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Execrable ObamaCare Ruling Offers Important Corrective for Conservatives and Libertarians

By Timothy H. Lee
Thursday, June 25 2015

This week, Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Anthony Kennedy paradoxically discredited a Supreme Court whose legacy and popular standing they appear so desperate to sustain. In King v. Burwell, they joined the Court's four leftists in preserving federal ObamaCare subsidies despite the law's plain text that only states opting to participate in its schemes were eligible. In the words of dissenting Justice Antonin Scalia, "Words no longer have meaning." Foregoing the more common "I respectfully dissent," Scalia simply said "I dissent" in his unusually…

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