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Justice Antonin Scalia continued a recent
media push against the Supreme Court decision on the 2010 health care
law Sunday.
In an appearance on “Fox News Sunday,” the Reagan appointee repeated
his argument that the health insurance mandate in the law is
unconstitutional, saying the majority opinion that it was a tax is not
backed up.
You don’t
interpret a
penalty to be a pig. It can’t be a pig. What my dissent
said ... was simply that there is no way to regard this penalty as a
tax. It simply does not bear that meaning. In order to save the
constitutionality, you cannot give the text a meaning it will not bear.
[Roll
Call]
Scalia
went on to say that Obama's attempt to influence the court in April, by
accusing “judicial activism,” had no effect on his decision on the
case. And then , in what I interpret to be an overt bitch-slap of
both
Obama and Chief Justice John Roberts, for
changing his vote, said—
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What
can he do to me, or to any of us? We have life tenures, and we have it
precisely so we won’t be influenced by politics, by threats from
anybody.
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Had the pleasure of briefly meeting Justice Scalia a few years back. He's a regular guy who happens to be gorilla stompin' brilliant.
ReplyDeleteAt the same time he also allows as how there is all sorts of gun control that can be done under the Second Amendment... which brings us to the question, whose bitch is who?
ReplyDelete*spit*
*spit*... how about "puke" ?
ReplyDeleteAs previously noted:
ReplyDelete"How many legs does a dog have if you call its tail a leg?
Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg."
A. Lincoln
IMO, should have been rejected for re-write. Let the Legislature do its job. !!As written!! it was noted as being un-constitutional.
What, do we 'interpret' words to be replaced with other words in black and white legislative text? Do we "Deem" it passed? Do we "Deem" it a tax? What is the difference?
It was passed fraudulently, without the normal hail of attacks it should have taken for being indeed a tax. All the brickbats and rotten tomatoes that would have been thrown at Congress for a new TAX somehow were left on the shelf at home. It needs to be paraded by the people in full bright letters that it is 'the largest tax increase in history', shouted from the rooftops, as they used to say.
tomw
Anonymous: No one is perfect, especially if perfect means agreeing with you 100% on politics.
ReplyDeleteOne of the most pro-gun judges I have ever read about, Kozinski on the Ninth Circuit, is a conservative jew who wrote the original decision ordering that cross erected on National Forest land over Palm Springs to be torn down.
I agreed with this decision as well ... but you might not.
BTW, the cross stayed up. The folks who put it up got a clue, changed it into a proper war memorial, and the SCOTUS reversed Kozinski, because if they hadn't, fanatics would have sued over the crosses over graves in Arlington next.