Obama: Supreme Court won’t overturn health care law

[Rockntractor]

By JENNIFER EPSTEIN | 4/2/12 2:31 PM EDT Updated: 4/2/12 3:37 PM EDT

President Barack Obama voiced confidence Monday that the Supreme Court will uphold his health care law in his first public remarks on the issue since the three days of oral arguments last week.

In a rare instance of a president weighing in on a high court case in which the ruling has not yet been released, Obama suggested that the high court would be guilty of “judicial activism” if it overturned the law. He also argued that the justices should uphold the individual mandate, saying it’s a key — and constitutional — piece of the law.

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[Janice]

It is an extraordinarily stupid thing for a sitting president to attack a coequal branch of government. And this is not his first time. His comments are so breathtakingly stupid that he should be removed from office, or censured by the congress, or suspended from the presidency for demonstrated incompetence. He is either completely clueless about the constitution, or astoundlingly dishonest, or a combination thereof.

The ultimate irony of all this, if the SCOTUS upholds this dictatorial utopian regulatory scam, will be that the world will eventually find out that America was brougth down by a man who was not even elligible to hold the office.

[SarasotaRepub]

Our Dear Leader certainly sounded like he was threatening the SC.

[Retread]

"Let the end be legitimate, let it be within the scope of the constitution, and all means which are appropriate, which are plainly adapted to that end, which are not prohibited, but consist with the letter and spirit of the constitution, are constitutional. ... [S]hould Congress, under the pretext of executing its powers, pass laws for the accomplishment of objects not entrusted to the government, such [acts are] not the law of the land."

Justice John Marshall (1755-1835) US Supreme Court Chief Justice

[txradioguy]

Our Dear Leader certainly sounded like he was threatening the SC.

I'm telling you...I wouldn't put it past him to fire the entire Supreme Court if he doesn't get his way on this law.

[Odysseus]

I'm telling you...I wouldn't put it past him to fire the entire Supreme Court if he doesn't get his way on this law.

This is pure Alinsky. He's making the case that if the court does it's job, it's illegitimate, and therefore he can isolate and freeze it as a target. He cannot arbitrarily fire the court, but he can try to pack it with the help of the senate.

[Rockntractor]

If a president ignores a court ruling and the senate is the same party as he is, how can he be stopped?

[Hawkgirl]

I'm telling you...I wouldn't put it past him to fire the entire Supreme Court if he doesn't get his way on this law.

He doesn't have the power to do that.

[linda22003]

I'm telling you...I wouldn't put it past him to fire the entire Supreme Court if he doesn't get his way on this law.

I think he's aware he doesn't have that power. Cf. Roosevelt and Court packing in the 1930s.

[Rockntractor]

I think he's aware he doesn't have that power. Cf. Roosevelt and Court packing in the 1930s.

http://www.conservativeunderground.c...-Court-in-1937