Missed It By That Much

June 28, 2012 – 3:52 pm

Here’s more on the ACA ruling, from Daniel Foster at NRO.

From Kennedy’s dissent, joined by Scalia, Alito, and Thomas (but not Roberts!):

“In our view, the entire Act before us is invalid in its entirety.’

Posted by Malcolm on at 3:52 pm, filed under Politics. RSS feed for this post. Trackbacks are closed, but you can post a comment.

Dom says

Didn’t it start in the House? If I remember correctly, the Senate made changes so significant that it had to go back to the House, but it kinda sorta started there.

Posted June 29, 2012 at 12:31 pm | Permalink
Dom says

Oops, meant that comment for “If at first …”.

Posted June 29, 2012 at 12:32 pm | Permalink
Malcolm says

Well, there was a bill in the House, but I think the bill that actually ended up being passed originated in the Senate. But it’s a murky issue, because the identity of the legislation (in the philosophical sense) is hard to keep track of. It’s rather like the “Ship of Theseus“.

Wikipedia has a large article about the bill, here. See if you can figure it out…

Posted June 29, 2012 at 12:43 pm | Permalink
JK says

Well. If either of you can figure out where it did originate you’ll be sure to clue me in?

Looks to me the bill “as implemented” got it’s start in a Nebraska cornfield.

Posted June 29, 2012 at 2:07 pm | Permalink
TheBigHenry says

Nobody knows where it started. But it emerged from the tail-end of her alimentary canal whence, after much toil and trouble, Pelosi pulled it out with her left hand.

Posted June 29, 2012 at 9:10 pm | Permalink
Malcolm says

Thank you for that beautiful image, Henry.

Posted June 29, 2012 at 9:33 pm | Permalink

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