Fox News legal analyst and PPD columnist Judge Andrew Napolitano ripped the Supreme Court’s decision to uphold ObamaCare, specifically Chief Justice John Roberts.
“My immediate reaction is that the chief justice has yet again resorted to a nearly unheard of construction in order to save the statute,” Napolitano said. “Last time around when the government said it was not a tax and the challengers said it was not a tax, the chief justice ruled it was a tax and that saved it.”
“This time around he took the plain meaning of ordinary words, ‘established by the states,’ and somehow held that they were ambiguous, and that he could — and that that the majority could — correct the ambiguity according to what they thought the drafters meant.”
The Supreme Court in a 6-3 decision ruled Thursday that ObamaCare subsidies offered by the federal government to people living in states without an exchange are constitutional. Justice Antonin Scalia also ripped the majority opinion.
“The court is now in the business of saving a statute in order to save its reputation,” Napolitano said, summarizing the dissent of Justice Antonin Scalia. “I believe … [Roberts] will continue to undermine his won credibility as a fair-minded jurist, because he has reached to bizarre and odd contortions in order to save this statute twice,” Napolitano said.
“This is a weird and and unpredictable outcome,” he concluded.
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