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Obama Gains Vindication and Secures Legacy With Health Care Ruling – A Victory For The American People

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , , , , , , , , , , on June 26, 2015 by sheriffali

The Republicans that are running on empty and not doing anything to help America or the American people, they again came out in full force, “we must repeal Obamacare.”

 

John Boehner and Mitch McConnell lead the charge against Chief Justice Roberts and continue lying about how bad the Affordable Care Act is for America.

 

It is stunning to witness the stupidity of some Americans when asked if they like the Affordable Care Act, they say that it is great; then when asked if they like Obamacare, they fraught with disdain.

 

These are the people that make up the Republican Voters and yes, Republican Politicians continue to prey on the vulnerable, uninformed, ignorant and brainwashed base.[Sheriff Ali]

 

[NYT] WASHINGTON — For years, President Obama has faced the sneers of political adversaries who called his health care law Obamacare and assailed his effort to build a legacy that has been the aspiration of every Democratic president since Harry S. Truman.

 

But on Thursday, Mr. Obama walked into the Rose Garden to accept vindication as the Supreme Court, for a second time, affirmed the legality of a part of the Affordable Care Act. Mr. Obama said the law “is working exactly as it’s supposed to” and called for an end to the vitriolic politics that have threatened it. 

“The point is, this is not an abstract thing anymore,” Mr. Obama told reporters, with Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. smiling broadly beside him. “This is not a set of political talking points. For all the misinformation campaigns, all the doomsday predictions, all the talk of death panels and job destruction, for all the repeal attempts — this law is now helping tens of millions of Americans.”

 

Mr. Obama’s plea to stop “refighting battles that have been settled again and again and again” met on Thursday with immediate resistance. House Speaker John A. Boehner, Republican of Ohio, promised to “do everything we can” to undermine the law. Jeb Bush, a Republican candidate for president, vowed “to repeal and replace this flawed law” if he succeeds Mr. Obama in the Oval Office.

 

 

Mr. Boehner said he will continue to move forward with a lawsuit against the president that argues that Mr. Obama overstepped his legal authority in carrying out the health care act, although the case is in its early stages at the district court level and could take years to come before the Supreme Court. Other Republicans mused on Thursday about using parliamentary maneuvers to chip away at the law.

 

But for Mr. Obama, the ruling was a personal affirmation of the wisdom of engaging in a costly political fight that began almost as soon as he took office. The court’s ruling, Mr. Obama said Thursday, cements the Affordable Care Act in American history as the logical extension of Social Security and Medicare.

 

“This generation of Americans chose to finish the job,” Mr. Obama said, reading from one of two sets of remarks — one written as if the Supreme Court upheld the subsidies and another as if the court did not. Cody Keenan, Mr. Obama’s chief speechwriter, had prepared both sets before the court announced its decision.

 

Once the decision was announced, and just before walking into the Rose Garden, Mr. Obama signed the set of remarks for Mr. Keenan that were written as if the court had ruled against the administration. “Didn’t need this one, brother!” Mr. Obama scrawled across the bottom.

 

 

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The United States Supreme Court Five Conservative Justices, Is The Sewage Sludge Plant For Right Wing Republican Excrement.

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on October 18, 2014 by sheriffali

Texas New Voter ID Law is deemed to be discriminatory against Blacks and Hispanics, but the Supreme Court struck down a Federal Judge ruling that had block the implementation of Texas Voter ID law in the upcoming Mid Term Election.

 

We saw these same Justices allowing Corporations to fuel as much money in all Elections when they ruled in the Citizens United Case. In addition they took the side of Corporations as “People,” in the Hobby Lobby case that discriminated against women’s right.

 

The tampering of the Voting Rights of Blacks and other minority Citizens begun, when Chief Justice Roberts and the other four Conservatives struck down Section 4 of the Voting Right Act that literally disabled Section 5, the most important Section of the Voting Right Act of 1964.

 

In any country but especially in America, when the Highest Court in the land decide cases based on Political Affiliation rather than the Constitution, we fall into the Abyss faster than we can even realize.

 

We must never forget that it was William Rehnquist’s Supreme Court that disenfranchised the State of Florida that gave George W Bush the Presidency. If we stop being prejudiced for a moment and or taking Political sides, Bush did more damage to America than did Pearl Harbor. Thousands died on 9/11/01 and thousands more died in George W Bush’s insane Invasion of Iraq.

 

When would the American people wake up and see the Republicans for the frauds they are? They cut 600 Million Dollars from the CDC Budget and now they blame everyone for the dangers of Ebola; they have blocked every Domestic Bill that would have helped the Working Class, Poor, Elderly, Students and the Country; they create millions of Veterans from Wars based on their phantasmagoric rationales and internecine Policies and then they Vote against Veterans Bills. And yet, the great majority of Americans that do not benefit from Republicans, those same people Vote to keep these repugnant reprobates in Office! Go figure how stupidity exist!

 

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SCOTUS RACIAL BIAS

On The Legal Front Lines Of Same Sex Marriage “Redeeming The Dream” By David Boise And Theodore B. Olson

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on June 29, 2014 by sheriffali

“For more than four years a group of prominent lawyers led by Theodore B. Olson and David Boies, along with political consultants and Hollywood celebrities, campaigned against Proposition 8, the ban on same-sex marriages approved by California voters in 2008. The group, the American Foundation for Equal Rights, had two primary goals: to secure a judicial victory in the Supreme Court extending marriage to gay couples nationwide and to increase support for the cause through a public-relations blitz.

 

A year after the Supreme Court sidestepped the first part of that quest in Hollingsworth v. Perry, the publicity campaign to shape the cultural and legal memory of their effort continues. Theatrical, film and newspaper accounts by insiders and others given extraordinary access have chronicled the litigation. Most notably, the recently published “Forcing the Spring: Inside the Fight for Marriage Equality,” by Jo Becker, an investigative reporter for The New York Times, angered longtime gay-marriage advocates for depicting the movement as having “languished in obscurity” until the Perry litigation rescued it.

 

The latest triumphal installment comes from Mr. Olson and Mr. Boies, in “Redeeming the Dream: The Case for Marriage Equality.” This self-described “odd couple”— Mr. Olson is a Republican, Mr. Boies is a liberal Democrat — were legal adversaries in the contested 2000 presidential election, Bush v. Gore, before teaming up to challenge the constitutionality of Proposition 8.

 

More dual memoir than history book, “Redeeming the Dream” takes us through the legal proceedings, dutifully summarizing briefs, oral arguments and decisions. It is padded with redundancies, digressions and trivia, lacks footnotes and offers few substantive revelations about the case.

 

But the book’s faults are deeper still. The authors assert that the Perry decision “gave us, and the country, a victory that would echo throughout history.” They maintain that the publicity their case generated “contributed in a material way” to a “sweeping change in public opinion.” Simply put, Mr. Olson proclaims, “We have changed the world.” [NYT]

 

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The Proposition 8 case restored same-sex marriage to California, and the authors are justifiably proud of; Open NYT Link

 

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The US Supreme Court says A 150 year rule used by previous Presidents is not allowed for use by President Obama. Is it the Law or is it Mr. Obama’s 50% African American Blood?

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President Obama has used far fewer Recess Appointments, only 29 as compared to George W Bush’s 171; Bill Clinton’s 139, George W.H. Bush 77 and the Republican Greek god Ronald Reagan’s 243 times.

 

The Republicans and their Right-Wing Trolls are going to complain about the race card being used, however, the truth of the matter is that whatever President Obama does it is deemed a Violation one way or the other. None of these escapades transpired when 100% White Presidents was using the 150 year rule, but since becoming President, “race has been used against Obama Front and Center.”

 

“When one branch of government routinely abuses its constitutional power in order to prevent another from functioning, the Supreme Court is expected to take notice and stop the abuse. Unfortunately the court failed to do so on Thursday in an important balance-of-power case, raising the prospect that President Obama and his successors could have trouble making necessary appointments to executive posts as the nation’s politics become more sharply

 

The court invalidated a series of appointments Mr. Obama made to the National Labor Relations Board in 2012, at a time when Republicans were blocking all nominations to the board, regardless of merit, to prevent pro-union decisions. Mr. Obama had erred, the court said, by declaring the Senate in recess at a time when it was holding short pro forma sessions every three days when nearly all members were on vacation and no real business was being transacted. Though Article 2 of the Constitution gives the president power to make recess appointments, the unanimous opinion of the court was that these pro forma sessions did not constitute a recess because “the Senate is in session when it says it is,” as long as it is capable of conducting business.

 

This view is willfully blind to the real purpose of the pro forma sessions, which were held solely to thwart the president from making recess appointments. No real legislating can take place when virtually all members are out of town — as the Senate’s official website says, “no business is conducted at these sessions.” The fact that during one session the presiding officer rubber-stamped a payroll tax deal that had been reached the week before — cited by the court as proof of real business — doesn’t change what everyone in Washington knew was really going on.

The opinion, written by Justice Stephen Breyer, did at least preserve the theoretical right of presidents to make recess appointments at any time when Congress is closed for more than 10 days. In so doing, it reversed the bizarre prescription of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit that such appointments can only be made between sessions of Congress, and then only when vacancies occur during that limited recess. An expansive interpretation of recesses has prevailed since the beginning of the republic, Justice Breyer wrote, showing a regard for history not shared by Justice Antonin Scalia and three of his conservative colleagues, who wrote a concurring opinion that supported the circuit court’s ruling.” [NYT]

 

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