Chief Justice J Roberts plain old does not believe it is his job to
OVERRULE the will of the majority as expressed in the elections of 08
and 12 and brought into reality in Obamacare.
He literally said as much in the first Obamacare decision labeling the mandate, a tax.
Whether
or not he is concerned for his domain (SCOTUS) and it’s reputation he
has attempted to align the result of passed law with the will of a
majority of (voting) citizens. Majority rule this way is a mob. A nicer
mob, but a mob all the same.
The opposite and CORRECT style of
rulings of SCOTUS should IMHO always be, ‘may the heavens fall but let
justice be done’ and what is justice?
1789 as amended.
If
justice discomfits the people, WE WILL FIGURE OUT THE WAY AROUND and or
through, just as we did in 1954. If governing ourselves was easy,
trained dogs would have a nation.
Prospective justices should
always be held to a result of questioning during confirmation as to
their rulings having FIDELITY to the constitution as opposed to their
personal and or PREVAILING political opinions and conscience of the day.
Prospective
justices who admit during Congressional questioning to feeling a moral
imperative to the creation of Constitutional changes according to their
personal conscience as opposed to strict interpretation of the written
Constitution should be rejected, and those who LIE about this, or change
their mind in order to get on SCOTUS and effect change, or just CHANGE,
should feel the weight of redress by Constitutional methods.
Whatever this process requires should be undertaken right up to amending the founding document. This is SERIOUS business.
In
this case, while Roberts may have found a tortuous path to a tax in the
1st Obamacare decision, this latest, is a complete distortion of BOTH
the purposeful wording of the law (meant to blackmail states into
exchanges and medicaid expansion), and the IDEA OF SCOTUS DOING JUSTICE
by the word of the law, since the majority opinion among other
weaknesses in the ruling, made reference to the lack of congressional
readiness in the event they ruled exchanges by the federal govt,
ILLEGAL. SCOTUS decided what was ‘really intended’ (to compel everyone)
as opposed to the real word of the law (which substituted political
coercion for frank compulsion and ultimately FORCE).
Maybe our
daily state would have been different with a different KIND of
president. For instance, if it had been Harold Ford. Or maybe this is a
stage of the republic in which the people themselves must, in learning
how to govern themselves, amid all the news sources, THEMSELVES
POLITICIZED, must lead those concerned with the preeminence of
reelection (self interest, and their position afterwards …Eric Cantor
anyone?) as opposed to the national interest, and the people‘s well
being.
Every single aspect of the executive, legislature and now SCOTUS in this USA is completely politicized, and thus CORRUPTED.
And
THAT is why we, nearly ALL americans have lost confidence in every
institution which supposedly represents us, and now instead represents
those who are supposed to represent our will.
I am beginning to fear we are like a cube of sugar in the bottom of the clear glass of tea.
Our shape is completely distinct, but with a good solid rap, just a bunch of individual crystals laying at the bottom.
IOW: a rubber stamp for mob rule. Wonder how that will work out.
ReplyDeleteWhat about the outcomes of the elections of 2010 and 2014? 2010 was a direct result of popular hostility to the ACA. I guess that didn't away Roberts.
ReplyDeleteI would guess he would say, if the voters were serious Ocare would be repealed by veto proof majority, just as dems had in 09.
ReplyDeleteIt's amazing, that when you think things are so terrible, and then there's a new way, a new bend which makes it all worse and insitutions seemingly unravel.