♫ Scalia's Dissent
Channel: Jonathan Mann
Date: 2015-06-26

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The court rewrites the law 
To make tax credits available everywhere
We should start to call
This law SCOTUScare
The next bit of interpratiove jiggery-pokery
Involves other parts of the act
That purportedly presupposes
On federal and state exchanges
The availability of credited tax

Pure applesauce
The somersaults 
of statutory interpretation 
They have performed
Will be cited
by litigants endlessly 
to the confusion of honest jurisprudence 

Pure applesauce
Jiggery pokery
Get off my lawn
Hickery-dickery
My arguments
Are ba humbuggery
Pure applesauce 
Turn down that rackety 

Hubris is defined as o’erweening pride
We move one step closer to impotence
California doesn’t count
I will hide my head in a bag
The mystical aphorisms of a fortune cookie

Our only evidence of what Congress meant 
comes from the terms of the law
Terms show beyond question
The tax credits are available on
State exchanges 

This of course ignores
All the numerous reports
On those that actually worked on the bill

Words no longer have meaning
Today’s interpretation is not just unnatural 
It’s unheard of *

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