The Supreme Court Justices all seem to agree on one thing when it comes to ObamaCare – they don’t want to read the 2,700 page piece of legislation. Justice Scalia went as far as to refer to it as cruel and unusual punishment.
Three days into oral arguments over President Barack Obama’s health care law, Supreme Court justices made a plea to the lawyers Wednesday: Please don’t make us read it.
Justice Antonin Scalia cut in when Deputy Solicitor General Edwin Kneedler said the justices would need to look at “the structure and the text” of the 2,700-page law .
“Mr. Kneedler, what happened to the Eighth Amendment?” Scalia asked — a joking reference to the Constitution’s prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment. “You really want us to go through these 2,700 pages?
“And do you really expect the court to do that? Or do you expect us to — to give this function to our law clerks? Is this not totally unrealistic? That we are going to go through this enormous bill item by item and decide each one?” (Read More)
Even though they haven’t read the massive bill, they do know how it was passed. Justice Scalia had a few words to say about the Cornhusker Kickback.
In related news, the left is already practicing how they’ll spin things if ObamaCare is struck down.
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Actually – it would be a REALLY GOOD IDEA. In fact, they should have to read it aloud. Oh – a better idea: Nancy Pelosi should read it to the Justices – all 2700 pages. This should restore the natural order of Checks and Balances. I heard some nit say that ‘laws passed by Congress are PRESUMED CONSTITUTIONAL.” Are you freakin kidding ???????? No wonder we end up with garbage laws. Look – we really do not need a system run like the TSA. When Roberts suggested that the govt could force you to buy a cell phone, I bet a whole bunch of lobbyists and politicians had a light bulb moment and are busy writing such legislation right now !!
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So you think this is funny that the laziest of the SCOTUS doesn’t want to do his job on a critical issue becasue it favors your ill-informed view? Have fun watching a family member die because insurance companies denied them coverage or discontinued expensive treatments if Obamacare is struck down.
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Maybe if the lazy democrat controlled congress had done THEIR job in the first place and actually READ this thing before they voted on it, we wouldn’t be in this mess.
Are you so naive to think that under obamacare, EVERYONE will get treated for every ailment for free???
Or would it just make you feel better knowing the GOVERNMENT denied your’s (or your family member’s) care???
Because we all know the government knows best!
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if they read it, the entire law will be rejected!
The law provides for continuous revisions that are non- reviewable and enforcable by HHS!
The ultimate police state, Obama wins, everyone else is a slave to the ravenous greed of the ultimate socialist state!
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…”The so-called system of checks and balances is a farce and a fraud; the reality is that all three branches of the federal government work together to conspire against the taxpayers for the benefit of the state and all of its appendages. As Judge Andrew Napalitano wrote in his book, The Constitution in Exile, the Supreme Court failed to rule a single federal law unconstitutional from 1937 to 1995. The Court is essentially a political rubber stamp operation with all of its black-robed ceremony being nothing more than part of the circus that is employed to dupe the public into acquiescing in its dictates.”…
http://lewrockwell.com/dilorenzo/dilorenzo228.html
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Well, we’ll find out some time between now and June where we stand.
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I know where we stand, and it is not as a nation governed by the people, for the people, but by the government for the government. This decision won’t change that fact, if they deign to throw us a sop and void certain parts of this law, or the entire law, the damage has already been done.
These social, liberal, progressives have nothing better to do with their lives than mess with other people, and are not going to be stopped by a setback. Case in point, dc and the right to be armed, a right in word only. The hoops one is required to jump through to meet the eligibility requirements are oppressive.
You be as optimistic as you wish, and optimism is a good thing, but we’ve been had.
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