Political Quotes

“Mr. President, today's decision in King v. Burwell is judicial activism, plain and simple. For the second time in just a few years, a handful of unelected judges has rewritten the text of ObamaCare in order to impose that failed law upon millions of Americans. The first time, the Court ignored Federal law and magically transformed a statutory ``penalty'' into a ``tax.'' Today, these robed Houdinis have transmogrified a ``Federal exchange'' into an exchange ``established by the State.'' This is lawless. As Justice Scalia rightfully put it, ``Words no longer have meaning if an exchange that is not established by a State is `established by the State.' '' Justice Scalia continues: ``We should start calling this law SCOTUScare.'' I agree. If this were a bankruptcy case or any other case of ordinary statutory interpretation, the results would have been 9 to 0, with the Court unanimously reversing the Obama administration's illegal actions. But instead, politics intervened. For nakedly political reasons, the Supreme Court willfully ignored the words that Congress wrote, and instead read into the law their preferred policy outcome. These Justices have joined with President Obama in harming millions of Americans. Unelected judges have once again become legislators--and bad ones at that. They are lawless, and they hide their prevarication in legalese. Our government was designed to be one of laws, not of men, and this transparent distortion is disgraceful.…”