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CAPTION THIS: Biden sworn in at #Inaugural2013 while Obama seemingly smirks

Posted by: ST on January 21, 2013 at 7:32 pm » 7 Comments

Heh. Via the Sacramento Bee: The look on Obama’s face as he looks at Biden is intriguing. Gotta wonder what he’s thinking there. And for extra laughs from the VP on a day where conservatives weren’t laughing much at all, there is this: “I’m proud to be president of the United States, but I am [...]

 

Liberal reax to Hobby Lobby defiance shows disturbing “Govt is God” mindset

Posted by: ST on December 29, 2012 at 2:42 pm » 37 Comments

Via Todd Starnes: The owners of Hobby Lobby face $1.3 million in daily fines after they decided to obey God rather than the federal government – refusing to comply with Obamacare’s contraception mandate. The act of defiance came one day after Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor denied Hobby Lobby’s emergency request to block enforcement of [...]

 

So, is the Obama Administration admitting ObamaCare/ObamaTax is unconstitutional?

Posted by: Phineas on July 5, 2012 at 2:56 pm » 5 Comments

**Posted by Phineas Via the Washington Examiner’s Byron York: In an interview on CNN Thursday morning, Obama campaign spokesman Ben LaBolt said that President Obama disagrees with the Supreme Court’s ruling that the individual mandate in Obamacare is a tax. Anchor Soledad O’Brien asked LaBolt: “His spokesman…said it’s a penalty. The Supreme Court has said [...]

 

#ObamaCare — Sources: the Chief Justice changed his mind

Posted by: Phineas on July 1, 2012 at 4:55 pm » 5 Comments

**Posted by Phineas There had been speculation in the wake of last week’s surprising Supreme Court ruling in Sebelius (the ObamaCare case) that the joint, scathing dissent had originally been the majority opinion, but that Chief Justice Roberts then changed his mind and upheld the statute by effectively rewriting it as a tax. Now, apparently, we have [...]

 

#RobertsCare: Proponents of statism score a victory, but the fight is by no means over

Posted by: ST on June 29, 2012 at 9:39 am » 5 Comments

George Mason University law professor Ilya Somin writes today at the SCOTUSblog about yesterday’s stunning decision by the SCOTUS to uphold the ACA, the good, the bad, the ugly – and what it means for the future: Overall, the Chief Justice endorsed the central arguments of the plaintiffs, as has a majority of the Court. [...]

 

#ObamaCare : The fight has only just started

Posted by: Phineas on June 28, 2012 at 1:42 pm » 10 Comments

**Posted by Phineas Okay, fine. The Supreme Court has ruled (1) ObamaCare to be constitutional, even if it had to do so in a bizarre manner by declaring the mandate a tax and thus within Congress’ taxation powers, even though the government never made that argument and President Obama swore up and down it wasn’t [...]

 

#RobertsCare – the new term for #ObamaCare

Posted by: ST on June 28, 2012 at 10:41 am » 11 Comments

Great term by @AlexMarlow. Chief Justice Roberts saves the day … for the Obama administration. Read more here. And do I have confidence that Romney will repeal this monstrosity if he becomes President. No. I do not. #Numb

 

#ObamaCare ruling: The Final Countdown

Posted by: ST on June 28, 2012 at 8:17 am » 3 Comments

Are you ready, peeps? The moment we’ve been waiting for: 10 a.m. ET today. Fox News reports on the various scenarios that could play out today at the SCOTUS: The Supreme Court could uphold the entire law or could strike down the entire law. In between those two extremes, the court could also rule that [...]

 

#ObamaCare ruling to come down today from #SCOTUS? UPDATED: Thursday is the day?

Posted by: ST on June 25, 2012 at 9:32 am » 1 Comment

Fox News reports that both sides are bracing, and are preparing responses in advance of the ruling: Republicans and Democrats are girding for a politically explosive week as the Supreme Court prepares to rule as early as Monday on the federal health care overhaul. The ruling, as campaign advisers are well aware, has the potential [...]

 

QOTD: Obama not understood on #SCOTUS because he is a “constitutional law professor”

Posted by: ST on April 5, 2012 at 6:17 pm » 30 Comments

Literally laughing out loud.  From today’s WH press briefing with Jay Carney: Henry: The president is a former constitutional law professor. One of his professors is Laurence Tribe. He now says, in his words, the president “obviously misspoke earlier this week”, quote “he didn’t say what he meant and having said that in order to [...]