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Tell the Supreme Court: "Judge Health Care By the Constitution, Not Your Political Opinions"


US Politics & Gov't  (tags: health care, Supreme Court, government, ethics, republicans )

Nancy
- 409 days ago - leftaction.com
The role of the Supreme Court is not to make law, but to interpret the nation's laws, including judging whether they are Constitutional. Thus, legal experts across the spectrum had assumed that the health-care case would be a no brainer, and that the law



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Olivia S. (150)
Friday April 6, 2012, 6:25 am
Thanks for posting...already signed this petition and several others from LeftAction (2x).
 

michael hall (42)
Friday April 6, 2012, 7:27 am
Obey the supreme law of the land? Who in power does that quaint exercise anymore?
 

Terry King (102)
Friday April 6, 2012, 8:35 am
Right wing judicial activism must stop!
 

. (0)
Friday April 6, 2012, 8:42 am
Noted, thank you.
 

Sara W. (100)
Friday April 6, 2012, 8:50 am
I thought Supreme Court justices HAD to be impartial...yet the majority of them are clearly right wing, conservative. We need serious changes to our Supreme Court and what determines how long they serve. They shouldn't be allowed to affect the lives of every single American if they are judging based on personal opinions and not impartiality.
 

Jason S. (55)
Friday April 6, 2012, 9:12 am
Thanks
 

Daria Wells (30)
Friday April 6, 2012, 10:39 am
Signed. Way too much politics going on & not enough public service. Term limits for House, Senate, and Supremes!
 

John S. (232)
Friday April 6, 2012, 12:23 pm
Can't sign this, not that I am against health care (I have lived in the UK and Australia for the past 20 years). In the long term, what would be the effect of the expansion of the Commerce Clause on the power of the States and the Federal Government (the law of unintended Consequences scare me to be honest). What would Congress through the Commerce Clause grab next? Quite frankly, how can any Legislative Body pass a Bill that is 2700+ pages and neither have read it or understand? Change it to a tax and sell it but this is just sneaky.
 

Billie C. (2)
Friday April 6, 2012, 1:07 pm
that means the liberal judges will need to vote against it. they should. once the government can force us to buy products then we have lost our major freedoms. they will make us buy tracking devices next for "security reasons".
obamacare must go. put in single payer but do not force people to buy products. obama and his fools overstepped their bounds.
 

. (2)
Friday April 6, 2012, 1:49 pm
Facts only, please,.
 

Aimee A. (177)
Friday April 6, 2012, 1:58 pm
Very informative! Thanks for posting!
 

Max P. (6)
Friday April 6, 2012, 1:59 pm
"Thus, legal experts across the spectrum had assumed that the health-care case would be a no brainer, and that the law would be upheld"
Huh? Many legal experts belive the law - especially the individual mandate - is clearly unconstitutional. Forcing people to buy products, engage in commerce is not part of the commerce clause of the US constitution. If they can force us to buy health insurance they can force us to buy anything. What's next? Force us to buy cars?
The only way the supremes vote to uphold this government over-reaching law is to ignore the constitution and vote politically. I sincerely hope they don't do that.
 

Betsy Bee (1370)
Friday April 6, 2012, 2:02 pm
The facts and facts alone.
 

Judy B. (93)
Friday April 6, 2012, 2:04 pm
Already signed, thanks.
 

Carol H. (215)
Friday April 6, 2012, 3:49 pm
signed and noted
 

Norm C. (77)
Friday April 6, 2012, 5:45 pm
S&N.

I cannot think of a more embarrassing performance in oral arguments than the ones put in by Justice Scalia this week. To parrot a completely irrelevant argument about broccoli and to talk about features of the ACA that do not exist is just astonishingly incompetent. He, obviously, can no longer devote the time and energy to do his job. That was even worse than Justice Thomas' years of complete silence and occasional napping during oral arguments.

Resign, now.

 

Yvette T. (256)
Friday April 6, 2012, 9:39 pm
Signed, and continued to sign more petitions as they cam up. One, for bats white nose fungal disease (actually destroys their wings first) I have already signed, bu, duplicate signed it. I heard a report on NPR that farmers save multiple BILLIONS $$$$ in pesticide money because bats eat so many insect. Reduction of pesticides is crucial to the health of all life on Earth. Due to the fact that so many people and politicians care more about $$ MONEY than anything else, it is good to note the savings and facts financially on these issues.
 

Jutta N. (169)
Saturday April 7, 2012, 1:31 am
Signed and noted! Thank you!
 

Joe R. (157)
Saturday April 7, 2012, 7:54 am
Noted and signed.
 

Delores W. (15)
Saturday April 7, 2012, 9:50 am
Judge Scalia doesn't want to take time to read the health care law and he won't allow his law clerks to read the law. I would like to ask Judge Scalia why we need Supreme Court Justices
 

Al B. (27)
Saturday April 7, 2012, 10:08 am
It's amazing to me that the health care law is up for debate in the SCOTUS, when 40,000 americans die every year because they don't have access to medical care. Here is a program that will cost $94 billion a year for the next 10 years and save thousands of lives. It's not perfect, but it's a start.

Republicans like to decry the cost of the program, yet tripped over themselves to support the Iraq / Afghanistan wars, which killed hundreds of thousands of people and cost between $4 and $6 trillion without even being included in the budget, until Obama took office.

Why is it that 'conservatives' will spare no expense for killing, yet hold their nose to drop a dime to help humanity?
 

Nancy Roussy (79)
Saturday April 7, 2012, 12:18 pm
I signed but I'm not sure if my signature passed though (its like the page refreshed and everything was like it was when i went there), thank you!
 

Lois Jordan (42)
Saturday April 7, 2012, 4:55 pm
Signed. Thanks, Nancy.
 

Teresa Cowley (273)
Sunday April 8, 2012, 4:18 am
Noted and signed--thanks Nancy!
 

Kathy Javens (104)
Sunday April 8, 2012, 8:40 am
Signed Noted.
 

Shelly Peterson (214)
Sunday April 8, 2012, 3:02 pm
so signed!
 

Mary away T. (189)
Monday April 9, 2012, 6:55 pm
Already signed thanks Nancy.
 

Donna S. (38)
Tuesday April 10, 2012, 11:12 am
Noted & Signed
 

Nan L. (138)
Wednesday April 11, 2012, 7:43 am
Amen Max. BTW...it is not the SCOTUS's job to read the bill. That was congresses job and they didn't do it. The damn thing was mainly written by staffers for heavens sake. AND Guess who the staffers gave the first waivers to??? That's right THEMSELVES.

It's an embarassment. When are we going to demand that bills be read before they are passed.

This whole thing must be repealed and replaced with real solutions. Do you know that there are several mandates in the bill that have absolutely nothing to do with healthcare? Amazingly idiotic. This congress is a total failure. Anyone who voted for this trash needs to be replaced.
 
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