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tacocat  ·  3439 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Supreme Court Rules Obamacare Subsidies Are Legal

    but they acknowledged that "petitioners' arguments about the plain meaning ... are strong."

The fuck they were. The whole case is based on a semantic technicality from a single line in the bill. The fact that some conservative lawyers poring over a law to find a loophole brought their case to the Supreme Court is embarrassing. At least this should get the republicans and activists to find a better rallying cry against Obama than he tried to help sick people not die





kleinbl00  ·  3439 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Dude. Bush v. Gore was embarrassing. This? This is just par for the course.

I find myself constantly surprised that John Roberts isn't as horrific as I expected.

tacocat  ·  3439 days ago  ·  link  ·  

We'll see how not horrific he is if he decides gay people deserve to be treated with dignity by the government. I'm still kinda scared of him because he's going to be around for a while and that was my initial fear when Bush appointed such a young Chief Justice.