Sunday, July 29, 2012

Scalia lambastes -- somebody



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



Res Ipsa Loquitor

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.



5 comments:

Jim - PRS said...

Had the pleasure of briefly meeting Justice Scalia a few years back. He's a regular guy who happens to be gorilla stompin' brilliant.

Anonymous said...

At 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?

*spit*

Sarge said...

*spit*... how about "puke" ?

Anonymous said...

As previously noted:

"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

Kristophr said...

Anonymous: No one is perfect, especially if perfect means agreeing with you 100% on politics.

One 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.

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