I have more on the revelations about Roberts's switch. Among other things, I note that the story that some of the leaking justices/clerks want to tell -- about Roberts being "bullied" by the mean liberal media -- doesn't make any sense: The other key question...
Author: Scott Lemieux
Gov. Luthor turns down the Medicaid money. To be clear, Scott's position is that poor people should be stricken with debilitating illnesses and in some cases die unnecessarily because he.
Doubling down on her contrarian take on the Supreme Court and the PPACA, Marcia Angell provides as undiluted a version of the BULLY PULPIT fallacy as we're likely to see:.
Jan Crawford has reporting that confirms what one could infer from the opinions -- Roberts switched: Chief Justice John Roberts initially sided with the Supreme Court's four conservative justices to strike down the heart of President Obama's health care reform law, the Affordable Care Act,...
Bill Scher has an important article distinguishing the fantasy FDR and LBJ from the real ones: The necessity of corporate support for, or at least acquiescence to, liberal policies is.
For those who want some mobile Lemieux analysis, I'm on the Prospect podcast with the great Jamelle Bouie, Jaime Fuller, and Patrick Caldwell. While in both the podcast and my.
It's time for conservatives (and worried liberals) to play the "how a loss is really a win" game (and I have to say I like the shoe much better on this foot.) The hot contrarian argument is that yesterday was actually a big win for...
I have a piece up about the surprising fact that Roberts, not Kennedy, was the swing vote. (Although I should note that Adam called it.) While today's decision was a.
Even beyond the delightful, subtle skewering of Scalia's hackery, Ginsburg's concurrence is a tour de force. Among many other great points, she completely destroys the broccoli mandate argument: Maintaining that.
As mentioned below, the four dissenters to today's health care ruling issued an unusual jointly signed opinion of quite remarkable radicalism. It would have radically re-shaped the constitutional order by not merely ruling the individual mandate as beyond the power of the federal government to...
Mandate upheld as a tax. Wow. Political in its own way, but I'll take it. Roberts joins the majority. ...Medicaid provision "limited but not voided." That doesn't sound good. ...If.
As we get ready for tomorrow's decision, I think it's good to be aware of what legal standard Antonin Scalia will be using to decides the case. The best way.