Here are some samples via Slate:
Ruth Bader Ginsberg:
Mr. Verrilli, I thought that your main point is that, unlike food or any other market, when you made the choice not to buy insurance, even though you have every intent in the world to self-insure, to save for it, when disaster strikes, you may not have the money.
Stephen Breyer:
Justice Kennedy asked, can you, under the Commerce Clause, Congress create commerce where previously none existed. Well, yes, I thought the answer to that was, since McCulloch versus Maryland, when the Court said Congress could create the Bank of the United States which did not previously exist, which job was to create commerce that did not previously exist, since that time the answer has been, yes.
Breyer, again.
Your question is whether or not there are any limits on the Commerce Clause. Can you identify for us some limits on the Commerce Clause?
There has never been any question in any Supreme Court analysts mind about how the four liberal Justices will vote on this case. Their minds were made up before the law was passed. Two of them, Sotomayer and Kagan, owe Obama their jobs. Breyer and Ginsberg are judicial activists who never met a liberal idea they didn't like.
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They will not recuse themselves, they are leftists. They are the enlightened above us peasants. They cannot possibly have a conflict of interest even if they have dinners with HHS Secretary Sebellius.
You will not hear any arguments that actually cite the Constitution from them. They were in the tank for this vote YEARS ago.
Why can't someone introduce a law that all justices and journalists must by products from Rush limbaugh as it would fall under the commerce clause. I bet that you would se some major back pedaling or at least a lot of equivicating in a hurry fom the same people that see no problem with this. This still goes back to the problem that we are supposed to be a republic, if you don't like what the constitution says, then get two thirds of the people to vote against it, at least you have some backup by the greater majority of populace, as opposed to a bare majority.
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