That seems, though, like a slam-dunk…

“It’s a tax,” John Roberts explained.

Repeal and [Do Not] Replace ™

Tim_CA on July 28, 2012 at 11:51 AM

FIFY

Why are you blaming this on Roberts?

Count to 10

Because he IS to blame. It’s not complicated.

The logic behind Roberts rumored position is religious organizations can always opt out by shutting down the organizations which are found non compliant and just practice their faith behinds the four walls of a church in private where no one can see or be bothered by them.
Skwor on July 28, 2012 at 2:29 PM

Roberts is wrong and he knows it. He’s decided to act against constitutional principle and legislate relativism.

It is not up to him to decide Catholic Dogma,Tradition or Doctrine.

For Catholics charity (including hospitals) and schooling are inseparable to the faith and this has been the case since Apostolic times and grew with the first monasteries established by Saint Athanasius in Europe (344 AD)

The logic behind Roberts rumored position is religious organizations can always opt out by shutting down the organizations which are found non compliant and just practice their faith behinds the four walls of a church in private where no one can see or be bothered by them.

In the end it was purported that Roberts believes if the public wants any true justice on this issue they need to vote and get congress to manage it because it is not the courts responsibility to resolve conflicts between the public and issues of constitutionality.

And the bad news – this will likely be appealed all the way to SCOTUS, where traitor, fool, OBOZO tool and socialist media puppet Roberts will have another chance to shaft the Constitution and all Americans.

Few Things Considered on July 28, 2012 at 12:53 PM

HA is abominable on a smartphone.

Yep, every time something regarding ObamaTax / ObamaCare / Socialized Medicine comes up, it just rekindles my anger toward Benedict Roberts. This should have been dead and buried a month ago, instead the distinguished jurist managed to betray the Constitution and the citizens of this country.

When history is written, one of the key contributors to the breakup of the United States of America into several entities, one of which will remain a Constitutional Republic, will be John Roberts’s abrogation of his duty to uphold and defend the Constitution by granting the federal government unlimited power through its taxing authority.

AZfederalist on July 28, 2012 at 1:24 PM

Why are you blaming this on Roberts? There were four other judges that voted for worse. Frankly, he stayed within the power that he was supposed to exert. Striking down the law on the basis of whether or not it was a tax would not have been upholding the Constitution.
This law needs to be repealed, not struck down. Don’t whine that you didn’t get a deus ex machina, vote people into office that will change it properly.

When history is written, one of the key contributors to the breakup of the United States of America into several entities, one of which will remain a Constitutional Republic, will be John Roberts’s abrogation of his duty to uphold and defend the Constitution by granting the federal government unlimited power through its taxing authority.

These cases are all religious liberty cases, and the Obama administration will lose these big time. Too bad the ultimate resolution is one, two, or three years from now.

Even if the religious organizations are not in a position to seek an injunction in their cases, unlike the Obamacare cases, I can’t see them losing at any level (federal district courts, federal courts of appeal, and SCOTUS).

Thanks for nothing, Justice Roberts. You may have convinced yourself that you rose above politics for some noble reason, but all you did is further the diminishing of our foremost founding document.

Didn’t you watch the Olympic opening ceremonies? Socialized medicine is glorious, and if you disagree, you hate children.

Romney 2012.

Philly on July 28, 2012 at 11:43 AM

I stopped watching after I saw that bit about the NHS. It was disgusting! Danny Boyle should be ashamed of himself for politicizing the Olympics like that. As well as Matt Loser and Merideath Viera for putting their two cents worth(that’s all that they are worth) in about it. They won’t be, of course, but they are libs after all.

Any practical Politician would have already done so, but this guy is an entirely new species. He is a dictator coming out of his cocoon of benevolence. It’s getting scary to watch.

Flora Duh on July 28, 2012 at 12:02 PM

Ramirez has a cartoon on the issue you brought up. Great as usual!

http://news.investors.com/editorialcartoons/cartoon.aspx?id=62018
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That doesn’t hinder their exercise of religion at all… That’s just the price of living in a civilized society and if those taxes are punitive well that’s just too bad isn’t it?

/s just in case my dripping sardonic sarcasm isn’t that dripping but that IS our current legal state.

FUBO and FUR

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/07/27/How-States-Can-Reject-and-Replace-Obamacare?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
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