GOP Wants To Eradicate Obamacare From (Legal) History Books

The inmates are running the asylum. In their apparent demented desire to expunge everything Obama, they are not only going to repeal Obamacare but they are going to order the Supreme Court to ignore the fact that it ever existed. Steve King, one of a number of lunatics Republicans seem to find in Iowa, has proposed a bill that would bar the Supreme Court from using any Obamacare-related decisions “from citation for the purpose of precedence in all future cases”. Now, you might think that a bill like that would violate the constitutional separation of powers. You would be wrong but, on the other hand, it probably wouldn’t even matter to King and his fellow Republicans if you were right. King relies on Article 3, Section 2 of the Constitution which says, “In all the other Cases before mentioned, the supreme Court shall have appellate Jurisdiction, both as to Law and Fact, with such Exceptions, and under such Regulations as the Congress shall make.”

According to King, passing this bill is important to ensure that “we will be truly eradicating this unconstitutional policy from all three branches of government so that the repeal will be complete.” Of course, many of the cases King does not want SCOTUS to cite actually reinforce many of the things that King believes in. Those cases supported states’ rights, limited judicial deference to federal agencies, and even broke new ground in expanding the concept of religious liberty. None of that matters to King in his quest to eradicate Obamacare from the face of the planet.