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SCOTUS: ObamaCare Decision

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by YankeeFan, Jun 20, 2012.

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  1. ColdCat

    ColdCat Well-Known Member

    my prediction is I'll have a few friends post on facebook that they liked the ruling, a few post that it's the wrong choice by SCOTUS, some will be a little more hysterical than others, and the day after the ruling I still won't be able to make a doctors appointment in my hometown since I still won't be covered.
     
  2. Brooklyn Bridge

    Brooklyn Bridge Well-Known Member

    WOW. I think that is a bold prediction. If anything I agree with the previous sentiment that the mandate will get tossed and everything else will get to stay. Mixed bag. Something for everyone.
     
  3. Dick Whitman

    Dick Whitman Well-Known Member

    I don't think it's as bold as some might think. I think the bolder prediction is that the Supreme Court would overturn a major piece of legislation. It has hardly ever done so.
     
  4. ucacm

    ucacm Active Member

    Upheld. SCOTUS decides it just doesn't want to be involved in invalidating such a major piece of legislation. Theme of majority opinion is telling people they are free to elect officials that will overturn it.
     
  5. schiezainc

    schiezainc Well-Known Member

    Individual mandate is gone. The rest stays.

    5-2 vote.
     
  6. Armchair_QB

    Armchair_QB Well-Known Member

  7. Starman

    Starman Well-Known Member

    Has Thomas ever been the lone dissenter on anything?

    The whole thing is chucked, 5-4.
     
  8. Bubbler

    Bubbler Well-Known Member

    Mandate out, rest in.
     
  9. RickStain

    RickStain Well-Known Member

    "Uphold the rest but take out the mandate" is one of those "Everything's complicated so let's just split the difference" ideas that seems casually appealing, but it doesn't seem remotely workable to me in a practical sense.
     
  10. schiezainc

    schiezainc Well-Known Member

    Sorry, meant 5-4. Typing is hard.
     
  11. RickStain

    RickStain Well-Known Member

    Although let me note, I don't share Dick's sheer confidence. I'm simply saying that if I have to be pinned down to a single scenario that I think is more likely than any other, it's that it will be upheld. I wouldn't be shocked at all to see 5-4 overturning it.
     
  12. printit

    printit Member

    5-4 to overturn. Just not constitutional. If the power to regulate interstate commerce means the power to regulate inactivity then it means literally EVERYTHING and, thus, means nothing. 5-4, it's gone.

    And the idea that the Court doesn't strike down "major" legislation (whatever that even means) is just not historically accurate.
     
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