Mandate UPHELD!

[Jarod]

http://www.scotusblog.com/cover-it-live/

 

[Jarod]

Roberts joins in the majority!

 

[Damocles]

So, they ruled that it is a tax.

Oddly enough CNN says it was struck down...

http://www.cnn.com/

 

[Damocles]

It's still there.

 

[Jarod]

So, they ruled that it is a tax.

Oddly enough CNN says it was struck down...

http://www.cnn.com/

I am on several cites, CNN appears to be incorrect. It was not found constitutional as an extention of the CC, but as a tax.

 

[Jarod]

Like I previously said.... It is not a punishment but a tax if you dont buy health care.

 

[anatta]

So, they ruled that it is a tax.

Oddly enough CNN says it was struck down...

http://www.cnn.com/

LMAO> the use of the Commecre Clause as a "non tax" suddenly becomes a tax. The premise that it wasn't a tax, suddenly becomes a tax.
Welcome to Orweillian speak. words have no meaning. the 10th has no meaning. Federalism is dead.

 

[Jarod]

They are reporting Roberts was the swing vote...

I bet Obama is regretting that he voted against Roberts now!

 

[Damocles]

Yeah, I realize that. I'm just pointing out that CNN is wrong... Is this like a Dewey moment? (It just changed).

 

[Mott the Hoople]

It's still there.

Try SCOTUSBlog

http://www.scotusblog.com/cover-it-live/

 

[Damocles]

They are live-blogging it...

http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2012/06/28/how-will-supreme-court-rule-on-health-care-law/

But here is what they reported:

[Updated at 10:06 a.m. ET] In a landmark decision that will impact the nation for decades, the Supreme Court on Thursday struck down a key provision of President Barack Obama's health care law, ruling that requiring people to have health insurance violates the Constitution.

 

[Cancel 2016.2]

Yeah, I realize that. I'm just pointing out that CNN is wrong... Is this like a Dewey moment? (It just changed).

No, it was confusing to the media. They rejected the ability to use a penalty/extension of the commerce clause, upheld that it could be a tax.

Basically, OBAMA RAISED TAXES!!!

 

[Jarod]

I am watching cspan, video of the anti-ACA at the Supreme Court.... They are pissed!

 

[Jarod]

http://video.foxnews.com/video-live-streaming.html?video_id=1155606218001

 

[Jarod]

Quote from the opinion...

"Our precedent demonstrates that Congress had the power to impose the exaction in Section 5000A under the taxing power, and that Section 5000A need not be read to do more than impose a tax. This is sufficient to sustain it. "

 

[Mott the Hoople]

They are reporting Roberts was the swing vote...

I bet Obama is regretting that he voted against Roberts now!

That's two major votes in which Roberts has shown his respect for legal precedent. Though unquestionably a conservative jurist I think that this ends the argument that he's a conservative judicial activist like Scalia.

 

[Jarod]

MSNBC now reporting that Mandate is Upheld!

 

[Damocles]

No, it was confusing to the media. They rejected the ability to use a penalty/extension of the commerce clause, upheld that it could be a tax.

Basically, OBAMA RAISED TAXES!!!

See my first post. Note the first line of it...

 

[Mott the Hoople]

I am watching cspan, video of the anti-ACA at the Supreme Court.... They are pissed!

Just as the pro ACA would have been had they struck it down. No surprize there.

 

[Jarod]

That's two major votes in which Roberts has shown his respect for legal precedent. Though unquestionably a conservative jurist I think that this ends the argument that he's a conservative judicial activist like Scalia.

I admit I was wrong about Roberts, I disagree with much of his conservatism, but respect his ability to follow proceident.