Showing posts with label SCOTUS. Show all posts
Showing posts with label SCOTUS. Show all posts

Saturday, November 10, 2012

What are we really voting for?

UPDATE: The Republican party convention that nominated "I, Trump, to the Presidency of US passed without a a single mention of the stalled nomination by President Obama of Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court. We are now more than halfway through the Democratic convention of Hillary Clinton and still no acknowledgement of that forsaken nominee.

The Republican's stunning display of hubris and abdication of their responsibility to even hold hearings on the nomination forced The Supreme Court to  limp through its' session with 8 justices.

Garland's fate is now sealed.  Despite being a highly respected jurist and a centrist, Garland will be consigned to being a footnote in history.

If the Trumped Up Republicans win this election and retain control of the Senate, they will attempt to impose on us someone aligned with their core belief in their absolute right to maintain private arsenals, interfere with women's most intimate private decisions and everything else that conforms to their corrupt ideology.

This is an insult to democratic principles. It is time to consign these profiteers in human misery to the trash can of history themselves - each and every last one of them. July 28, 2016
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UPDATE: On the morning following the election, politicians did what they always do. The victors reached for the sweet fruit of victory only to find it spoiled by the poisoned venom of the losers intent on avenging their repudiation. November 10, 2012

Thursday, June 28, 2012

SCOTUS upholds health care Law; POTUS wins again!



Bingo! Individual Health Care Mandates are upheld by 

the Supreme Court and this Lawyer's Faith in the Federal Judiciary is (somewhat) restored!


And in the "Them That's Got" category, Mitch McConnell and Eric Cantor prove they can't count by immediately announcing they will schedule a Congressional vote to repeal what has been dubbed Obama Care (embrace it, Barry!)* 
Meanwhile, Mittsy vows to repeal when elected (insert guffaw here) and then sends Jeeves to the market to buy all the Earl Grey he can afford for the next tea party.

The full text of the opinion can be found in the link below:

http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/msnbc/Sections/NEWS/scotus_opinion_on_ACA_from_msnbc.com.pdf

6/28/12

* This became the first in a series of sixty (60!) unsuccessful Republican votes to repeal during the Obama administration. These same folks, (with the exception of the unlamented Cantor, supported a health care bill that earned the approval of 17% of the public proving that some people can't take a pulse. Or find one.    3/20/17