Supreme Court Upholds Nationwide Health Care Law Subsidies

[*michaelsean*]

(06-25-2015, 02:32 PM)Belsnickel Wrote: What you're saying only works if the federal government cannot fall under the definition of state. Which it can.

And you said ascertain the intent of congress.  Do you really believe Congress read that and said, "Oh they are talking about the federal government there as well" or do you think, as one of the writers has stated that it was purposely limited to the states?  Their intent was to force the states to join in and not have the federal government to fall back on. 

So when Democrats said it was a problem going from one draft to the other or it was sloppiness, were they lying.  Since it was intended to include states and the federal government, why would someone claim it was more like a drafting error?

The Supreme Court said not too long ago, '“This court has no roving license, in even ordinary cases of statutory interpretation, to disregard clear language simply on the view that . . . Congress ‘must have intended’ something broader.”