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Thursday, July 2, 2015

Words Have NO Meaning For Supreme Court, Only What ObamaCrapCare Should Have Said. Penalty That Was Interpreted To Be A Tax.

The Supreme Court’s Horrifying Decision Regarding Obamacare

25655636_sNo longer does the Supreme court really to protect the people.
In their most recent ruling on the Affordable Healthcare Act, 6 justices voted against 3 to allow Obamacare to survive yet again.
This means millions of Americans will be given the opportunity to receive taxpayer supported health insurance at the expense of millions more.
The problem here is how the Supreme Court went out of their way to redefine the law.
Breitbat writes:
The majority acknowledged that the word “State” was, at best, “ambiguous.” And it rejected the idea that an executive agency, in this case the Internal Revenue Service, could decide the meaning of that term.
Rewriting the law is evidently meant for the courts, not the administration–or Congress.
The majority–led, again, by Chief Justice John Roberts, who infamously interpreted a “penalty” as a tax to uphold Obamacare’s constitutionality in 2012–held that the “context” of the word “State” mattered more than the “most natural reading.”
And the context was that Obamacare had to be saved from itself. After all, Congress could not have meant to pass a bad, self-defeating policy, could it?
The dissent, by Justice Antonin Scalia, was blistering.
“Words no longer have meaning if an Exchange that is not established by a State is ‘established by the State,'” he wrote.
“Under all the usual rules of interpretation, in short, the Government should lose this case. But normal rules of interpretation seem always to yield to the overriding principle of the present Court: The Affordable Care Act must be saved.”
If a law was badly formulated, that was not the Court’s problem, he argued. It was up to Congress to rescue the subsidies for Obamacare, not the Justices. And if people did not like it, tough: that was why the Justices were meant to serve life terms. They were meant to be above politics.
Instead, Scalia noted, the Court had adopted a particular political bent.
He concluded:
We should start calling this law SCOTUScare.
Perhaps the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act will attain the enduring status of the Social Security Act or the Taft-Hartley Act; perhaps not. But this Court’s two decisions on the Act will surely be remembered through the years….And the cases will publish forever the discouraging truth that the Supreme Court of the United States favors some laws over others, and is prepared to do whatever it takes to uphold and assist its favorites.
It looks like if anything most of congress as well as the Supreme Court are firmly in the executives pocket.
Rarely does the Supreme Court rule agains the President, and if they do it’s generally on something relatively small and insignificant.
Do you think the legislation has a chance of being repealed if a Republican wins in 2016? Or will the GOP allow it to continue forward?

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