Was there collusion and intimidation between Obama and the Supreme Court regarding the ObamaCare ruling?
Most will deem those who raise the question to be conspiracy theorists. But we are already called conspiracy theorists for stating Obama’s birth certificate is a fraud. Even Darrell Issa has been lumped into the crazy, knuckle-dragging category for suggesting that Operation Fast and Furious was not a “botched” gunwalking program, but was specifically put in place to demonize U.S. gun dealers and ramp up gun laws. Of course, the fact that Issa has an email stating this doesn’t seem to put a dent in the accusations.
I think the suspicion of a Supreme Court collusion and intimidation is a valid question, given that most of the public and the mainstream media were sure the ObamaCare mandate would be struck down. Given that Obama initially came out swinging with his ludicrous statements about the possibility of the Supreme Court striking down ObamaCare as an “unprecedented, extraordinary step of overturning a law that was passed by a strong majority of a democratically elected Congress.” This was false on two fronts: 1. This is what the Supreme Court does on a regular basis. 2. ObamaCare squeaked by with a handful of votes, not a “strong majority.”
Obama went further calling the Supreme Court “unelected,” openly mocking the Framers’ wisdom in designing our government.
But as suddenly as Obama began attacking the Supreme Court, he as suddenly dropped the subject and remained quiet. All indications were that he was going to begin a class warfare/racist narrative, calling the conservatives on the Supreme Court a bunch of rich white guys, saving the Uncle Tom designation for Clarence Thomas, which had been rolled out ad nauseam before.
But strangely he remained quiet.
When we learned that Roberts had not only sided with the liberal members on the Court, but also wrote the opinion, for most conservatives it was a punch in the stomach. But when we found out how he sided with the liberals, it was like a slap in the face. The mandate was a tax and could not be construed under the Commerce Clause. One could not be mandated to buy broccoli simply because someone had determined individuals who didn’t eat broccoli were unhealthy, and therefore drove up health costs and therefore affected commerce. But per Roberts one could be taxed arbitrarily if the government deemed it beneficial. Who was Roberts to judge the wisdom of the government? he opined in his opinion: “Because the Constitution permits such a tax, it is not our role to forbid it, or to pass upon its wisdom or fairness” (44). Well, actually he is there to determine the wisdom, specifically the constitutionality, of our government.
What Roberts didn’t take into account, which the dissenting opinion did, was the fact that the mandate was not passed in Congress, was not signed into law, as a tax. In deciding a court case, even before the Supreme Court, one takes into account witness statements, whereby Obama and a huge gaggle of Democrats had said ad nauseam that the mandate—specifically the penalty for not following the mandate—was not a tax. We, in effect, had Obama on the witness stand, on video, stating it was not a tax, because no one would have voted for it if that word would have been used. So that Scalia, Thomas, Alito, and Kennedy, writing in the dissenting opinion, stated: “[T]o say that the Individual Mandate merely imposes a tax is not to interpret the statute but to rewrite it (24).”
In simpler terms: words matter.
But as we know, words don’t matter for Obama. That is, he tends to lie repeatedly. We know there are at least forty lies in his memoir Dreams From My Father. He has lied about his radical ties. He lied when he stated that he didn’t know Green Jobs czar Van Jones was openly Marxist, as a simple search on Google showed him stating unequivocally that he was a Marxist.
So we have a man who lies repeatedly. Lied about ObamaCare, not once, but did so on a year-long whirlwind around the country, selling it to the American people. But that doesn’t prove collusion and/or intimidation between Obama and the Supreme Court.
Many on the Right consider the ObamaCare ruling a blessing in disguise. That it will energize the base. That removing Obama now becomes a mandate on repealing ObamaCare. But that interpretation only holds if Roberts’ majority opinion ruling was on the level. If it, in fact, is a Trojan Horse to allow Congress to in effect compel and forbid any behavior—which it basically is, then it is not a blessing. Now the Commerce Clause does not need to be invoked. Congress cannot simply say, “Obese people drive up health costs, thus affecting commerce, so that we have a right to forbid them from eating fast food. We have a right to compel fast food restaurants to stop selling fattening food. We have a right to compel that everyone eats fruits and vegetables.” Now Congress can simply state, “You shall eat fruits and vegetables, and if you don’t, we shall tax you. End of discussion.”
Like most logical conclusions, there is not a definite Yes or No in regards to whether there was collusion and/or intimidation between Obama and the Supreme Court. What we do know is that Obama has proven himself to be a stealth socialist, and that by virtue of the this fact, virtually nothing that he says can be taken at face value. We know that it was extremely odd for a conservative justice to side with the liberal wing of the Supreme Court. We know it is odd that Roberts literally had to rewrite the law in order to fit his interpretation.
But there are three valid arguments for a suspicion of collusion and intimidation:
1.Justice Sotomayor seemed to have attempted to steer Obama’s Solicitor General Verrilli towards the mandate-as-tax argument during oral arguments:
“JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR: General, could you turn to the tax clause?
GENERAL VERRILLI: Yes.
JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR: I have looked for a case that involves the issue of whether something denominated by Congress as a penalty was nevertheless treated as a tax, except in those situations where the code itself or the statute itself said treat the penalty as a tax. Do you know of any case where we’ve done that?
GENERAL VERRILLI: Well, I think I would point the Court to the License Tax Case…” (45).
2. It appears that the ObamaCare ruling was leaked to Wall Street insiders ten minutes before it was released. And if it was leaked ten minutes before it was released, there is no reason to doubt that it wasn’t leaked to Obama weeks prior to the decision.
3. National Review Online and other outlets are now reporting that there substantiated allegations of a concerted effort by Democrats and the mainstream media to change Roberts’ decision and/or to intimidate him to strike down the Individual Mandate after it had been learned that he had already sided with the conservative wing of the Court.
Proving collusion and intimidation, however, is another matter.
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OBAMA either bought the DECISION or There were serious Threats by HOLDER and the D O J. Or Threats by the NEW BLACK PANTHERS. In this AGE of POLITICAL CORRECTNESS ONE DOES NOT SAY NO TO A (BLACK). ESPECIALLY A (BLACK MUSLIM) WHO IS ILLEGALLY SITTING IN THE WHITE HOUSE SOON TO DECLARE THAT HE HIMSELF OBAMA IS SUPREME DICTATOR.!!!
My first throught was that he was threatened to be “Breitbarted” if he didn’t back off and go along with the thugs in power. Maybe they threatened retaliation against family members, but no one should put anything past these soulless creatures. Remember how many young, black homosexual males that were murdered just before he got into the WH? They didn’t want that coming out to comfirm Sinclair’s story. Like we can’t tell he’s effeminate?
O’bama sodomite Islam Hussein Dunham Koran, just waved his little Black Book at the judges, and told them to bend over. Then he threw a few dollars in their direction, for “services”. This is how he bought “protection” from this cheap two dollar judge.
As I have posted and commented many times I believe there are too many people who have been bought, bribed, blackmailed or threatened and more on the list. If this statement is not true this illegal, phony, lying Muslim POTUS would not be in office.
I think the decision was bought and paid for by Obozo’s backers. And probobly some heavy threats made by the Black Panthers. This will all come to light sometime in the future. I hope it comes out before I meet Obozo’s death panel.
Congress will kill the ‘Hell Care Tax Program’ and put a wooden stake through it’s heart so it never again rises………. or ‘we the people’ will do the same to both chambers of Congress. So help me God !
Roberto’s received a threat! Plain and simple! Why do you think Congress does nothing or whyvdoesn’t Harry Reid put the bills passed by the House on the flood of thr Senate ? Threats they’re all scared…ask Bill Clinton !
Since the ruling by Justice Roberts I’ve had this notion that maybe somebody whispered in Justice Roberts ear about the three homo “pals” of OJUDAS that turned up dead, execution style with a bullet to the back of the head, reminded Judge Roberts about these three men and how it could just as easily happen to he and his family. This group of psychotic clowns in control now don’t have a “too low” level to go to in order to stay in power. OJUDAS has even bad mouthed the justices in public and if you don’t think that OJUDAS has any Chicago thugs to call on for thinning the herd, you’re sadly and badly mistaken ! It’s like the old saying goes…”Absolute power corrupts absolutely.” You nit wits that put OJUDAS in the white house had better understand one thing. In the sick twisted mind of OJUDAS anybody who gets in the way is expendable, including you. The most cunning of predators conceals itself until the time of the kill !!!!!!!!!!
Eddie how true…how true. There is no one going to stop Obama of his plundering and stripping the American people of our America! Obama is an arrogant, self-centered, self-serving and self-adulating Muslim homosexual Chicago thug. How many men have been killed in order to get them out of Obama’s way or to hush them up from exposing the bad side of Obama?
The Supreme Court has made Obamacare the largest tax increase on the poor and the middle class in the history of this country . . . it was sold to the American people as a mandate and not a tax and the illegal aliens do not have to pay the tax/penalty!!!!!
Also, I just heard that Biden and Cavuto said we are in a depression now.
I don’t see the decision as others do. Obama pushed this through under the Commerce Clause. In oral arguments the government lawyers called it a tax, then back peddled and called it a fee. Do we remember what Obama and his thugs said about bank fees? They called them a tax. So, obamacare was basically struck down under the Commerce Clause that was used to push it and Judge Roberts correctly called it. A tax was what the govenment called it and that is legal under Constitutional authority for Congress. I don’t think he was intimidated and I don’t believe he sold out. I believe he called obama out on his legal definition of what he could do under commerce and forced it to be recognized as a tax. All the same obama lied and the Supreme Court called him out and won.
The morew I think about it I think Justice Robert’s outsmarted BHO/
What Roberts did was aginst the Constitution. The whole friggen country knows it. He broke his oath to uphold the Constitution. He should step down, remove himself from his position on the Supreme Court as should those that sided with him.
Roberts decision was so unexpected, it is not unreasonable to presume pressure was put on him. In Col. Lakin’s case, veiled threats were made against his family, causing him to take a plea deal, jail time, loss of benefits, etc. It has been mentioned about the three homosexual men with Rev. Wright’s church, two of whom were murdered. A witness to the passport file snooping was murdered. Andrew Breitbart died of a a “heart attack” A witness who saw him fall, with a peculiar “white band” around his forehead and with a red face, has disappeared. The autopsy photography technician was found dead.
Co-incidences? I think not.
I think all of this is to pull attention away from the issue of whether or not Obama is eligible to even run for office again. This illegal crap that just took place will get straighten out after the elections.
If he is removed from the ballot in November none of this will mean anything. Everything he’s done will be undone, allof his EO’s will be erased.
O’bama Islam Hussein Dunham Koran’s real master of the Garter, is the Queen of England. Remember, she was in Kenya, when her father ‘suddenly’ died and she found out she was queen. Her grandson, William had to bring his future wife to Kenya to propose. O’bama is British, because he was born in Kenya. The queen has fond memories of Kenya, and so that who put him on the ‘throne’ in America. However, sodomite (as is her son prince charles) actually control him. The pity is, that they don’t have a practical bone in their body. Prince Charles can not even put tooth paste on his own tooth brush. And these people are controlling America, head the Bilderbergers and run the world. I’d describe it as a real New World Disorder. I cite O’bama as one of their more obvious mistakes.
For clarity, the the queen’ sodomite son, prince charles controls O’bama islam on behalf of his mother, and England, and then the jews feed into that process as their controllers through money and the city of London. prince charles was taught by south african antropologist who promoted half-castes, as a way to ‘solve’ race conflict. If you read about prince charles, his beliefs and who he has had as advisers, you will be amazed how it sounds like the Bilderbergers and the New World Disorder. Also look at, what the British call the ‘Orders’ , for example knighthoods, etc, and note who the American recipients are ( usually called honourary knights) and see what jobs they do. That will help every American understand who controls America.It all comes from England. Christians are the ONLY people, who will be able to fight and succeed against such forces.
I agree that the very bizarre results in the Supreme Court decision esp. Judge Roberts’ sudden abdication of conservatism and almost contorted attempts to find a way to ratify this horror of a low, strongly suggests he was “reached”.
It’s anyone’s guess how an Administration this dishonest and slippery led by master Obama puppet meister Axelrod could have done this, but 1 very likely scenario that is being increasingly discussed centers around Roberts’ long-rumored history of homosexuality.
It’s certainly conceivable that the White House experts in dirty pool have very embarrassing information about Roberts’ gay history that he very much wouldn’t want “outed”, and in classic Edgar Hoover gangster style, blackmailed Roberts with this threat.
I think it’s safe to say that whatever Obama and his Marxist regime want, they get. Obama has truly trampled on our Constitution, our Bill of Rights and our Rule of Law. As far as they’re concerned, none of these documents exist. They have not publicly come out and said our Constitution is meangingless to them, they just don’t abide by it.
This administration, this government, this country has been hijacked by radical, Marxists. Obama is an illegal president (so what he’s not been vetted, they don’t care). They make the rules as they go along and damn the Constitution and our Rule of Law. These people in power in Washington if not reined in, will result in the downfall of our Republic. Obama and his illegal presidency along with his illegal executive orders and his illegal administration are so totally corrupt and anti-American, I believe the only way out of this mess is to have a revolution. Why do I say this? It seems evident that there is no one in the military that will stand up to Obama. There’s no one in Congress nor in the DOJ. Ergo, they care not for our laws and our Constitution. This adminstration is lawless and if not brought to justice, say goodbye America!