Gosh, I haven't seen conservatives this mad at the Supreme Court since Brown v. Board of Education.
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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.
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Steve Benen on the scary part of today's Supreme Court ruling: And yet, as of this morning, four justices -- Alito, Kennedy, Scalia, and Thomas -- insisted on doing exactly that. The four dissenters demanded that the Supreme Court effectively throw out the entirety of...
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.
CNN, why do you still exist? Your ratings are garbage and rotting daily. You don't represent any constituency except for Beltway elites. You cover up for shoddy reporting and hackish.
I'll have a piece up shortly at Salon about why it's basically nuts that John Roberts gets to decide what sort of health care system America has. It quotes a good point made by Richard Posner earlier this week in the context of the life...
Not that we should be surprised that Jim DeMint is calling for nullification of the health care law. “I urge every governor to stop implementing the health care exchanges 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.
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 I'm understanding Howe correctly, decision was 5-4 -- Kennedy dissented. Wow. ...now I wonder 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.
Yet again, the Republicans roll back a piece of the 20th century. Congress agreed to freeze student loan rates for a year. At first, I figured, whatever, typical kicking the.