…about a pending SCOTUS decision since Bush v. Gore. And back then I was on the other side. [ADDENDUM: It occurs to me that I need to explain why I feel this degree of nervousness. It’s not about Obamacare, although … Continue reading →
…Citizens United was affirmed. Here are some more predictions about what will happen in the HCR ruling. Glenn Reynolds opines on the recent Democratic drive to pre-emptively delegitimize SCOTUS, in case it rules against them in the Obamacare case.
Continue reading →…for what it’s worth, I’m made uneasy by all the assumptions that SCOTUS will declare the individual mandate unconstitutional when it issues its ruling. Maybe it’s just my tendency towards brooding, but even though I don’t usually make predictions I’ll … Continue reading →
Ten things you would miss if Obamacare were to be overruled by SCOTUS. So why would anyone but a meanie want to take away all that nice free coverage? Take a look at the comments section. A significant number of … Continue reading →
Not yet, but soon, the Supreme Court finally will be issuing its long-awaited ruling on HCR. When? By the end of the month, and speculation abounds. I won’t even try to predict what will happen; I’ve discussed the legal issues … Continue reading →
I was starting to write a post about this Ed Koch endorsement of Obama. My plan was to point out what the piece said about Romney’s positions vs. his actual stated positions, highlighting the sometimes subtle and sometimes not-so-subtle distortions … Continue reading →
[NOTE: Bumped up. Scroll down for new posts.] My new article is up at PJ. I urge you to go there and read it. Not just because I wrote it, but because I think it deals with something vitally important: … Continue reading →
President Obama must have really overstepped yesterday when he warned the Supreme Court justices against ruling Obamacare unconstitutional. How do I know? WaPo columnist Ruth Marcus is criticizing him for his remarks. What caused her to take this enormous step, … Continue reading →
…on what the meaning of “strong” is. Obama warns the Supremes about overturning HCR [emphasis mine]: “Ultimately I am confident that the Supreme Court will not take what would be an unprecedented extraordinary step of overturning a law that was … Continue reading →
So much praise has been heaped on Paul Clement, lawyer for the Obamacare opposition, that it made me wonder about him—just who he was and what he was doing before this particular case came his way. Clement’s got a lengthy … Continue reading →
The latest liberal meme is that if the Court rules against Obamacare it will be such an egregious case of conservative judicial activism that the Court will become illegitimate. My question is: to whom? The 72% of the American public … Continue reading →
Jonathan Adler asks the question: why did legal elites underestimate the case against the mandate? You might want to give quick and flippant answers—such as, for instance, “because they’re stupid and biased”—but that really doesn’t tell us much. Legal elites … Continue reading →