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In reply to the discussion: There is not one thing surprising about C.J. Roberts' vote in King v. Burwell. Nothing. [View all]Cali_Democrat
(30,439 posts)13. Bernie supported the ACA...he voted for it...
So you're saying Bernie's vote for the ACA allowed Big Pharma and Big Insurance to rob the people blind.
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There is not one thing surprising about C.J. Roberts' vote in King v. Burwell. Nothing. [View all]
hifiguy
Jun 2015
OP
But he started talking about the poor and the need to take care of all
ChairmanAgnostic
Jun 2015
#12
Yeah, but Scalia is Catholic, too. I think what is more likely is that Scalia's obnoxious,
pnwmom
Jun 2015
#18
And meanwhile, there are the eminently reasonable Ginsburg, Sotomayor, and Kagan.
pnwmom
Jun 2015
#28
He's the Chief. Chiefs have a somewhat different set of institutional priorities
hifiguy
Jun 2015
#6
He didn't have anything else to vote for and it has done a lot of good for some people.
hifiguy
Jun 2015
#14
It's fun to watch alleged Bernie supporters twist themselves into pretzels
Cali_Democrat
Jun 2015
#15
The subject of your OP was the recent supreme court decision upholding ACA
Cali_Democrat
Jun 2015
#24
So if Bernie becomes president, the time to turn on single payer is when a right wing justice
cascadiance
Jun 2015
#27
Roberts is not a knee-jerk right-winger in the same way as Fat Tony
The Velveteen Ocelot
Jun 2015
#31
No he isn't. That doesn't mean he isn't conservative, but he tries base his decisions what he
still_one
Jun 2015
#42
I wish I had known what you wrote about before I wrote my OP early this afternoon.
hifiguy
Jun 2015
#44
you sound disappointed that it was upheld. The reason was very specific. You cannot take 4 words
still_one
Jun 2015
#37
I agree it has quite a lot of problems, but I just don't agree that Robert's vote was because it
still_one
Jun 2015
#46