C. Edmund Wright is optimistic, though his opinion of Roberts' objectivity is rather low:
My guess…..Roberts is soooo embarrassed that he’ll vote unconstitutional at ANY chance….no matter how thin.djf explains the clever trap that Roberts has laid:
I think if you read the opinion correctly, it was never ruled constitutional.VerySadAmerican thinks once you start using birth control you can never stop!
Part of it WAS in fact ruled unconstitutional, the part about the Medicaid funding.
The individual mandate part, well, the opinion basically says “Congress CAN do this if they call it a tax...”
But no where did the court acknowledge or deem that Congress HAD done it under their power to tax.
The first person who gets charged with a penalty is on the fast-track to take it back to SCOTUS!
And at that point, it WOULD be ruled unconstitutional - there’s no way around it.
My guess....Roberts will say he and his wife wouldn’t have any kids if their mother would have had birth control. But he’s sure she would have made the right “choice” and he believes all women should have a “choice”.stockpirate is taking things rather personally:
thx for posting a picture of the fascist homo....RobertsRevolting cat! knows it's just the blackmail he has no evidence of:
“How are your adopted Irish kids doing, Mr Chief Justice?”I swear, making up crap to believe and planning to shoot people is all Freepers seem to do these days!
soycd is either failing to make some kind of point or into genocidal eugenics. Possibly both:
How about we make contraceptives MANDATORY for anyone on the government teat. It would cost much less than the trillions of tax dollars taken from us to provide for the moochers. Add a huge fine for anyone making babies while on taxpayer life support.Revel is pretty sure the Supreme Court is hell and Roberts is the devil:
Why would any conservative want anything to go to the US Communist supreme court in this day and age. It has been almost fully infiltrated by Godless forces of evil that are hostile to the USA. And Roberts is the Two Horned leader carrying the pitch fork of doom.Of course Congress? Also infiltrated. Also Free Republic.
Cleaning out the court is far more important that cleaning out congress. The court has far more power. And that is why it was infiltrated.
supercat makes up what he thinks the Constitution says:
Nothing specifically gives the Supreme Court the right to strike down a law as unconstitutional. Really all that can happen is that the Supreme Court strikes down a particular prosecution and effectively say that it will do likewise with any other prosecutions under the statute. Nothing would particularly prevent prosecutors from ignoring the Supreme Court, or saying that for whatever reason the particular cases they're bringing are in some way different from the prosecutions the Court invalidated.
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ReplyDeleteClearly, what we need is for corporations to be defined as religious entities, 'cause then they wouldn't have to pay any taxes at all!
ReplyDeleteI mean, granted, a lot of 'em don't pay taxes now. But they still have to pay accountants to ensure that outcome, which is like saying they don't deserve it.
Plus, once they're free from the burden of taxation they can hire more employees, provided those employees are of sufficiently high moral caliber, and are willing to sign an agreement not to spend their wages on contraception or donations to Planned Parenthood or hippity-hop music CDs or anything like that.
Because when you think about it, why should employees be able to take money given to them by religious employers and use it for stuff that religious employers don't like? Think about it! If employers aren't allowed to limit their employees' insurance coverage to Stuff That Isn't Icky, then pretty soon we're gonna have a situation where some lowly fry cook at a biblically run fast-food restaurant can blithely save up tens of thousands of dollars over the course of, say, 1 million years in order to buy Serrano's "Piss Christ" and display it in the privacy of his own home, thereby making a mockery of everything Jesus intended when he wrote the Articles of Confederation.
And don't say it'll never happen, because I just described a situation where it would have, if it had, which it could. So don't say it'll never happen!
I am sensing sarcasm.
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