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tacocat  ·  3596 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Supreme Court Rules Obamacare Subsidies Are Legal

    but they acknowledged that "petitioners' arguments about the plain meaning ... are strong."

The fuck they were. The whole case is based on a semantic technicality from a single line in the bill. The fact that some conservative lawyers poring over a law to find a loophole brought their case to the Supreme Court is embarrassing. At least this should get the republicans and activists to find a better rallying cry against Obama than he tried to help sick people not die