Friday, March 30, 2012

ObamaCare's 2700 Pages Too Much For Supreme Court Justices

The Examiner reports:
During the long, painful debate that led to the passage of Obamacare, Republican lawmakers made a single request of their colleagues, the press and the public: Please read the 2,700-page bill. That request was mostly ignored, even by many of the members of Congress who voted for what became the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

Now, it's someone else's turn not to read the bill. In oral arguments before the Supreme Court this week, some justices made it abundantly clear that they, too, haven't read the entire law, even if they are considering a constitutional question that could kill the whole thing.

"I haven't read every word of that, I promise," Justice Stephen Breyer said to a lawyer arguing the case Wednesday. "So what do you propose that we do other than spend a year reading all this?"
Socialist Democracy or Constitutional Republic?