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Louie Gohmert: “Yesterday, I went over and heard the audio as the argument before the Supreme Court was taking place. It was shocking to…”

On the recordMarch 26, 2014
Yesterday, I went over and heard the audio as the argument before the Supreme Court was taking place. It was shocking to hear a Supreme Court Justice ask Paul Clement why his client didn't just pay the tax and then they could have their religious ideas and religious beliefs. Of course, he called it a penalty, as the statute called it. She said: Well, the legislation called it a tax. She didn't even know that the majority opinion said on page 15 that it is a penalty because Congress called it a penalty. Forty pages later, the majority called it a tax so they could uphold it. Outrageous. Pay your religion tax, and then you can have your religious beliefs in America. Where is it going to stop if we don't stop it now? ____________________
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Louie Gohmert
Republican · Texas
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Mar 26, 2014

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