Why John Roberts Was Wrong About Healthcare

A Conservative Critique of The Supreme Court's Obamacare Ruling

Sen. Mike Lee

• Publisher: Threshold Editions
• Year: 2013
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• eBook ISBN:
  9781476740546
• Subtopic: American Government
• Index: Politics & International Relations

An original ebook from the current US senator to Utah, explaining why Chief Justice Roberts was wrong to disregard the Constitution in making his historic and controversial healthcare decision. During Chief Justice Roberts's first seven terms on the Supreme Court of the United States, he distinguished himself as a fair-minded jurist and a true constitutional scholar—a man seemingly committed to the rule of law and to core constitutional principles. That hard-earned distinction was turned on its head when, on June 28, 2012, the Chief Justice—writing for a five-to-four majority in National Federation of Independent Businesses v. Sebilius —essentially re-wrote key provisions of Obamacare in order to uphold the law, and allow it to be approved, in the face of a justified constitutional challenge. Now United States Senator Mike Lee presents a conservative critique of this controversial ruling, and explains why John Roberts in particular was wrong to vote to preserve the act. In an attempt to be perceived as fair in the mainstream media, Roberts allowed himself to be swayed by outside influences -- influences to which a Supreme Court justice is supposed to be absolutely immune. Not only that, Senator Lee explains, Roberts conceded that much of the Obamacare act was unconstitutional; yet he instructed states simply to ignore those parts, instead of recognizing that those parts made the entire act invalid. A smart, fair and evenhanded argument, Why John Roberts Was Wrong provides a definitive, concise argument against Obamacare.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Foreword: The Judgment of Solomon
• Introduction: National Federation of Independent Businesses v. Sebilius
• I. The Court’s Ruling
• II. Why the Court Was Wrong to Rewrite the Mandate as a Tax
• III. Why the Supreme Court Was Wrong to Rewrite the ACA’s Medicaid-Expansion Provisions to Save the Rest of the ACA
• IV. What Happened to Chief Justice Roberts?
• V. Where Do We Go from Here?
• Conclusion
• Copyright