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click on the image to enlarge David Horowitz FrontPageMag.com 6/28/2012 Politically speaking there couldn’t have been a better Supreme Court decision. If Obamacare had been declared unconstitutional, the Democrats’ campaign in November would have been those horrible Republicans have politicized the Supreme Court and denied affordable healthcare to everyone. The focus would be […] June 29th, 2012 | Tags: Americans for Prosperity (AFP), Chief Justice John Roberts, Commerce Clause, David Horowitz, Koch brothers, Repeal | Category: Barack Obama, Elections, Health Care, Politics, SCOTUS, Taxes, Tea Parties, US Constitution | Comments are closed
ObamaCare survives, but the Commerce Clause has limits. James Taranto The Wall Street Journal 6/28/2012 ObamaCare is still the law of the land, and we blame George W. Bush. In National Federation of Independent Businesses v. Sebelius, four associate justices adopted the position of Florida’s Judge Roger Vinson, voting to strike down the entire law–we […] June 29th, 2012 | Tags: Chief Justice John Roberts, Commerce Clause, David Axelrod, Glenn Reynolds, Judge Roger Vinson, Marbury v. Madison, NFIB v. Sebelius, President George W. Bush, Rep. Patrick Kennedy, St. Louis Tea Party | Category: Barack Obama, Congress, Elections, Health Care, Missouri, Politics, Progressives, SCOTUS, Taxes, Tea Parties, US Constitution | Comments are closed
Thomas Lifson American Thinker 6/28/2012 It looks to me that there are some sweet lemons for conservatives in the ObamaCare decision. Before we burn the chief justice in effigy, let’s read the decision and think about the implications. First of all, upholding ObamaCare is going to energize opposition to Obama, and the determination to elect […] June 28th, 2012 | Tags: Ann Althouse, Anti-Injunction Act (AIA), Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, Charles Krauthammer, Chief Justice John Roberts, Commerce Clause, Donald Verrilli, Mark Levin, NFIB v. Sebelius, Repeal, Sen. Marco Rubio | Category: 10th Amendment, Barack Obama, Bloggers, Health Care, Progressives, SCOTUS, Socialism, Taxes | Comments are closed
…go back to 2009. Olympia Snowe was the deciding vote to get Obamacare out of the Senate Committee. Had she voted no, we’d not be here now… I’m Not Down on John Roberts Erick Erickson RedState 6/28/2012 Having gone through the opinion, I am not going to beat up on John Roberts. I […] June 28th, 2012 | Tags: Chief Justice John Roberts, Commerce Clause, defund, Democratic National Committee, individual mandate, Medicaid, Mike Carvin, Mitt Romney, Nancy Pelosi, Necessary and Proper Clause, NFIB v. Sebelius, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), Repeal, Sen. Olympia Snowe, Sen. Ted Kennedy, Speaker John Boehner, Twitter | Category: Barack Obama, Elections, federal mandates, Health Care, insurance, IRS, legislation, Politics, Progressives, sarah palin, SCOTUS, Taxes | Comments are closed
Thomas Lifson American Thinker 6/28/2012 Chief Justice Roberts delivered a shocker joining the liberal wing of the Court in finding the mandate is a tax, and therefore permissible. The entire ACA act has been upheld, except for some limitations on the federal power to affect state Medicaid programs. The decision has not yet been posted […] June 28th, 2012 | Tags: Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, Bill Whittle, Chief Justice John Roberts, Commerce Clause, individual mandate, Justice Anthony Kennedy, Justice Antonin Scalia, Justice Clarence Thomas, Justice Samuel Alito, Medicaid, Medicare, Mitt Romney, NFIB v. Sebelius, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), Twitter | Category: Barack Obama, Congress, Glenn Beck, Health Care, Progressives, sarah palin, SCOTUS, Socialism, Taxes, US Constitution | Comments are closed
Nick Gillespie Reason Magazine 6/23/2012 As the nation waits on the Supreme Court’s ruling on the Affordable Care Act (a.k.a. Obamacare), it’s worth taking a look at the 2010 ReasonTV video that the New York Times recently cited as one of the reasons why the individual mandate is under legal attack. Here’s the original writeup […] June 23rd, 2012 | Tags: Commerce Clause, direct tax, Erwin Chemerinsky, Gibbons v Ogden, individual mandate, John Eastman, Judge Roger Vinson, Justice Elena Kagan, medical marijuana, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), Sen. Tom Coburn, tyranny, Wickard v. Filburn | Category: 10th Amendment, California, Congress, federal mandates, Health Care, SCOTUS, States, Taxes, US Constitution | Comments are closed
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