On this date, June 25th, 2015, the Supreme Court of these United States deemed in a vote of 6-3 in favor of the country keeping the Affordable Care Act, also known as ObamaCare. The main thrust of the complaint against the law from several states was that they had decided as states to not set up state-level exchanges and as such their citizens would not be eligible for federal subsidies like residents in states with exchanges. The complaint argued that as written, the law made it unfair for people living in non-exchanged states as they were not getting subsidies that other citizens were.
The court disagreed. This 2000-page law that no one read, that was passed without a single Republican vote, that has been illegally changed more than 20 times without votes on these revisions is again protected by an increasingly liberal Supreme Court regardless of what the Constitution says.
Antonin Scalia, the lead dissenter of the court’s opinion stated that the law should now be known as SCOTUSCare since they are the governing body doing the most to protect it. In the majority opinion, it was postulated that the court interpreted that Congress did not mean to right a bad law, that tossing it out now would do more harm than good.
So our Supreme Court—the last bastion of “Constutionality”—determined it better to rule in the best interests of societal good rather than what is legal.
In that vein, could one not argue that selective committing of crimes is better for the overall societal benefit and change, than the laws that make such an act illegal? Take this idiot Roof, for example. Could someone not argue that if, by chance, someone decided to “jack Ruby” him, that his untimely demise was not better for society than making us all go through the ordeal of a protracted trial? What if he was found innocent?
Or is it just that these judges get to decide what is best for me? It makes sense, I guess. Now all three branches of the Government have proven themselves incapable of resisting the lure of over-reach.