Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi and Georgia Attorney General Sam Olens took the stage on the second night of the Republican convention in Tampa Wednesday to tell the tale of the conservative effort against President Obama’s health care law at the Supreme Court. Both were part of a group of attorneys general who sued over the law.
“The president can’t bring himself to acknowledge publicly that the only reason his ‘Unaffordable Care Act’ still stands — is because it is a tax,” Bondi said of the court’s decision to uphold the health care law under Congress’s taxing power. “This is what happens when a president has such total disregard for our individual liberty that he knowingly and purposely imposes unwarranted restrictions against the will of the people.”
Olens also said that Chief Justice John Roberts made the wrong decision in voting with the majority to uphold the law, and that the American people must ultimately vote to repeal “Obamacare.”
“Though we fundamentally disagree with his decision, Chief Justice Roberts did observe that it is not the Supreme Court’s ‘job to protect the people from the consequences of their political choices,'” he said.
