As with the Humpty Dumpy, Roberts and his colleagues are taking the position, "When I use a word,it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.’ Or, in other words, the language of the law means nothing. All that matters is what the justices say. The judicial oligarchy rules.
"The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a challenge to the reach of the Obama health care law, rescuing the program from a potentially fatal legal challenge for the second time since Obamacare's inception.
By a 6-3 vote, the justices said consumers qualify for a subsidy that lowers the cost of premiums whether they buy their coverage through federal or state exchanges. Chief Justice John Roberts wrote the opinion.
"Congress passed the Affordable Care Act to improve health insurance markets, not to destroy them. If at all possible, we must interpret the Act in a way that is consistent with the former, and avoids the latter," the court wrote in its majority opinion .
Justice Antonin Scalia, writing for the dissenters, said people should start calling the law "SCOTUScare."
"This Court, however, concludes that this limitation would prevent the rest of the Act from working as well as hoped. So it rewrites the law to make tax credits available everywhere. We should start calling this law SCOTUScare."
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Opponents of the law claimed that the actual wording of the Affordable Care Act passed by Congress made subsidies available only to insurance customers who bought their policies through "an exchange established by the state" where the policyholders live."
SCOTUS Protects ObamaCare (6-3) – Ruling: The Words “Established By The State” Do NOT Mean “Established By The State”… Posted on June 25, 2015 by sundance SCOTUS did what many people figured they would do; with Chief Justice Roberts, yet again, joining the bench legislatures in a veiled effort to avoid the impression of a 5-4 ideological court.
The headline is greatly misleading: "Supreme Court Rejects Challenge to Obama Health Care Law". No, the Supreme Court twisted and contorted itself and the understanding of common words to create a politically expedient and infintely creative ruling that goes against established law and the law of this land.
Quote: Sanguine wrote in post #5The headline is greatly misleading: "Supreme Court Rejects Challenge to Obama Health Care Law". No, the Supreme Court twisted and contorted itself and the understanding of common words to create a politically expedient and infintely creative ruling that goes against established law and the law of this land.
This is not acceptable and must not stand.
Conservatives are the only ones who care about the rules!
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