hide!)
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To: Neidermeyer

Why should anything surprise me concerning a weak (perhaps homosexual) SC justice that very likely flubbed the oath of office to Barry so that he could secretly use a Koran for him to swear his oath.


10 posted on 10/13/2016 8:33:11 PM PDT by Pilgrim's Progress (http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx D)
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If they threatened to take his (adopted) children away, would that render the decision as being made ‘under duress’?

And hence invalid?


11 posted on 10/13/2016 8:34:14 PM PDT by CondorFlight (I)
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To: Neidermeyer

How the hell can the Chief Justice of the United States of America be scared off by any president ?


12 posted on 10/13/2016 8:38:42 PM PDT by stylin19a
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To: Neidermeyer

**Turns out those people were proven right today as a new Podesta email confirms that the Obama administration applied political pressure on Roberts to sway his decision: “it was pretty critical that the President threw the gauntlet down last time on the Court...that was vital to scaring Roberts off.”**

I knew this at the time it happened and voiced it then. Obama blackmailed Roberts


13 posted on 10/13/2016 8:39:09 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: Neidermeyer
Look at what is #1 by a Yuge margin on the minds of Americans, even more troubling that a terror attack:

#1 Corrupt Government Officials


14 posted on 10/13/2016 8:40:01 PM PDT by bigbob (The Hillary indictment will have to come from us.)
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To: Salvation

And now we know that Hillary was in on it too.


15 posted on 10/13/2016 8:40:27 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: Salvation

Does Roberts ride in Epsteins plane too?


16 posted on 10/13/2016 8:52:49 PM PDT by inchworm
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To: Salvation

Does Roberts ride in Epsteins plane too?


17 posted on 10/13/2016 8:53:09 PM PDT by inchworm
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To: stylin19a

They have embarrassing information on him. That is the likely answer. Who knows what it is.


18 posted on 10/13/2016 8:57:30 PM PDT by Lent
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To: Neidermeyer

If Trump doesn’t win, we are so screwed.


19 posted on 10/13/2016 9:01:43 PM PDT by SubMareener (Save us from Quarterly Freepathons! Become a MONTHLY DONOR!)
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To: inchworm

It was about the adoption of his children.


20 posted on 10/13/2016 9:06:23 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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