Board 8 > VICTORY: Health care mandate struck down by the Appeals Court

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http://ca.news.yahoo.com/appeals-court-rules-against-obama-healthcare-law-171829777.html

For anyone who knows anything about law, this is a MUCH bigger deal than a federal judge simply deeming it unconstitutional.

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good. why anyone would want to pay for health insurance is beyond me...

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The majority "has ignored the undeniable fact that Congress' commerce power has grown exponentially over the past two centuries and is now generally accepted as having afforded Congress the authority to create rules regulating large areas of our national economy," Marcus wrote.

**** this judge.

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Blatant disregard for the Constitution from that dissenting judge.

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Can't Obama change the Constitution? He's the president, after all!

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Only with 3/4ths agreement of the states

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What if he just wrote on it with a pen and pretended it was there the whole time?

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He could try to pull a George W. and declare himself sovereign

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This sentence made me laugh:
"expand insurance coverage to the more than 30 million Americans who are without it"

Yes by making it illegal not to have it you reduce the number of people who have it.

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about damn time

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This is good. One step closer to a public option. Granted, there are still plenty of steps left, but still. One step closer.

Hey Sephy you should PM me your name/relevant activities so I can find out if we ever intersected at school.

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lmfao at the people getting mad at the dissenting judge. From a historical perspective, he's spot on: that's been the precedent for decades. "That's not what the Constitution says!" is not a good response, because frankly, no one cares about how you interpret that document. The SC, an actually important interpretive body, has argued the Constitution said otherwise time and time again.

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Courts interpret the Constitution, they don't pretend it doesn't exist. I mean, I get what the judge is saying, but he worded it in such a way to make it look like he favored just ignoring the text of the Consitution. And the SC has recognized limits on the Commerce Clause powers many times, as the majority of this appeals court has done here.

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Courts interpret the Constitution, they don't pretend it doesn't exist. I mean, I get what the judge is saying, but he worded it in such a way to make it look like he favored just ignoring the text of the Consitution. And the SC has recognized limits on the Commerce Clause powers many times, as the majority of this appeals court has done here.

I'd like to hear a case that limits the powers of the CC in a way relevant to this particular decision.

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Well, for starters, the mandate is unprecedented.

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For starters, Congress is trying to eliminate a lack of commerce here, not regulating existent commerce. The majority opinion gives a bunch of notable cases related to the Commerce Clause.

http://www.uscourts.gov/uscourts/courts/ca11/201111021.pdf

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Neat link, thanks.

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SubDeity posted...
Hey Sephy you should PM me your name/relevant activities so I can find out if we ever intersected at school.

haha sorry, I didn't even know I had one from you....


I like to keep my identity hidden, given the last month of topics I posted here. But I can tell you that if you frequented AXA or enjoyed eating at the Hop regularly then we may have crossed paths!

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