President Barack Obama’s remarks on health care and the Supreme Court
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Guodong Jiang
Apr 5, 2012, 6:52:49 PM4/5/12
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By Associated Press, Updated: Thursday, April 5, 4:30 PM
President Barack Obama’s remarks this week on the Supreme Court and
the legal challenge to the health care law, according to White House
transcripts:
“Ultimately, I’m confident that the Supreme Court will not take what
would be an unprecedented, extraordinary step of overturning a law
that was passed by a strong majority of a democratically elected
Congress. And I’d just remind conservative commentators that for years
what we’ve heard is, the biggest problem on the bench was judicial
activism or a lack of judicial restraint — that an unelected group of
people would somehow overturn a duly constituted and passed law. Well,
this is a good example. And I’m pretty confident that this court will
recognize that and not take that step.” — At a news conference Monday
with Mexican President Felipe Calderon and Canadian Prime Minister
Stephen Harper.
___
“Well, first of all, let me be very specific. We have not seen a court
overturn a law that was passed by Congress on a economic issue, like
health care, that I think most people would clearly consider commerce
— a law like that has not been overturned at least since Lochner.
Right? So we’re going back to the ‘30s, pre-New Deal. And the point I
was making is that the Supreme Court is the final say on our
Constitution and our laws, and all of us have to respect it, but it’s
precisely because of that extraordinary power that the court has
traditionally exercised significant restraint and deference to our
duly elected legislature, our Congress. And so the burden is on those
who would overturn a law like this. Now, as I said, I expect the
Supreme Court actually to recognize that and to abide by well-
established precedence out there. I have enormous confidence that in
looking at this law, not only is it constitutional, but that the court
is going to exercise its jurisprudence carefully because of the
profound power that our Supreme Court has. As a consequence, we’re not
spending a whole bunch of time planning for contingencies.” — In
response to a question Tuesday at the annual meeting of The Associated
Press.
Copyright 2012 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This
material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
President Barack Obama’s remarks this week on the Supreme Court and
the legal challenge to the health care law, according to White House
transcripts:
“Ultimately, I’m confident that the Supreme Court will not take what
would be an unprecedented, extraordinary step of overturning a law
that was passed by a strong majority of a democratically elected
Congress. And I’d just remind conservative commentators that for years
what we’ve heard is, the biggest problem on the bench was judicial
activism or a lack of judicial restraint — that an unelected group of
people would somehow overturn a duly constituted and passed law. Well,
this is a good example. And I’m pretty confident that this court will
recognize that and not take that step.” — At a news conference Monday
with Mexican President Felipe Calderon and Canadian Prime Minister
Stephen Harper.
___
“Well, first of all, let me be very specific. We have not seen a court
overturn a law that was passed by Congress on a economic issue, like
health care, that I think most people would clearly consider commerce
— a law like that has not been overturned at least since Lochner.
Right? So we’re going back to the ‘30s, pre-New Deal. And the point I
was making is that the Supreme Court is the final say on our
Constitution and our laws, and all of us have to respect it, but it’s
precisely because of that extraordinary power that the court has
traditionally exercised significant restraint and deference to our
duly elected legislature, our Congress. And so the burden is on those
who would overturn a law like this. Now, as I said, I expect the
Supreme Court actually to recognize that and to abide by well-
established precedence out there. I have enormous confidence that in
looking at this law, not only is it constitutional, but that the court
is going to exercise its jurisprudence carefully because of the
profound power that our Supreme Court has. As a consequence, we’re not
spending a whole bunch of time planning for contingencies.” — In
response to a question Tuesday at the annual meeting of The Associated
Press.
Copyright 2012 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This
material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
Guodong Jiang
Apr 5, 2012, 6:55:10 PM4/5/12
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Apr 5, 2012, 7:02:39 PM4/5/12
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