The Secret Plan of the Supreme Court

The nine Supreme Court justices just held a three-day hearing to decide if the law making it mandatory for every American to have health insurance is constitutional. However, these debates are hiding something else. First of all, the idea for this Affordable Care Act was designed by the Heritage Foundation, a very conservative think tank. It was tested and implemented by Mitt Romney when he was governor of Massachusetts. However, he is now trying to make everyone believe that his law had nothing in common with “Obamacare.”

Mandating every resident in the United States to have health insurance was intended to remedy the problem of the uninsured (read: foreigners and the poor) taking advantage of the American health system. How ironic! The fact that 26 states (including 25 states run by Republican governors) and a coalition of extremely conservative groups (including the Thomas More Law Center (which presents itself as the Christian counterpart to the American Civil Liberties Union, an organization that defends freedom of speech) and even the famous Jerry Falwell University, which was founded by the reactionary Jerry Falwell) are presenting this case before the Supreme Court proves that something else is at stake here.

The Supreme Court’s taking over this case reveals the extraordinary political activism of this court, where not only John C. Roberts (the chief justice who was appointed by George W. Bush) sits, but also Clarence Thomas. The fact that Thomas sits in this august assembly is already unbelievable. Indeed, Thomas and his allies would deny both the government and Congress the ability to expand the role of government. Clarence Thomas does not care that 62 percent of bankruptcy cases in the United States are related to medical care issues.

Virginia Thomas, the wife of the mediocre justice accused of sexual harassment during his Senate confirmation hearing, is a political activist at war with the government. She created a political action committee called Liberty Central to finance a group opposing the law on health care reform. The worst is that Supreme Court Justice Thomas did not have the decency of avoiding his wife’s meetings. Such a clear lack of judgment, not to say morality, should disqualify Thomas from participating in the current debates held before the court. However, the idea did not even cross his mind because he himself is at war with the government that he is supposed to protect.

According to Patricia J. Williams, a law professor at Columbia University, if the court rules that the health insurance law is unconstitutional, it will actually threaten an entire series of essential laws: the law establishing social security, the one defining the standards for air pollution, the one on pay equity, even anti-trust laws, all the way up to the civil rights laws. The Supreme Court has engaged in a fight against the very foundations of American society. This is the return of McCarthyism in disguise.