Today is a day of disappointment and alarm for the United States of America.
The U.S. Supreme Court erred badly and dangerously on Thursday in narrowly upholding ObamaCare, the federal attempt to seize effective control of medical care. A majority of the states — which are to be saddled with enormous costs related to ObamaCare — had sued. But the court has brushed off their objections in a 5-4 ruling.
Chief Justice John Roberts surprisingly and unfortunately joined the court’s four most liberal members — Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor — in upholding ObamaCare.
Justices Samuel Alito, Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas and even liberal Anthony Kennedy rightly dissented.
The justices who voted to keep ObamaCare fully intact did so despite Roberts’ own acknowledgment that the law “is constitutional in part and unconstitutional in part.”