SCOTUS Strikes Down ObamaCare Individual Mandate

[Jake46184]

Damn! Roberts has sold out the American people and sided with the libs!!! The individual mandate SURVIVES but as a tax. The m..... f..... is going to get his way. This is a HUGE POLITICAL VICTORY for BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA. This likely gives Obama the WH in November.

A sad day for America.

 

[Jake46184]

Mass Confusion!!!! Conflicting reporting! Was it struck down or not!!!

 

[K_W]

I'm hearing upheld.

 

[1946]

NBC is saying it has upheld the health bill under the taxing authority at this moment.

 

[Jake46184]

Mandate upheld as a tax????????????? Report now is that Roberts has sided with the lib wing of the court

 

[Kirk Freeman]

Ummm, no.

I want a bill mandating the purchase of a gun and a Bible. Right now.

 

[VikingWarlord]

According to Google News, the decision hasn't been released yet, but should be within the hour.

Just as I posted this, it updated.

Yes, it was upheld as a tax. That's some dangerous territory.

 

[1946]

Voting was 5 to 4.....liberal side versus conservative.

 

[Denny347]

Hmmm, they are reporting that it was upheld in it entirety. Chief Justice Roberts (GW Bush appointee) saved the act.

 

[Jake46184]

Horrible reporting by Fox News. Completely incompetent.

 

[hooky]

Individual Mandate stands as a tax. Roberts sides with Ginsberg. WTF? Now the .gov can force me to enter into a contract. Where does it stop?

 

[Kirk Freeman]

It doesn't stop, that's the problem.

 

[Jake46184]

This is so much bigger than just the ruling on Obamacare. The decision today by Roberts gives Barack Hussein the WH in November. We have witnessed the last nail in America's coffin this morning. We're done.

 

[mrjarrell]

SCOTUS Blog is reporting that it is all upheld.

The bottom line: the entire ACA is upheld, with the exception that the federal government's power to terminate states' Medicaid funds is narrowly read.

About what I was figuring would happen, given past court decisions.

http://www.scotusblog.com/cover-it-live/

 

[CarmelHP]

Damn! Roberts has sold out the American people and sided with the libs!!! The individual mandate SURVIVES but as a tax. The m..... f..... is going to get his way. This is a HUGE POLITICAL VICTORY for BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA. This likely gives Obama the WH in November.

A sad day for America.

I would imagine Roberts sided with the majority in this instance so he could either write the decision or decide who did. Obama will see a backlash from this.

 

[mrjarrell]

So the mandate is constitutional. Chief Justice Roberts joins the left of the Court.

Roberts sided with the left.

 

[Blackhawk2001]

I expect this is going to super-charge the TEA Party for the fall elections. I recall listening to some speculation that if this happened, Chief Justice Roberts (who is being excoriated even as I write this) would side with the majority so he could write the opinion. Upholding the individual mandate as a power of Congress to tax should serve as a lesson to all of us that we need to severely limit Congress' power to tax us.

 

[Denny347]

Once again you cannot count on the USSC to vote on party lines.

 

[Bunnykid68]

I would imagine Roberts sided with the majority in this instance so he could either write the decision or decide who did. Obama will see a backlash from this.

He was the tie breaking vote. I agree, O will see a backlash from this because most people in the country did not want this.

 

[mrjarrell]

The money quote from the section on the mandate: Our precedent demonstrates that Congress had the power to impose the exaction in Section 5000A under the taxing power, and that Section 5000A need not be read to do more than impose a tax. This is sufficient to sustain it.