Remember back in 2012 when the Supreme Court narrowly upheld the Obamacare mandate with a 5-4 decision but only after Judge Roberts, a Bush appointee, seemingly parted with his conservative counterparts on the bench to effectively, single-handedly preserve perhaps the most destructive piece of legislation in American history (if not, we wrote about it here)? Many people were shocked by Judge Roberts’ decision and subsequently alleged that it was driven more by politics than his interpretation of the Constitution.
Turns out those people were proven right today as a new Podesta email confirms that the Obama administration applied political pressure on Roberts to sway his decision: “it was pretty critical that the President threw the gauntlet down last time on the Court…that was vital to scaring Roberts off.”
While it’s fairly disturbing that the Clinton team would flippantly admit such things, what’s even worse is that they plotted to use Obama’s same strategy of applying political pressure on the Supreme Court in 2015 to overturn “King v Burwell” which also threatened Obamacare’s future.
The email below from Neera Tanden, clearly shows Clinton staffers colluding with the President of the Center for American Progress on a scheme to apply political pressure on the Supreme Court to overturn the challenge.
Subsequently, both Palmieri, Clinton’s Communications Director, and Fallon, Press Secretary, agreed with the strategy.
Of course, the Supreme Court ultimately ruled in favor of the Obama administration with Justice Roberts writing the majority opinion. Meanwhile, the late Justice Scalia wrote the dissenting opinion in which he said the following:
“Words no longer have meaning if an Exchange that is not established by a State is “established by the State.” It is hard to come up with a clearer way to limit tax credits to state Exchanges than to use the words “established by the State.” And it is hard to come up with a reason to include the words “by the State” other than the purpose of limiting credits to state Exchanges.”
In hindsight, aren’t we all so lucky that Justice Roberts sold his soul to uphold such an amazing piece of legislation? For his efforts, we’ve all received the benefits of worse healthcare coverage for twice the price.
Well …. Surprise, surprise, surprise!
Who would have ever guessed something like that would happen (and not be buried so deep it would never be made known).
Vote Hillary, keep the corruption.
After all Trump used some bad language a decade ago and that is inexcusable for an American President
Or don’t vote at all because you find this perfectly acceptable and claim it would make no difference what goes on with the Supreme Court.
This just scratches the surface. They’ve obviously got some dirt on Roberts… probably another fucking pedo-bear or closeted homosexual, which seems to be the puppet type of choice by the PTB.
If Hillary makes the upcoming appointments you can bet they will have all necessary dirt on them to get whatever rulings they want.
You can also bet the Republican elite establishment will go along with them.
“They’ve obviously got some dirt on Roberts…”
My memory may be a little fuzzy on this, so someone please correct me if I have the details wrong.
Roberts and his wife have two adopted children, both of Irish birth but whose adoption was (illegally) funneled through another country (Nicaragua?) to get around Irish restrictions on out-of-country adoptions. “OK, Roberts. You know how you need to vote, otherwise your two children go bye-bye.”
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All the NSA snooping is about getting dirt on politicians and judges so they can be controlled. Rumor is that Roberts’ adoptions of his kids might not have been exactly, um, legal. Any politician who thinks his Disqus handle shields him from having his non PC online comments outed is stupid.
hackers rock