Chief Justice John Roberts took a swipe at President Obama during oral arguments Wednesday on the Defense of Marriage Act, saying the president should have the “courage” to stop executing statutes he deems unconstitutional rather than relying on the courts to pave the way.

“If he has made a determination that executing the law by enforcing the terms is unconstitutional, I don’t see why he doesn’t have the courage of his convictions,” Roberts said of Obama, “and execute not only the statute, but do it consistent with his view of the Constitution, rather than saying, oh, we’ll wait till the Supreme Court tells us we have no choice.”
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The case was unusual in that the Obama administration, after initially defending the law, switched sides in 2011 and began pushing the Supreme Court to overturn it, concluding that it was discriminatory and unconstitutional. (It’s rare but within precedent for a president to refuse to defend the validity of a federal law.) As a result, the House Republican majority took the reins and hired counsel to defend it in court. Meanwhile, the Justice Department said it would continue to enforce the law until the courts reach a decision as to its validity.

Justice Antonin Scalia also took issue with the White House’s approach to DOMA, comparing it to an alleged debtor who admits to owing someone money but refuses to pay it.

“Which is the equivalent of the government saying, yeah, [a law is] unconstitutional but I’m going to enforce it anyway,” Scalia said. “I’m wondering if we’re living in this new world where the Attorney General can simply decide, yeah, it’s unconstitutional, but it’s not so unconstitutional that I’m not willing to enforce it. If we’re in this new world, I don’t want these cases like this to come before this Court all the time.”

excerpt, for more see:
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2013/...-obama-doma.php

I can't recall such screwed up advice from a Supreme court justice. “If he has made a determination that executing the law by enforcing the terms is unconstitutional, I don’t see why he doesn’t have the courage of his convictions,”

They are ALL sworn to uphold the law, not the courage of their convictions. What the H** is going on?

Excuse my choice of terms, but John Roberts is a POS.

Many conservatives of my age have voted for the GOP nominee for years and years and years - such stellar [non]conservatives like Ford, Dole and Bush I. Why did we hold our collective noses and do it? Well - we were told - we MUST vote GOP if for no other reason than we need republicans to nominate strict constructionists to the Federal Judiciary (most notably SCOTUS)

Yet in arguably the most important decision of the last 50 years - whether or not Obamacare is Constitutional - where was the scum Roberts?

Exactly

He's a POS

Quote: Rufus T Firefly wrote in post #3

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Excuse my choice of terms, but John Roberts is a POS.

Many conservatives of my age have voted for the GOP nominee for years and years and years - such stellar [non]conservatives like Ford, Dole and Bush I. Why did we hold our collective noses and do it? Well - we were told - we MUST vote GOP if for no other reason than we need republicans to nominate strict constructionists to the Federal Judiciary (most notably SCOTUS)

Yet in arguably the most important decision of the last 50 years - whether or not Obamacare is Constitutional - where was the scum Roberts?

Exactly

He's a POS

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Quote: Rufus T Firefly wrote in post #3

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Excuse my choice of terms, but John Roberts is a POS.

Many conservatives of my age have voted for the GOP nominee for years and years and years - such stellar [non]conservatives like Ford, Dole and Bush I. Why did we hold our collective noses and do it? Well - we were told - we MUST vote GOP if for no other reason than we need republicans to nominate strict constructionists to the Federal Judiciary (most notably SCOTUS)

Yet in arguably the most important decision of the last 50 years - whether or not Obamacare is Constitutional - where was the scum Roberts?

Exactly

He's a POS

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Finally, his ruling makes it unconstitutional to punish (via medicare funding) states which may choose not to participate.

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Move to Tennessee, Frank!

http://thelibertypaper.org/2013/03/27/te...lock-obamacare/

It's right next to Kentucky, home of Mitch The Magnificent!

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In less than 8 hrs since it was reported this morning that Tennessee Governor Haslam would not accept the Medicaid expansion under Obamacare things have swiftly changed. Haslam made his announcement this morning at 9:35 AM, which misled the people of Tennessee and the media to report that Tennessee would not participate in the Medicaid expansion. However, he shortly there after released a “new plan“, which the media did not report on. This new plan actually sneaks the expansion in through the back door. The Tennessee plan will “leverage available federal dollars to purchase private health insurance for Tennesseans up to 138 percent of the federal poverty level who don’t have access to health insurance, which would translate to

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Quote: Cedric wrote in post #11

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Quote: Frank Cannon wrote in post #10

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In less than 8 hrs since it was reported this morning that Tennessee Governor Haslam would not accept the Medicaid expansion under Obamacare things have swiftly changed. Haslam made his announcement this morning at 9:35 AM, which misled the people of Tennessee and the media to report that Tennessee would not participate in the Medicaid expansion. However, he shortly there after released a “new plan“, which the media did not report on. This new plan actually sneaks the expansion in through the back door. The Tennessee plan will “leverage available federal dollars to purchase private health insurance for Tennesseans up to 138 percent of the federal poverty level who don’t have access to health insurance, which would translate to

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Bogus.

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Relax, Frank, the fight has just begun.

We're gonna win this thing (Mr. Wonderful, Justice Roberts, gave us the weapons we need within his masterful SC decision)!

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