1.0PNHPhttps://pnhp.orgpnhpf3ahttps://pnhp.org/author/pnhpf3a/Does Justice Scalia’s dissent help us understand political polarization in the U.S.? - PNHPrich600338<blockquote class="wp-embedded-content"><a href="https://pnhp.org/news/does-justice-scalias-dissent-help-us-understand-political-polarization-in-the-u-s/">Does Justice Scalia’s dissent help us understand political polarization in the U.S.?</a></blockquote>
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</script><iframe sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://pnhp.org/news/does-justice-scalias-dissent-help-us-understand-political-polarization-in-the-u-s/embed/" width="600" height="338" title="“Does Justice Scalia’s dissent help us understand political polarization in the U.S.?” — PNHP" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe>Justice Scalia, dissentingSupreme Court of the United States, No. 14-114, King v. Burwell(The following paragraphs are not in continuity in the dissent.)Faced with overwhelming confirmation that “Exchange established by the State” means what it looks like it means, the Court comes up with argument after feeble argument to support its contrary interpretation. None of its tries comes close to establishing the implausible conclusion that Congress used “by the State” to mean “by the State or not by the State.”In his dissent, Justice Antonin Scalia placed the importance of a negligible textual drafting error over the importance of the clear intent of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) to expand health care coverage to more people while trying to keep insurance affordable. With a full reading of both the majority opinion and Scalia’s dissent, it is clear that Justice Scalia’s opposition was based on ideology, with only token references to law.