Posts Tagged: supreme court
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Mar 12
From the ACLJ: Supreme Court Hearing on Obamacare Mandate-Day1
Jay Sekulow and the ACLJ have been involved with the Obamacare mandate Supreme Court case and report on the hearings. Transcripts and audio of oral arguments are available HERE.
Keep up with all of Obamacare legal news HERE.
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Feb 12
Obama’s New Budget Director Undermines Obama Health Care Argument to Supreme Court
There’s an old law, called the Anti Injunction Act which says the courts can’t rule on a suit about a tax until the aggrieved persons have already had to pay the tax.
This should not apply to the health care mandate because that is not an actual tax, but is a demand that people buy health insurance and a penalty if they do not.
Obamanator’s lawyers are arguing that the health care mandate is a tax, and asking for the lawsuits against it to be thrown out. If they were right about this, further court ruling on this matter would be delayed until after April 2015, after Obamacare kicks in, and when the penalties are starting to be paid.
Office of Management and Budget Director, Jeffrey Zients was interviewed by Republican (NJ) Rep. Scott Garrett on C Span in Congress, regarding The new Obama budget which claims no new taxes for people making under $250,000 dollars.
Garrett assked Zients if a person making less than that amount does not buy health care and has to pay the mandated fine, is that a tax??? Zients said “NO” it’s not a tax.
Rep. Garrett pointed out that the Obama administration is arguing the OPPOSITE before the Supreme Court, to defend the Health Care Mandate.
Pharmer would like to point out something to the Bishops…. who would have been doing cartwheels if socialized healthcare could have been obtained without the birth control / abortion mandate. If this new budget director had any direction from the White house, Obama cares more about getting reelected than he does about accomplishing the implementation of his socialized medicine scheme. Defending the funding of the program in the Supreme court depends on calling the fine a tax. But the budget (a campaign ploy which the congress has to reject) purports NOT to raise taxes on most Americans. The health care fine / tax hits the lowest income Americans, who cannot afford health care coverage, the hardest. The Obama administration has opted to sell the 2012 budget/campaign ploy harder than means of funding Obamacare.
Read THIS, for more fun in Congress, with Jeffrey Zeints.
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Jun 11
John Stossel: ABC Politics Stopped Him From Doing Acorn Story.
Stossel, now working at FOX, made this admission while interviewing Andrew Breitbart.
Pharmer has the inside track on something that FOX News has not been eager to cover: stories containing the admission that birth control pills can operate by stopping the life of an early human embryo. Fox News reporters would call for interviews dealing with this issue time and time again, take down information, then never call back. At that time, other news networks, newspapers and radio were still permitted to deal with this subject. It was also covered on the O’Reilly Factor elsewhere on the FOX network.
More recently, FOX was able to mention that pharmacists were resisting the Blagojevich order forcing them to dispense all birth control pills in 2005, but we can’t find this year’s Illinois Judicial decision in favor of the pharmacy owners on their network. Maybe it’s buried somewhere deep.
Not to worry, the real news is on the internet now, and the New Media have taken up this story, and many others which the Old Media will not cover.
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Jun 11
Wisconsin Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Union Rights Law
Wisconsin Supreme Court Backs Controversial Union Law | The Blaze.
Governor Scott Walker and the Wisconsin Republicans scored a major victory with the Supreme Court decision to allow the new Union bargaining rights law to go into effect.
A county judge, Maryann Sumi, had vacated the law based upon procedures of its passage, but was found to have overstepped her authority.
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Feb 11
Will the Supreme Court of Kansas Protect Planned Parenthood from Criminal Charges
Reader’s condensed background on Kline saga – Jill Stanek.
Phill Kline once served as KS Attorney General and as District Attorney of Johnson County. While in the latter position, he filed over a hundred criminal charges against a local planned parenthood facility for illegal late term abortions and for concealing the sexual abuse of minors. Three judges have allowed this case to remain active, and the current district attorney has been compelled by public interest to continue prosecuting the case.
The Supreme Court of Kansas has been packed mostly by former Governor Kathleen Sebelius, who worked to keep Kansas the U.S. capital of late term abortion, and who will be sure to keep abortion at the heart of Obama-care, as her current boss promised to planned parenthood.
There is a move to deprive Phill Kline of his law license, in order to scare law enforcement away from enforcing medical standards and taking planned parenthood to task for its many failures. The tactics funded by planned parenthood’s supporters have worked to scare other prosecutors away from dealing with the abysmal conditions at abortion clinics. The result is that such clinics as Gosnell’s “shop of horrors” in Philadelphia have continued without regulation for decades.
Starting on Feb 21, we will find out the degree to which the Supreme Court of Kansas, through its Disciplinary Administrator, would like to support the sexual abuse of minors, the substandard medical practices of the abortion industry, and its standard-bearer, planned parenthood.
Appended is the finding from the original Ethics Investigation of Phill Kline in 2008, finding no basis for accusations of violations or wrongdoing. This result has been kept buried for two years. Take a look.
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Feb 11
Virginia to seek expedited Supreme Court review of suit over health-care law
Virginia to seek expedited Supreme Court review of suit over health-care law.
Ken Cuccinelli, Atty. General of Virginia is petitioning the U.S. Supreme court for expedited review of the Obamacare case. Of course the Obama administration’s “justice” department is opposing this as they would like to destructure the insurance companies and dismantle enough of the present system as possible before an actual repeal or reversal could occur. This would make people miserable and impatient during the next, more conservative administration and hopefully place Dems back in power after people forget their socialistic hubris.
Such expedited reviews by the Supreme Court are a rarity, but would be very nice in this case, to prevent destruction of the current system, and dissolution of the health insurance industry, as well as extreme waste of taxpayer dollars.
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Jan 11
Emanual SHOCKER
Clout St: Emanuel asks Illinois Supreme Court for emergency stay.
An appellate court actually booted Rahm Emanuel off of the ballot of the Chicago mayoral race!
He doesn’t meet the residency requirements, and a couple of judges in Illinois actually upheld the law: Justice Thomas E. Hoffman and Justice Shelvin Louise Marie Hall.
(Will they receive dead Asian carp delivered by mail? Inquiring minds want to know.)
With the ballots about to be printed, Rahm has appealed to the Illinois Supreme Court to allow him to be included.
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Jun 10
Detailing Elena Kagan’s Role Attempting to Preserve the Partial Birth Abortion Procedure
Some people think that the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists drafted a statement suggesting that partial birth abortion procedure (intact D & X) might be the best way to save the life of the mother under certain circumstances. In reality, the ACOG opinion stated doubt that the procedure was ever the only medical alternative.
It is not. Sucking out the brains of a mostly delivered baby has no bearing on the physical status of the mother, (barring a severe error on the abortionist’s part). In addition, the breech delivery that was necessary for this procedure to be legal is more risky to the woman.
Kagan’s Abortion Distortion – Shannen W. Coffin – National Review Online.
Read up^. The original ACOG statement on this issue was changed by one Elena Kagan, to suggest that partial birth abortion had medical utility, because this woman is a a true feminazi in the real sense of the word.
The ACOG statement, as altered by Kagan, was used in subsequent legal battles against the bans on partial birth abortion, until final conclusions in the Supreme Court.
By the late 1990s, the actual PBA procedure had been almost entirely discontinued, because it was so distasteful to both the abortionists and their clients. It, however was NOT distasteful to Elena Kagan.
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Jun 10
More Gun Right recognition for All Americans, from the Supremes
Supreme Court rules that all Americans have fundamental right to bear arms.
This decision addresses the restrictive handgun law in Chicago, and provides a legal precedent for similar gun control laws to be challenged throughout the US.
Another decision announced by the court upholds the policy of public educational institutions to refuse recognition to student groups which restrict membership based on beliefs.
This is a two edged sword, since it means that Christian student groups cannot restrict membership to Christians if they are to have institutional recognition. It also means……. hehhehheh, that all other groups must open up their membership standards or lose university recognition (or funding). That would be murder on the liberal groups, but any conservative group really doesn’t need university support.
So, if you would like to bring some straight pride to the gay activist groups, or some christianity to the muslim groups, or pro-life ideology to the pro-choice groups….. etc. etc. it appears to be quite possible now. Pharmer recommends that conservative students get busy, and have some fun with this.
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Apr 10
Nebraska Bill to Ban Late-Term Abortions Based on Fetal Pain Passes First Vote
Nebraska Bill to Ban Late-Term Abortions Based on Fetal Pain Passes First Vote.
Nebraska is rapidly becoming the late term abortion capital, taking over this dubious distinction from Wichita Kansas, home of abortionist George Tiller, who was forcibly caused to assume ambient temperature last year.
The response from Nebraskans has been to introduce a bill, LB1103, placing limits on late term abortions based upon fetal pain studies, setting a limit at 20 weeks.
Naturally the abortion advocates are up in arms. American College of Obstetrics and Gynecologists (with past president Dr. Richard T.F. Schmidt dissenting) is stepping outside its medical specialty to declare that there is no evidence that humans feel pain at 20 weeks development in utero. Perhaps they’ll lose a few more members over this.
The specialists to consult would be neuroanatomists, pediatricians, perinatologists, neonatologists, embryologists, etc.
The practice to give narcotics and benzodiazepines to premature babies weighing about a half kilo in the NICU is likely based upon something, don’t you think?
There have been hair splitting arguments assuming that consciousness of pain is required for humane treatment, with discussions of the degree of needed connectivity between the hypothalamus and cerebrum for true awareness to occur. This is notwithstanding the concept that consciousness begins at the level of the hypothalamus itself.
The animal rights activists are needing no such debates and standards to request and obtain humane treatment for their creatures.
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Jan 10
Supremes Undo McCain Feingold Restrictions
In a five to four decision, the Supreme Court opened up free political speech to everyone, once again giving special interest groups, and corporations, (and pro-lifers) equal footing with the media and unions.
This naturally has the side most favored by media and unions up in arms, wanting to hold congressional hearings to review the Supreme Court decision, and planning new legislation to put themselves back in the position of advantage.
It will be interesting to see how this opens up the political expression in churches, which was heretofore limited to Jeremiah Wright and the renegade Fr. Michael Pfleger. This has been suppressed since the Johnson administration, when the IRS took it upon itself to adopt a new regulatory condition for non-profits.
See the entire court decision posted at Breitbart’s Big Journalism .
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