…it is significant that both Ilya and Josh agree that the insurance “requirement” is now clearly unconstitutional under Chief Justice Roberts’ “saving construction” approach. If a court so holds, the entire statute would then be in the same posture as it would have been if he had sided with the dissenting justices in the first place. In that eventuality, four justices thought the whole law was inseverable, and the Obama administration conceded the mandate would be inseverable from at least two key provisions of the Act. So the key issue in the new litigation is likely to be whether the fact that Congress zeroed out the penalty somehow changed this analysis such that the mandate is now severable from the rest of the ACA when it was not before. I look forward to reading much more on this question.
This would be great, if this legislative atrocity can finally be struck down via this method, considering all of the legislative legerdemain and chicanery the Democrats had to use to pass it in the first place.
Thoughts from Glenn Reynolds on California’s seceding from the coastal fascists. I don’t understand why the silly-looking gerrymander to keep Sacramento with the coastal “elites.” Set up a new state capital in San Jose or LA, and let the real California keep the delta.
[Update a few minutes later]
This seems sort of related: How the big tech companies went from “Don’t be evil” to doing evil.
[Update a while later]
Steven Kruiser: “Dear California, call me when the commies leave.” I love this state, have for half a century, but I hate its voters.
Screw both of them, as far as I’m concerned. I haven’t taken Snopes seriously since the 90s, when they “debunked” all of the mysterious (and convenient) deaths surrounding the Clinton crime syndicate.
If this is true, he shouldn’t be “criticized,” McCabe should be indicted or prosecuted. They do this because they assume they can get away with it. A few vacations in Club Fed might put an end to that.
[Update a couple minutes later]
Oh, he’ll be not just “criticized,” but censured. That’ll learn him.
This seems related: Career civil servants illegitimately rule America. We really need an overhaul of civil service, including outlawing public-employee unions. It’s particularly horrible in California.
And between Trump and Obama, who is/was tougher on Russia? Hey, he did want to pass the message on to Vlad that after the election, he’d be “more flexible.”
This idiotic sort of thing is what my current project, to make the international legal environment more friendly to space development and settlement, partially about.