Just The News: DOJ filing says law has illegally limited consumer choices, raised costs and should be struck down because the individual mandate requirement is unconstitutional.
In a dramatic election-year request, the Trump administration Thursday night asked the Supreme Court to strike down the entirety of the Obamacare law, saying it wrongly limits consumer choices, raises Americans costs and violates the Constitution.
In a closely-watched filing, the Justice Department told the justices that the Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate violated the Constitution, and if that provision is struck down, the rest of the law must be terminated.
“The entire ACA thus must fall with the individual mandate, though the scope of relief entered in this case should be limited to provisions shown to injure the plaintiffs,” the administration’s brief argued. MORE HERE
Good luck. Roberts has his balls caught in a wringer.
You had your chance to do the right thing once, John Roberts. You should thank President Trump for giving you a second chance. I’m not holding my breath, though.
Roberts is just another example of republicans getting screwed by the people they elect. It was one of ours that appointed him.
There are always clues these traitors are traitors. Just like there were clues that Gorsuch would be a traitor when he was nominated.
But we bend over and take it, so they’re happy to give it to us.
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A Kansas St student made one of those “congrats to George Floyd for being drug free one month’ jokes and he has proceeded to get flooded with death threats from fellow students who are said to be using their real names.
The University is investigating the jokester. They have made no mention of investigating the fellow students who are threatening him with death.
I know how this will be handled. The jokester will be sanctioned in some way. The people making criminal death threats will get off scott free. Conservatives who are watching this will be intimidated into silence. And the new “silence is complicity’ norm will compel conservatives to soon take a knee for blm or be threatened with death.
All while Mitch Mcconnell and Lindsay Graham have a few drinks and laughs at happy hour with their ‘distinguished opposition.”
if nothing else, this will absorb a large amount of LSM bandwidth for a while.
If you actually want a Supreme Court built on Justices that won’t compromise their principles, ones that can be trusted to stay true to what they believed in when they were appointed, never appoint anyone with a family to it as a Justice.
OT, but related, and enough to piss you off.
https://thefederalist.com/2020/06/17/scotus-gun-case-denials-signal-conservative-justices-dont-trust-roberts-with-the-second-amendment/
Fox News Radio covered this yesterday. “In the midst of a corona virus upsurge!” And “Trump has no plan for a replacement (for Obamacare)!”
Fox News Radio is now the enemy disguised as one of us.
A typical story on Fox will have a quote by Nancy Pelosi, followed by a quote from President Trump, followed by a “but” and a rebuttal to Trump’s statement by the news reader. I hate these people
“Fox News Radio is now the enemy disguised as one of us.”
Has been for quite a while, just nobody recognized it or wanted to admit it if they did.
We don’t need A replacement! Go back to free market competition.
fk grobama “care”
Wowza! After… (taps watch) three-and-a-half years!? I wonder what could cause this fake news, fake pandering, fake now?
Would Roberts save himself and recuse his participation? Nah, just joking. He’s being paid by the left – they won’t kill his family if he does what they tell him to.
Not likely to happen since Roberts was the fool who saved Obamacare in the first place.
Well, I was gonna say something about Roberts, but y’all beat me to it.
FOX is ridiculous. Trump had a healthcare plan since before he was nominated. I know, because the left kept smearing it.
I am looking fwd to reading Roberts opinion when he votes 5-4 FOR ObolaCare Unaffordable Healthcare.
The Caspar Milquetoast obsequiousness and Vidkun Quisling backstabbery verbiage will ooze with Deep State circumlocution
Where’s Stanley Tucci when we need him? Give him the addresses for Breyer and GinsBORG. He’ll know what to do.