The 7 most 'jiggery-pokery' lines in Antonin Scalia's Obamacare dissent

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Sergio Hernandez
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U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia issued another of his signature dissents Thursday in King v. Burwell, the case which threatened to dismantle the Affordable Care Act.

While the court ruled 6–3 to uphold King and keep Obamacare intact, Scalia took the opportunity to coin a few colorful new phrases in his scathing dissent.

Below, we've used Genius to annotate the seven best lines from Scalia's dissent with reactions from Twitter and elsewhere on the web (Just click on the highlighted passages to view the annotations):

Read Justice Scalia's full dissent in King v Burwell:

Huizhong Wu contributed reporting. Images: Vicky Leta.

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