The Issue: Pres. Obama’s comments about how the Supreme Court should rule on his health-care law.
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President Obama should not try to coerce the Supreme Court justices on how they should vote (“High Court Crisis,” Editorial, April 4).
The Supreme Court is an equal branch of government, and the justices are entitled to vote according to their findings under the Constitution.
Obama states it would be extraordinary if ObamaCare were overturned. Could it be that the president does not know that more than 150 laws have been overturned by the Supreme Court over the years?
Most Americans are against this law, so how would it be thwarting the will of the people if it were overturned?
Ceil Coppola
Middletown
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There he goes again, our presumptuous president, stating how the justices should rule on the health-care bill, as if the balance of powers doesn’t matter.
It is precisely the Supreme Court’s function to keep the elected branches of government, the legislative and executive, in check.
Let’s pray that the justices pull through for the Constitution. If not, then it is right of the people to do so in November.
Jackie Shanahan
Valley Stream
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Obama’s sad attempt to influence and degrade the Supreme Court in order to prop up his health-care failure known as Obamacare continues to demonstrate that he remains a colossal blamer and whiner.
John Lysaght
East Meadow
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For decades, going back to the regime of Richard Nixon, Republican hacks in Congress and in the White House have criticized members of the Supreme Court as activist judges who make laws instead of interpreting them whenever they disagree with the court’s decisions.
The Post and the rest of the right-wing media have consistently joined the amen chorus of court critics.
Now Obama criticizes the court, and you criticize him. Your hypocrisy is as blatant as it is typical.
Richard Kavesh
Nyack
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The president claims his health-care law should be upheld because it had a strong majority of support in the democratically elected Congress. The only thing we know is that 100 percent of Congress didn’t read it before they voted on it.
Let’s hope the Supreme Court does the right thing and thwarts the “will” of the people who have no regard for our Constitution.
Brendan Scanlon
Manhattan
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It is almost beyond belief that the president, supposedly a constitutional-law professor, would apparently try to threaten the Supreme Court for performing its constitutional role.
If I were a member of the court, I’d be outraged. The framers purposely created the court to prevent such legislative overreach.
Perhaps the president needs to review the Constitution to recall the doctrine of separation of powers.
Peter Welch
Carmel
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It’s time for the president to call the Republicans’ bluff.
While waiting for the Supreme Court to rule, let’s ask the justices to join with the Republicans in Congress to put their money where their mouths are and demonstrate how a truly privately financed health plan would work.
Without any increase in their salaries, let them voluntarily relinquish their publicly funded health care and pay for their own insurance.
Why should they be entitled to what they don’t want the rest of us to have?
Irving Gelb
North Bergen
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Obama suggests that if the Supreme Court declares ObamaCare unconstitutional it will be “judicial activism.” This observation from a former community activist is deeply ironic.
In 2001, Obama said: “I think we can say that the Constitution reflected an enormous blind spot in this culture that carries on until this day and that the framers had that same blind spot.”
For the sake of our Constitution and our nation, I pray that at least five Supreme Court justices are “judicial activists.”
Jim Silberman
Manhattan