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Posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Thu Mar 29 19:18:12 2012, in response to Re: Nazi Scalia: We're not stupid., posted by bingbong on Wed Mar 28 19:08:09 2012. While Solicitor General Donald Verrilli, Jr. made the Obama administration’s case for the constitutionality of the individual mandate in the health-care law Tuesday, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia interrupted, telling Verrilli, “we’re not stupid.”Justice Elena Kagan, a former solicitor general appointed by President Obama to the high court, sided with Verilli in arguing that young people should be required by the federal government to purchase health insurance because eventually, others will subsidize their health care in the future. Scalia shot back, arguing that young people will make the decision to buy health insurance eventually and do not need to be forced by the federal government to engage in commerce. Elena is walking on thin ice though as a SC justice with a statement like that. Whether "young people should be required to purchase..." is the case or not, "SHOULD be" is the key words there. That does NOT make it constitutional that the government FORCES them to do so. She needs to be looking at the constitution, and what it DOES permit, not what she or anyone else thinks it "should" say or wants it to say. |
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