{"id":6237,"date":"2012-03-31T11:47:42","date_gmt":"2012-03-31T02:47:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/haakondahl.com\/blog\/?p=2705"},"modified":"2012-03-31T11:47:42","modified_gmt":"2012-03-31T02:47:42","slug":"legal-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/legal-question\/","title":{"rendered":"Legal Question"},"content":{"rendered":"

[pullquote]Sen. Kent Conrad<\/a>\u00a0(D-N.D.) called the CLASS Act “a Ponzi scheme of the first order” — WaPo 2009<\/a>[\/pullquote]If a law is made under fraudulent circumstances, is it a law? \u00a0I realize that this is ridiculously vague, and I just happen to have an example in mind — ObamaCare. \u00a0It is my understanding that (let me be brief) the Slaughter rule<\/a> was not invoked because budget-neutral reconciliation offered a way to pass the bill piecemeal, but only with the addition of the CLASS Act. \u00a0Well, the CLASS Act fell away long ago, and nobody was suroprised–it was always doomed to fail, an accounting trick designed to make the bill eligible for reconciliation rather than committee work on new bills. \u00a0Or something.<\/p>\n

I realize that the CBO sliding window<\/a> is probably not worth shooting at for now, at least ion this context. \u00a0But the use of reconciliation after so obvious a ruse of eligibility seems to me to cry out for remedy. \u00a0Would a judge anywhere have a leg to stand on to say that the law is invalid because (despite the accession of Congress at the time) the ex-post facto discovery of the farcical accounting in the CLASS Act puts the event of its passage in a new light?<\/p>\n

I say yes, that is, ObamaCare is already not a valid law. \u00a0The Supreme Court is now struggling over the law’s epitaph, not its fate.<\/p>\n

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[pullquote]Sen. Kent Conrad<\/a>\u00a0(D-N.D.) called the CLASS Act “a Ponzi scheme of the first order” — WaPo 2009<\/a>[\/pullquote]If a law is made under fraudulent circumstances, is it a law? \u00a0I realize that this is ridiculously vague, and I just happen to have an example in mind — ObamaCare. \u00a0It is my understanding that (let me be brief) the Slaughter rule<\/a> was not invoked because budget-neutral reconciliation offered a way to pass the bill piecemeal, but only with the addition of the CLASS Act. \u00a0Well, the CLASS Act fell away long ago, and nobody was suroprised–it was always doomed to fail, an accounting trick designed to make the bill eligible for reconciliation rather than committee work on new bills. \u00a0Or something.<\/p>\n

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