Today, the Supreme Court ruled that notwithstanding the plain language of the law and the intent of Congress, low-income insurance buyers will receive federal subsidies in all states, including those in which the exchange was not established by the state. Justice Scalia’s dissent, excerpted below (with a link to the majority opinion and the full dissent), blows holes in the Alice-in-Wonderland reasoning of the majority of the Court. What it cannot do is address the standing of what is sometimes referred to as “The Law In All Its Majesty.” When words no longer mean what they say, there is no majesty remaining in the law, only the subjective whim of our rulers, which elicits nothing but scorn and contempt. If unelected bureaucrats at the IRS can invalidate a provision in a law duly passed by elected representatives and signed by an elected President, and then have that invalidation blessed by an unelected Supreme Court, then the system of government envisioned in the Constitution, long in extremis, is dead.

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