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Title: Dems Warn Of ‘Grave Damage’ To SCOTUS If ‘Obamacare’ Is Struck Down
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Published: Mar 29, 2012
Author: SAHIL KAPUR
Post Date: 2012-03-29 17:03:38 by Mad Dog
Keywords: libTURD LIARS, THUGS, HYPOCRITES
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A handful of Senate Democrats sought to assure doubtful liberals that the Supreme Court justices aren’t ready to strike down their crowning achievement, standing before cameras and mics Wednesday in front of the court. One warned that doing so would ruin the court’s credibility.
“This court would not only have to stretch, it would have to abandon and completely overrule a lot of modern precedent, which would do grave damage to this court, in its credibility and power,” said Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D), a former attorney general of Connecticut. “The court commands no armies, it has no money; it depends for its power on its credibility. The only reason people obey it is because it has that credibility. And the court risks grave damage if it strikes down a statute of this magnitude and importance, and stretches so dramatically and drastically to do it.”
Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) said the law has been thoroughly vetted.
“As a senior member of the Finance Committee,” he said, “I can tell you that we had one of the most rigorous and transparent legislative processes that I have witnessed in almost 3 decades here in the Congress. We worked with some of the brightest, most thoughtful and experienced constitutional lawyers in order to make sure that the law was constitutional.”
Kerry said the assumptions that tough questions from the justices will amount to striking down some or all of the Affordable Care Act are a fallacy — he predicted, as the final oral arguments were transpiring inside, that it would be upheld.
“Now I am glad — as I think any of us who’ve practiced law are — to see the intense questions from the justices. They’re engaged, and they are thoughtfully working through these issues,” Kerry said. “But questions are a legitimate way of probing the basis of their own thinking. They are not an indication of a judgment made, or a vote ready to be cast. They’re working through this process as they ought to, mindful of the fact that 30 courts below them have already made a judgment upholding it.”
Blumenthal and Kerry — who were joined by Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR) — called the press conference one day after liberals and other court watchers expressed serious doubts that the justices would uphold the Affordable Care Act’s requirement to purchase insurance, a central pillar of the law. The firestorm was ignited by legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin, who called Tuesday’s arguments a “train wreck” for the White House and predicted that “Obamacare” would be struck down.
Pushing back, Blumenthal said that there’s a “heavy burden” on the challengers.
“Everybody learns in the first year of law school that the law that’s challenged is presumed to be constitutional,” Blumenthal said. “That is a heavy burden for anyone challenging the constitutionality of a law to overcome. When in doubt, uphold the law. There is a lot of room for doubt here, and there is a lot of clear precedent that requires this court to uphold this law.”
The Democrats’ level of confidence has diminished since the days when they dismissed a constitutional challenge to the Affordable Care Act as frivolous. Indeed, the tough questioning from swing Justices John Roberts and Anthony Kennedy about the limits of federal power at least rattled liberals enough to require the nerve-soothing press conference. But Democrats are seeking to quell liberal fears that the game is already over.
Experts say it’s too difficult to predict how the court will rule.
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Honestly, these people are INSANE.
They don't even live in the same universe as objective, factual, TRUTH lives in.
Spoiled, stupid and ignorant, brain dead phuckwads, libTURD fools, tools, and idiots, are the real sickness; the messiah "king" obammy and his regime are only the symptoms.
#2. To: Mad Dog (#0)
"We (government) need to do a lot less, a lot sooner" ~Ron Paul
Obama's watch stopped on 24 May 2008, but he's been too busy smoking crack to notice.
#3. To: hondo68 (#2) (Edited)
Experts say it’s too difficult to predict how the court will rule.
It has been many decades since I wasted any time wondering about how SCOTUS will rule.
I just look at what they actually spew out.
Of course the overall trend has been that we are slouching towards Gomorrah.
Spoiled, stupid and ignorant, brain dead phuckwads, libTURD fools, tools, and idiots, are the real sickness; the messiah "king" obammy and his regime are only the symptoms.
#4. To: Mad Dog (#0)
“As a senior member of the Finance Committee,” he said, “I can tell you that we had one of the most rigorous and transparent legislative processes that I have witnessed in almost 3 decades here in the Congress.
You Dems were so busy locking yourself in a room no one could enter, we didn't notice how open you all were.
“Now I am glad — as I think any of us who’ve practiced law are — to see the intense questions from the justices."
But didn't you mostly just practice how to marry rich women? Isn't that how you became the richest guy in Congress?
#5. To: hondo68 (#2)
Too bad the Dems didn't realize this on December 14, 2000....;}
A little late now.
#6. To: TooConservative (#4)
“As a senior member of the Finance Committee,” he said, “I can tell you that we had one of the most rigorous and transparent legislative processes that I have witnessed in almost 3 decades here in the Congress.“Now I am glad — as I think any of us who’ve practiced law are — to see the intense questions from the justices."
"HYPOCRISY thy name is libTURD."
Spoiled, stupid and ignorant, brain dead phuckwads, libTURD fools, tools, and idiots, are the real sickness; the messiah "king" obammy and his regime are only the symptoms.
#7. To: mcgowanjm (#5)
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LOL!
It's ALWAYS de ebil BOOSH'S fault eh TOOL?
LOL!
Spoiled, stupid and ignorant, brain dead phuckwads, libTURD fools, tools, and idiots, are the real sickness; the messiah "king" obammy and his regime are only the symptoms.
#8. To: TooConservative (#4)
But didn't you mostly just practice how to marry rich women? Isn't that how you became the richest guy in Congress?
Sounds like you are talking about McCain.
Almost every country in the Middle East is awash in oil, and we have to side with the one that has nothing but joos. Goddamn, that was good thinkin'. Esso posted on 2012-01-13 7:37:56 ET
#9. To: mininggold (#8)
Nah. Lurch got most of Theresa's wealth transferred directly into his name.
The Stain actually doesn't have that many assets. They're all held by his wife.
#10. To: TooConservative (#9)
The Stain actually doesn't have that many assets. They're all held by his wife.
She's one smart woman. He was her daddy's personal political envoy though.
Almost every country in the Middle East is awash in oil, and we have to side with the one that has nothing but joos. Goddamn, that was good thinkin'. Esso posted on 2012-01-13 7:37:56 ET
#11. To: mininggold (#10)
chickensh!t from a chickensh!t libTURD whore
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I bet that you don't keep any mirrors around your house hag.
I bet you are as fugly on the outside as you are on the inside.
Orders of magnitude worse than Dorian Grey EVER was, eh hag?
Why are you such a WHORE for TYRANNY as long as it's called libTURDISM?
WHORE?
Spoiled, stupid and ignorant, brain dead phuckwads, libTURD fools, tools, and idiots, are the real sickness; the messiah "king" obammy and his regime are only the symptoms.
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