Supreme Court allows Obamacare to stand!!!

[PunkinPi]

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By 7 to 2, Supreme Court allows Obamacare to stand.

This is a BFD!!!

ETA - Alito and Gorsuch dissent

[Alpeduez21]

1. Woot! Woot!

Awesome. I wonder if the mandate can be reinstated

[Tomconroy]

4. No reason it can't.

All the Republicans did was reduce the penalty tax rate to zero. The law does seem to be doing OK without the penalty.

[AllaN01Bear]

2. ding ding ding.

i hear the rs. groaning now .

[Sympthsical]

3. And they thought they were so clever getting Kavenaugh and Barrett in there

Didn't work out quite how they figured.

I think Roberts will let Obamacare fall over his dead body. I'd be curious to see what the behind-the-scenes was like.

[Johnny2X2X]

9. I know someone who knows Barrett

Had her as a professor at Notre Dame and got to know her. This person said she's not the worst Trump could have done, she's not going to be far right on most issues and she's a serious mind for the law and open to more liberal interpretations of case history.

My biggest issue with her is her integrity though, she knew writing an op-ed, however disingenuous about Trump, would get her fast tracked for the Supreme Court. She did just that, sold out her beliefs and got rewarded. On Roe v Wade though I expect her to vote against it, but I think Kanavaugh and/or Gorsuch will surprise on that issue.

[Sympthsical]

11. Kavenaugh has been nearly as bad as assumed

I wonder if the nature of his confirmation has something to do with it. Like he knows everyone's watching him like a hawk. A kid too afraid to reach into the cookie jar, because he knows mom's watching.

But, being on the Court does things to people. Hell, Souter was a Bush appointee.

Anyone on the Court got their out of a lot of ambition. Not sure the op-ed thing bothers me too much. The Roe thing worries me a hell of a lot more. I can't honestly say I know too much about her.

[Johnny2X2X]

5. This was a serious challenge and could have gotten the law thrown out entirely

But it's now got a lot of case law backing it up, it's here to day and Biden has strengthened it, he put several fixes into the American Rescue Plan.

[BuddhaGirl]

6. Great news!

Not a ruling on the merits, but we'll take it!

[Wounded Bear]

15. But the way they ruled on standing seems to make it more difficult for future challenges...

at least from the commentary I'm hearing on MSNBC.

[TraceNC]

16. Same general opinion on CNN.

There have been a few references to this ruling virtually closing off future challenges, and one comment about how the Roberts Court clearly doesn’t want to weigh in on this.

[zuul]

7. . . .

[edhopper]

8. I get Alito

he is on the wrong side of everything. Surprised Thomas did not go along with him.
But why did Gorsuch dissent?

[superpatriotman]

10. Common sense

It doesn’t harm you if these people use Obamacare:

The justices noted that there is no harm to opponents from the provisions that they are challenging because Congress has reduced the penalty for failing to buy health insurance to zero.

[Tomconroy]

13. Hard to see that anyone would have standing to challenge

The law on that basis. Who is harmed by not being taxed?

[OrlandoDem2]

12. Now if they uphold Roe what does the Reich Wing do?

Of course, they are still corporatists who want to uphold the rights of big business to exploit people and damage the environment.

[Lemon Lyman]

17. :-(

Keep chipping away at it - law by law, state by state.

[spanone]

14. K&R

[Tomconroy]

18. I checked out the Voldemort site.

The FR people had surprisingly little to say about the decision. I guess the battle is over. We won.

[world wide wally]

19. It's like reading a Science Fiction novel in which the people (MGAts) are furious that the poor

insurance companies are no longer able to steal from hard working people, so they rebel.