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Scalia: Health Care Mandate ‘Can’t Be a Pig’ "Bitch Slaps" Judge Nancy? “ 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— “ 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. ” ”