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News flash: Al Gore still trying to get everybody to panic
Relentless
Federal appeals court rules Obama’s Labor Relations Board non-recess recess appointments were illegal
Limits
Robert Bork, R.I.P.
Judge Robert Bork, former Supreme Court nominee, legal scholar, and the conservative movement’s champion of originalism, died early this morning after a long battle with heart and pulmonary complications. His family reports that the funeral will be held on Saturday. Bork endured one of the most vicious, coordinated attacks from the Left during his Reagan-era […]
List of those claiming Obamacare mandate isn’t a tax becomes a bipartisan affair
Predicaments
Obamacare Judgment Day: SCOTUS-watch open thread; Update: Mandate upheld as a tax, rest of law upheld almost in its entirety — Roberts joins left of the court
Which way?
SCOTUS watch: Decision week for Obamacare, Arizona immigration law, and more; Update: Part of Arizona immigration law upheld; Obamacare decision coming Thursday
All eyes
With fate of Obamacare in question, HHS cranks up pace of spending to implement the law
“Faster! SCOTUS is coming!”
Supreme Court rules against SEIU
**Written by Doug Powers There will be no ruling on Obamacare or the Arizona immigration law today, but that doesn’t mean there wasn’t any SCOTUS-related news. This morning, Big Labor’s already bad year took another hit: The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that unions must give nonmembers an immediate chance to object to unexpected fee increases […]
New York Times/CBS poll: Obamacare definitely not getting any more popular
**Written by Doug Powers It’s looking like the Supreme Court would be doing Obama re-election hopes a favor by flushing this thing down, even though Nancy Pelosi’s constitutional expertise leads her to believe it will be upheld 6-3. From the New York Times: More than two-thirds of Americans hope the Supreme Court will overturn some […]
White House to SCOTUS: ‘Extraordinary disruptions’ to Medicare if Obamacare struck down
**Written by Doug Powers “Don’t overturn the health care law or else _____ will happen” part deux: Medicare’s payment system, the unseen but vital network that handles 100 million monthly claims, could freeze if President Barack Obama’s health care law is summarily overturned, the administration quietly informed the courts. Although Obama’s overhaul made significant cuts […]
Obamacare arguments, day 3 open thread: Fate of the mandate; Updated
**Written by Doug Powers If the SCOTUS strikes down the individual mandate, does the entire health care law get tossed in its entirety, or just the mandate part? That’s what this morning’s arguments at the Supreme Court revolved around. The afternoon session will hear a challenge against an expansion to Medicaid, which states are saying […]
Obamacare arguments, day 2: ‘Train wreck for the Obama administration’
Derailing?
Pelosi Celebrates 2 Year Anniversary of Health Care Law That ‘Honored Vows of Our Founders’
Constitutional Scholar
SCOTUS: No Live TV for Obamacare Arguments
**Written by Doug Powers Alternate headline: Ruth Bader Ginsburg not ready for her close-up: The Supreme Court rejected requests from news organizations Friday for live, televised coverage of this month’s historic arguments on President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul, but agreed to release audio recordings of the proceedings on the same day. [...] The justices […]
NYT: White House Organizing Prayer Vigil Outside Supreme Court During Hearing on Obamacare
**Written by Doug Powers Well, Congress passed the health care law, and contrary to Nancy Pelosi’s assurances, Kathleen Sebelius still doesn’t know what’s in it. That, however, isn’t delaying Obamacare’s expected arrival at the Supreme Court, where Team Obama will pull out all the stops. From the New York Times: The White House has begun […]
Supreme Court to Decide Arizona Immigration Law
Kagan recuses
Nancy Pelosi: The Obamacare SCOTUS Arguments Should Be Transparent (Now That the Bill Has Been Written, Passed and Implemented)
**Written by Doug Powers Tuesday, as Michelle noted, C-Span asked the Supreme Court to allow their cameras to televise oral arguments when the Court hears the Obamacare law case next spring. Nancy Pelosi agrees: House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Wednesday that Supreme Court arguments over President Obama’s healthcare law should be televised. “When […]
Document drop: C-SPAN asks Supreme Court to open Obamacare oral arguments to cameras
Just in from C-SPAN: A request to Chief Justice John Roberts to allow camera coverage of the Obamacare oral arguments next spring. They’ve been stubbornly opposed to sunlight, but it’s worth a try: SCOTUS Healthcare TV Coverage
Obamacare Arrives at the Supreme Court; Update: Court Announces They’ll Hear Case This Term
Final destination
Indiana Supreme Court: Resisting an Unlawful Entry Into Your Home is… Unlawful
**Written by Doug Powers The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things […]
White House Tells Supreme Court to Stay Away from Obamacare
**Written by Doug Powers Senator Schumer is pretty sure that the Supreme Court is not one of the equal but separate branches of government, so as such it’s possible that Chuck’s advised the White House that they have the power to tell the Supreme Court what to do: The Obama administration told the Supreme Court […]
Obama’s radical judicial nominees are back
President Obama just can’t let go of far Left San Francisco liberals out of touch with mainstream America — and the law. After dropping two controversial Bay Area judicial nominees from his slate before Christmas, Obama has resurrected the bids of 9th Circuit nominee Goodwin Liu and US Magistrate and ethnic-card jurist Edward Chen and […]
Why Liberals and the Supreme Court are a Dangerous Mix, Part XXXVII
**Written by Doug Powers Is burning the Koran something protected by the First Amendment? Supreme Court Justice Breyer told George Stephanopoulos that it might not be, claiming it could be akin to yelling “fire” in a crowded theater — which to me is a bogus argument, provided the book wasn’t set ablaze in a crowded […]
Who Inspired Lindsey Graham to Vote for Elena Kagan’s Confirmation? Why, Jesus, of Course!
**Written by Doug Powers There’s soon to be an entire wing in the Nancy Pelosi Hall of Ecclesiastical Shame dedicated to Lindsey Graham: (CNSNews.com) – Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina said that Jesus’s Golden Rule inspired him to vote to confirm Elena Kagan to the U.S. Supreme Court and suggested it would be […]
Kagan confirmed under stormy skies in D.C.; Franken apologizes to McConnell for clowning around
Obama Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan was confirmed by the Senate this afternoon. USA Today breaks the vote down: Only five Republicans voted in favor of Kagan’s nomination. Last year, just nine Republicans voted for Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Obama’s first Supreme Court appointee. Today’s yes votes included Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., the lone Republican on […]
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