Quote for the day

A ruling this consequential had better be based on rock-solid legal argument. Instead, the opinion by Judge Reed O’Connor is an exercise of raw judicial power, unmoored from the relevant doctrines concerning when judges may strike down a whole law because of a single alleged legal infirmity buried within.

We were on opposing sides of the 2012 and 2015 Supreme Court challenges to the Affordable Care Act, and we have different views of the merits of the act itself. But as experts in the field of statutory law, we agree that this decision makes a mockery of the rule of law and basic principles of democracy — especially Congress’s constitutional power to amend its own statutes and do so in accord with its own internal rules.

New York Times

I have yet to find anything written by a serious legal scholar that upholds yesterday’s ruling, so I’m guessing that the greatest part of this ruling will be struck down on appeal. It has the look and feel of a fit of judicial pique, more about smacking Obama — A Nigra!! And a Moozlim!! — than a serious effort to settle a legal question.

But, then, the First Felon has appointed two justices to the Supreme Court, so I guess just about anything is possible.

The solution is to face the reality that the Republican Party has become a nihilistic sickness in the body politic, that the country is in the hands of its enemies. #Resist.

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