Protesters take sides as Supreme Court hears health care arguments

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Protesters take sides as Supreme Court hears health care arguments
By NBC's Chuck Todd, Mark Murray, Domenico Montanaro, and Brooke Brower

*** Day One at the Supreme Court: For the first time in several months, the top political story won’t be taking place on the Republican campaign trail, or at the White House, or on Capitol Hill. Instead, today’s top story occurs over at the U.S. Supreme Court on the issue that took up much of 2009 and 2010: health care.

http://photoblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/201...-arguments

Lots of photos at the link. I see some nut brought their snake flag with them. Also heard that Santorum will be there protesting the ACA some time today with the nutjobs. If someone annoys him we may see another temper melt down from him.

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Obama's "Yes We Can" or John Boehner's "Hell No, You Can't"? Who Will You Listen?

Uploaded by ProtectSouthOssetia on Mar 25, 2010

March 24, 2010
The "Hell No You Can't : YES WE CAN" Videomix by Josh Stanley of original by Black Eye Peas member will.i.am (featuring John Boehner) ...It Rocks..MUST SEE and share...
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House Republican leader's John Boehner's final "Hell no, you can't" angry and profane rant on Sunday (Mar. 21, 2010) against President's Obama's Health Care Plan is now infamous.

This is worth a repeat with the SC deciding the fate of the mandate today.

Yes We Can!

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Mariano ‏ @art2u2
...Church RWNJs coming out of Supreme Court hearings now claim Health Care Law violates Religious Freedom,..What? #gop #tcot #dnc #p2


Oh boy, here we go.

[Born_A_Truman]

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday starts three days of hearings on the constitutionality of the 2010 health care overhaul law, an epic clash that could recast the very structure of American government. But it begins with a 90-minute argument on what a lawyer in the case has called “the most boring jurisdictional stuff one can imagine.”

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The main event — arguments over the constitutionality of the law’s requirement that most Americans obtain insurance or pay a penalty — will not come until Tuesday. But early Monday morning, crowds continued to grow outside the court, as supporters and opponents gathered to demonstrate.

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Among the handful of opponents was Keli Carender, a 32-year-old activist from Seattle who was an early Tea Party organizer.

Quote:“If we know how inefficient and inept the government is, why would you want it to make this decision for you?” she said, holding a yellow “Don’t Tread on Me” flag and wearing pink-rimmed sunglasses.

Ms. Carender said she received health insurance through her job, but that if the bill was allowed to stand, she said she would drop the policy in protest.

Quote:“I am not going to trade my health for my freedom,” she said.

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Oh boy!

[Drunken Irishman]

(03-26-2012 10:31 AM)Born_A_Truman Wrote:  WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday starts three days of hearings on the constitutionality of the 2010 health care overhaul law, an epic clash that could recast the very structure of American government. But it begins with a 90-minute argument on what a lawyer in the case has called “the most boring jurisdictional stuff one can imagine.”

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The main event — arguments over the constitutionality of the law’s requirement that most Americans obtain insurance or pay a penalty — will not come until Tuesday. But early Monday morning, crowds continued to grow outside the court, as supporters and opponents gathered to demonstrate.

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Among the handful of opponents was Keli Carender, a 32-year-old activist from Seattle who was an early Tea Party organizer.

Quote:“If we know how inefficient and inept the government is, why would you want it to make this decision for you?” she said, holding a yellow “Don’t Tread on Me” flag and wearing pink-rimmed sunglasses.

Ms. Carender said she received health insurance through her job, but that if the bill was allowed to stand, she said she would drop the policy in protest.

Quote:“I am not going to trade my health for my freedom,” she said.

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Oh boy!

I'm glad that dumb cow has the freedom to keep or drop her health insurance. For a lot of Americans, they don't have that freedom because they don't have healthcare.

What a selfish asshole. This is going to sound harsh, and by no means do I really mean it, but I hope she drops it, gets cancer and is forced to renew her coverage - which would most likely only be doable because of Obama's healthcare law.

Then her life could be saved and then she'll see why so many people support this law.

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Supreme Court Clerks Predict Health Care Reform Will Be Upheld

Posted: 03/26/2012 11:34 am Updated: 03/26/2012 12:06 pm

WASHINGTON -- The lawyers who know the Supreme Court justices best seem largely certain that they'll uphold the president's health care law following the next three critical days of oral arguments.

The Republican-leaning American Action Forum and the centrist-Democratic group Blue Dog Research Forum released a poll of former clerks of current justices, as well as attorneys who have argued before the court. In it, they asked for predictions about how the court will rule on the Affordable Care Act.

Only 35 percent of respondents felt that the individual mandate penalizing those who decline to buy health insurance would be ruled unconstitutional. More than a quarter of respondents (27 percent) expected that the case would be thrown out until the mandate actually comes into effect in 2014, with the justices citing the Anti-Injunction Act as a way to argue that there is no standing for a suit.

The findings are far from scientific. Only 66 people participated in the survey -- 43 former clerks and 23 other attorneys -- a group American Action Forum compiled through public records searches of recent cases. Moreover, the tilt of the respondent pool was, like the court, a bit conservative. The survey describes the respondents as follows: "Of the Supreme Court clerks, 12 clerked for the 'left' block of the Court (Justices Breyer, Ginsburg, Kagan, Sotomayor), 21 clerked for the 'right' block of the Court (Justices Alito, Roberts, Scalia, Thomas), and 10 clerked for Justice Kennedy."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/26...tml?ref=tw

I hope they are right and it stands. The repubs will lose their minds.