The Court's Obamacare nightmare.

• Author: Hightower, Jim
• Position: VOX POPULIST

Look out: The Supreme Court's black-robed gang of far-right ideologues are rampaging again! Their political recklessness endangers justice, the court's own integrity, and the health of millions of innocent bystanders.

In an attempt to override Obamacare, these so-called "justices" have jumped on a wagonload of legalistic BS named King v. Burwell. The case sprang from a frivolous lawsuit concocted in 2010 by a rightwing front group funded by the Koch brothers, Big Oil, Big Tobacco, and Big Pharma. The chairman of the front group was neither delicate nor discreet in describing the purpose of the lawsuit as a raw political assault on Obamacare. "This bastard has to be killed as a matter of political hygiene," he howled at the time. "I do not care how this is done, whether it's dismembered, whether we drive a stake through its heart.... I don't care who does it, whether it's some court some place, or the United States Congress."

So much for the intellectual depth of the case, which was fabricated on a twisted interpretation of only four words in the 906-page health care law. The plaintiffs claim that the law prohibits insurance subsidies to the millions of low- and middle-income Americans living in the thirty-six states that did not set up a state exchange. Their reasoning would make health care unaffordable to millions who are purchasing insurance on the federal exchange. Telling people who live in the states not setting up exchanges that they can't participate in the federal health care program essentially nullifies the heart of Obamacare.

Both the district and appeals courts rejected that perverse ideological Tommyrot. Nonetheless, the gang of Supremes grabbed the case.

The Republican judges have openly become partisans, thrusting the Supreme Court itself into the forefront of the GOP's war against Obamacare--and against President Obama himself.

We know that an anti-government group...