{"id":15319,"date":"2012-06-28T14:55:51","date_gmt":"2012-06-28T18:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=15319"},"modified":"2012-06-28T15:45:26","modified_gmt":"2012-06-28T19:45:26","slug":"u-s-supreme-court-upholds-presidents-health-care-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=15319","title":{"rendered":"U. S. Supreme Court Upholds Presi- dent\u2019s Health Care Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BY IRIS B. HOLTON<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> Sentinel City Editor<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On Thursday morning, in a landmark decision, members of the U. S. Supreme Court issued a ruling upholding the individual mandate and the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA). The court\u2019s decision came about in a 5-4 vote with <strong>Chief<\/strong> <strong>Justice John Roberts<\/strong> supporting the law.<\/p>\n<p>The court ruled that while the mandate is ruled unconstitutional under the Constitution\u2019s commerce clause, the law is permitted as part of Congress\u2019s power under a taxing clause.<\/p>\n<p>While the ruling was a dramatic victory for<strong> President Obama<\/strong> and his administration, it was a devastating defeat for the Republican Party who has vehemently opposed the law.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Chief Justice Roberts<\/strong> wrote in the ruling, \u201cthe Affordable Care Act\u2019s requirement that certain individuals pay a financial penalty for not obtaining health insurance may reasonably be characterized as a tax. Because the Constitution permits such a tax, it is not our role to forbid it, or to pass upon its wisdom or fairness.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Chief Justice Roberts<\/strong> was joined in the majority vote by <strong>Justices Stephen Breyer<\/strong>, <strong>Ruth Bader Ginsberg<\/strong>, <strong>Sonia Sotomayor<\/strong>, and <strong>Elena Kagan<\/strong>. The dissenting votes were casts by<strong> Justices Clarence Thomas<\/strong>, <strong>Samuel Alito<\/strong>, <strong>Antonin Scalia<\/strong>, and <strong>Anthony Kennedy<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY IRIS B. HOLTON Sentinel City Editor On Thursday morning, in a landmark decision, members of the U. S. Supreme Court issued a ruling upholding the individual mandate and the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA). The court\u2019s decision came about in a 5-4 vote with Chief Justice John Roberts supporting the law. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15319\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}