SCOTUS puts your health care on trial
 

Oral arguments today. Kennedy and the 4 Dem appointed justices all sounding skeptical of the petitioners.

http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2015/0...alth-law-case/

If a conservative majority holds on the court this could destroy private health insurance companies in the United States and 9 million people would almost certainly lose coverage right away.

I don't understand why SCOTUS would agree to even hear this case. It's frivolous and there's serious issues of standing for the petitioners. It's obvious that conservatives don't care about consistency from the bench, but if the court were to overturn the subsidies portion of the law over a 4 word typo there are countless other laws that would then be subject to review by the courts. Just about every large piece of legislation that goes through congress has minor grammatical mistakes that could read like this.

is there any precedent to this? striking a law because of a 'glitch'?

It's not ambiguous and the plaintiffs have never had any fucking idea what the case is about and might not even have standing

No there isn't. Some of the justices who granted cert may very well have wanted to shut this fucking litigator up once and for all.

Eh. Maybe.

But this is obviously more high profile. And he could have just found other plaintiffs in a different circuit.

Scalia's "surely congress wouldn't sit idly by" statement makes it seem like he's going to interpret the statute in a way he's never said statutes should be interpreted. Because he's an intellectually dishonest shit masquerading as a scholar. I hate him so much.

And also he can't possibly believe this congress could act to fix anything

Ugggh

i mean if the law ddnt allow for federal exchanges i dont think theyd.. yknow.. set up federal exchanges. just seems asinine for this to be in contention over four words

itd be pretty lulzy if they rule in the plaintiffs favor. in a sad way of course

yeah but this suit in particular is just nitpicking and politicizing

No. This is a fantasy that everyone has for some reason bought into.

He's a good writer. Beyond that his mind is nothing special at all.

No that was the 2012 case.

This is solely a matter of statutory interpretation.

What examples of his brilliance are you thinking of

Scalia is at best really dumb and at worst being intellectually dishonest because of his biases

I'm puzzled this is reviewed as well, but only because Roberts must of got the equivalent of a Horses head in his bed the night before the SC green lighted it in 2012. .

This then, is really a push-back to that. So it is interesting.

I mean

I can grant he has a certain brand of intelligence. You can't be dumb and write that well.

I dunno. I just hate him.

i havent looked forward to anyone dropping dead this much since strom thurmond

depends on if you think reptillian is special

i dunno how any of this makes up for being evil. congrats hes diabolical i guess?

fuck scalia

He interprets the law how he wants to interpret it, just like every other judge. He's smart, but he has a different point of view - one that specifically hurts certain people. He doesn't care about those people. That's what makes him an asshole.

shhh justice thomas is napping

i mean goebbles was a high functioning near genius but i fail to see the value in pointing it out