Accio justice.
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, upset by the court's 6-3 decision to uphold the Affordable Care Act on June 25, read aloud a dissent filled with artistic word choices, including a term used by J.K. Rowling in the Harry Potter series.
"The Court's next bit of interpretive jiggery-pokery involves other parts of the Act that purportedly presuppose the availability of tax credits on both federal and state Exchanges..." Scalia wrote, on the eighth page of his dissent.
Followers of the court's ruling were quick to point out that "jiggery-pokery" is a term used by Harry Potter in The Chamber of Secrets. Read more...
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