The Supreme Court will consider Obamacare's constitutionality — and the outcome could bring 'total chaos'
March 2, 2020
https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/supreme-court-obamacares-constitutionality-223148053.html
The Supreme Court has agreed to hear an appeal case on the Affordable Care Act (ACA), commonly known as Obamacare, that could potentially invalidate the entire law.
On Dec. 15, 2018, a Texas judge ruled that Obamacare’s individual mandate was unconstitutional. Judge Reed O’Connor agreed with the plaintiffs who argued that the lack of a penalty invalidated the “individual mandate” provision of the law, and if that part of the law was now invalid, then the whole law was.
Democratic states and the House of Representatives appealed the decision, and the case made it all the way up to the Supreme Court in a case titled California v. Texas. If the conservative-majority justices find the individual mandate unconstitutional in the June 2021 ruling, that could mean all of the ACA is unconstitutional. (continued at link)
The ACA/Obamacare, H.R. 3590, should be declared wholly Unconstitutional because it violated a clear and basic rule of the US Constitution.
Article 1, Section 7. Clause 1 “Origination Clause”
“All Bills for raising Revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives; but the Senate may propose or concur with Amendments as on other Bills.”
H.R. 3590 originated in the House Sept 17, 2009, as “Service Members Home Ownership Tax Act of 2009” and passed the House Oct 8, 2009, 416-0. The bill “enacting clause” stated:
“To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify the first-time homebuyers credit in the case of members of the Armed Forces and certain other Federal employees, and for other purposes.”
The Senate under Reid and Baucus amended the bill on Nov 17, 2009, by replacing the entire text (except title) with the Obamacare bill. S. Amend 2786 passed Nov 19 and stated:
“Strike all after the enacting clause and insert the following:” which was the Obamacare bill text.
The Senate knew the Obamacare had revenue provisions by retaining the title and enacting clause. They knew the bill would not readily pass in the House. This allowed the House time to coerce and unduly influence members so the bill would pass when returned from the Senate. Because the text of the bill was replaced, the revenue bill originally passed in the House no longer existed, only the bill number and name. This is a blatant violation of the intent of the US Constitution by using the amendment provision.
The H.R. 3590 bill title and enacting clause were then amended Dec 24, 2009, to change the title and the enacting clause and passed 60-39:
In the Senate of the United States,
December 24, 2009.
Resolved, That the bill from the House of Representatives (H.R. 3590) entitled ‘An Act to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify the first-time homebuyers credit in the case of members of the Armed Forces and certain other Federal employees, and for other purposes.’, do pass with the following
AMENDMENTS:
Strike all after the enacting clause and insert the following:
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS.
(a) Short Title- This Act may be cited as the ‘Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act’.
The corrupted bill of revenue whose text originate solely in the Senate was then returned to the House for vote on the amendments. The only thing that remained of the revenue bill “Service Members Home Ownership Tax Act of 2009” (passed 416-0) was the bill number. Final passage in the House was Mar 21, 2010 with a concurring to the amendments vote 219-212. The bill in violation of Article 1, Section 7, Clause 1 was signed into law March 23, 2010, Pub. Law 111-148.
Later “Chief Justice” Roberts ruled the provisions of the bill were Constitutional. Because the bill was a whole was Unconstitutional, Roberts deserves to be tried for his Act of Treason.
Bill H.R. 3590 links:
Sept 17, 2009 (Introduced)
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/111/hr3590/text/ih
https://www.congress.gov/bill/111th-congress/house-bill/3590/summary/00
Nov 19, 2009 (Amendment) Vote: 60 - 39
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/111/hr3590/text/as
Mar 23, 2010 (Signed into Public Law111-148)
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/111/hr3590/text/eh
https://www.congress.gov/bill/111th-congress/house-bill/3590/summary/49