Scalia fumes: Let’s start calling Obamacare ‘SCOTUScare’

Published June 25, 2015 2:42pm ET



Justice Antonin Scalia, in a scathing dissent, chastised his colleagues for a “quite absurd” decision upholding Obamacare’s federal exchange subsidies, arguing that they disregarded the plain meaning of the law — effectively rewriting it in order to save it from itself.

“We should start calling this law SCOTUScare,” Scalia said, in a dissent joined by Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito.

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