ACA subsidies upheld

[Sava]

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/26/us/supreme-court-affordable-care-act-health-subsidies.html

[Imran Siddiqui]

The combination of no tax credits and an ineffective coverage requirement
could well push a State’s individual insurance market into
a death spiral. It is implausible that Congress meant the Act to operate
in this manner. Congress made the guaranteed issue and
community rating requirements applicable in every State in the Nation,
but those requirements only work when combined with the coverage
requirement and tax credits. It thus stands to reason that
Congress meant for those provisions to apply in every State as well.
Pp. 15–19.

- Chief Justice Roberts

It was 6-3, btw, Roberts, Kennedy, Ginsberg, Breyer, Sotomayor and Kagan.

[Sava]

Gotta feel bad for opponents. They can't win any elections. They decry judicial activism, but that was their only hope.

[Sava]

Maybe they can rent a crowd and have some more tea parties. Revolutionary War cosplay is effective. Remind everyone you like(d) it when black people are/were property.

http://boingboing.net/2015/06/23/meet-politicians-rented-rall.html

[giblets]

Conservative justices only care about intent if something was written in the 18th century

[Imran Siddiqui]

Soo... Chief Justice Roberts is a liberal?

[DinoDoc]

- Chief Justice Roberts

It was 6-3, btw, Roberts, Kennedy, Ginsberg, Breyer, Sotomayor and Kagan.

Statutory design and purpose matter only to the extent they help clarify an otherwise ambiguous provision. Could anyone maintain with a straight face that §36B is unclear? To mention just the highlights, the Court’s interpretation clashes with a statutory definition, renders words inoperative in at least seven separate provisions of the Act, overlooks the contrast between provisions that say “Exchange” and those that say “Exchange established by the State,” gives the same phrase one meaning for purposes of tax credits but an entirely different meaning for other purposes, and (let us not forget) contradicts the ordinary meaning of the words Congress used. On the other side of the ledger, the Court has come up with nothing more than a general provision that turns out to be controlled by a specific one, a handful of clauses that are consistent with either understanding of establishment by the State, and a resemblance between the tax-credit provision and the rest of the Tax Code. If that is all it takes to make something ambiguous, everything is ambiguous.

- Justice Scalia

[Sava]

Soo... Chief Justice Roberts is a liberal?

Nah, he just seems to respect the government and nation he is a part of.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Oh, it was a response to giblets.

[Sava]

Oh,

[Sava]

GOP butthurt is palpable

[Imran Siddiqui]

They'll be even more butthurt by the gay marriage ruling... because teh gheys will buttrape them with there agenda, obviously.

[Sava]

[self biased]

They'll be even more butthurt by the gay marriage ruling... because teh gheys will buttrape them with their agenda, obviously.

I've always wondered about the phrase "homosexual agenda." I imagine it starts with "New Drapes" and escalates to "Sodomize Mediocrity" in the end.

[Sava]

i'll homo your agenda