Court Ensures ObamaCare Debate Is Just Getting Started
Even amid a spate of bad news about their Senate candidate’s chances in November, Democrats have been celebrating the way ObamaCare seems to have fallen off the country’s political radar recently....
View ArticleThe GOP’s Gay Marriage Dilemma
The reaction to yesterday’s U.S. Supreme Court decision not to hear challenges to lower court rulings invalidating gay marriage bans in various states provided some insight on the cultural shift inside...
View ArticleAn Unbalanced View of the Zivotofsky Case
In today’s Wall Street Journal, David B. Rivkin Jr. and Lee A. Casey – who served in the Justice Department and the White House Counsel’s office during the Reagan and George H. W. Bush administrations...
View ArticleSCOTUS and ObamaCare: Round Two
The Supreme Court today granted certiorari in the case of King v. Burwell, in which several senators and congressmen and an assortment of non-governmental organizations such as the Cato Institute and...
View ArticleObamaCare: Live by a Typo. Die By It.
New York Times columnist Paul Krugman thinks it’s outrageous. The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to hear King v. Burwell, the case in which the state of Oklahoma, joined by numerous other groups,...
View ArticleDon’t Underestimate Gruber’s OCare Impact
Liberals are in retreat this week as they recover not only from the historic defeat suffered by Democrats in last week’s midterms but also from the fallout from Jonathan Gruber’s confessions about the...
View ArticleObamaCare, SCOTUS and the Constitution
Yesterday’s Supreme Court hearing on the King v. Burwell challenge to ObamaCare produced a lot of the usual tealeaf reading from SCOTUS watchers. Most of those who commented on the proceedings...
View ArticleWait Until 2017? ObamaCare Likely to Live Forever Now
Just as he did three years ago in the original case affirming the constitutionality of President Obama’s signature health care legislation, Chief Justice John Roberts found a way to avoid having the...
View ArticleWhat Can Conservatives Do About the Gay Marriage Decision?
In the wake of Friday’s decision by the U.S. Supreme Court to recognize same-sex marriage as a constitutionally protected right, a lot of conservatives are fumbling for an effective response. So far,...
View ArticleLiberal Gerrymander Myth Will Be Exposed
In yet another instance of the U.S. Supreme Court twisting the plain meaning of the words of the Constitution, a 5-4 majority ruled that states could bypass their legislatures to create commissions to...
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