The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to take up the legal challenge to the Obamacare subsidies offered on HealthCare.gov, according to SCOTUSblog.
The Court said Friday that it will hear King v. Burwell, which argues that Obamacare subsidies should not be available on the federal health insurance exchange under the law’s language. A federal appeals court ruled against the plaintiffs in July, and they appealed to the Supreme Court.
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Oooohhhhh, fuck. The assholes waited to see who won the midterms. They wanted to make sure no legislative fix is possible when they regretfully rule that legislative history is of no account and that instead their job is to discern the intent of Congress solely by running the plain language of the statute through their special ODS decoder rings.
And John Roberts is just the guy to write that of decision. Portraying raw, extreme, ideologically driven judicial activism as mere interpretation is what he does.
We’re screwed. The opinion is already in the bag. 5-4. Roberts gets back on board with his BFF’s, Obamacare gets taken down without any possibility of a legislative fix and Democrats get blamed for the resulting mess.
Unless, of course, they have the sense to make Roberts’ judicial activism a campaign issue in 2016 and blame Republicans for the resulting mess.
Well this is excellent for me. I love watching SCOTUS do legal parkour!
OMG, one of the conservative 5 needs to die quick.
And yes, that’s a prelude to another “FUCK YOU KENNEDY.”
The headline may as well read “SCOTUS agrees to strike down ACA…”
Should be interesting they agreed on one part of the ACA now they may disagree on another part ? Dog chasing tail maybe ?