The Right Wing of the Court and 'The Party' have absolutely no decorum, decency or morality governing their overt partisanship. They disrespect the Supreme Court by never assigning their behavior as a matter of brevity.
The Right Wing Media chronically sounds as though the sky is falling and now they simply have no control over the opportunity this could make to reverse "The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act." An over reaction is not known to the Right Wing Media, it is simply there chronic "Nervous Nelly" state.
The date for the hearing by the Court hasn't even been set yet, but the battle for political domination is being carried out as if there is actually a chance this is the doom and gloom for the Democrats of 2012. It isn't. It won't be. The hearing is to take place in March, there are three topics being considered and NONE involve the Medicare provisions of "The Patient Prtoection and Affordable Care Act." NONE. The Medicare provisions stand.
The three provisions of The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act that will be reviewed by the Court; which is to take oral arguments on all there provisons on the same day and time requiring extended periods of time; are the individual mandate, whether an individual mandate will end the entire bill and whether there is coersion of the States by the mandate regarding the EXPANSION of Medicare.
The individual mandate has a long history in the USA including automobile insurance and The Sixteenth Amendment that requires all Americans to pay taxes. If the Sixteenth Amendment isn't an individual mandate than I don't know what is. The Sixteenth Amendment requries every American to assess their payment of taxes to the federal government without exception. So, like, what's the problem?
The individual mandate does not sink the entire law invoked about two years previous ot the proposed hearing date by the Supreme Court. The Medicare provision alone is a deficit reducing measure that also insures the continuous care of citizens without private failings causing a bailout of companies or a hardship to participants.
As far as the coerson goes that is pure, unadultered nonsense. The States are subject to federal laws and regulations across the board when it comes to commerce and the lives of citizens. The entire President's Cabinet exists to provide services to States including education, health, transportation, infrastructure, and the list goes on. If there is coersion of The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act then the entire federal government is guilty of same.
The review of this bill is nothing more than HIGH PROFILE political horseplay and nothing more. It has been horseplay throughout the Ninth Circuit and the State Attorney Generals that have thrown in with it.
The Los Angeles Times is reporting (click title to entry - thank you) that just hours after the United States Supreme Court huddled to decide whether it would take up the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act, Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas were honored at a dinner sponsored by the very law firm that will argue for the challengers in the case.
Among the sponsors of the fundraiser for the Federalist Society, a conservative group long favored by Scalia and Thomas, were Bancroft PLLC, the law firm that will argue that the insurance mandate provisions of the ACA is an overreach of Congress’ powers under the Commerce Clause of the Constitution and, therefore, unconstitutional. Also listed as an event sponsor was law firm Jones Day, the lead counsel in a separate case challenging the law brought by the National Federation of Independent Business....
