The Wall Street Journal’s editorial today takes Democrats and their friends in the media to task for their attempts to intimidate the Supreme Court and Chief Justice John Roberts before they rule on Obamacare. According to the article, Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) went so far as to send a warning from the Senate floor,...
The folks in the Obama administration must not be feeling very confident about Obamacare’s fate in the hands of the Supreme Court. So now they’re sending letters to the Court with arguments they failed to raise during oral arguments. Ben Shapiro at Big Government: The Obama administration warned the Supreme Court this week via...
Arguments were heard today in the Supreme Court in the lawsuit the Obama administration brought against the state of Arizona’s immigration law. It looks like the administration’s lawyer had another bad day. According to The Washington Times, he appeared to have trouble with even the liberal justices. Solicitor General Donald B. Verrilli Jr. said...
The following is a guest post by Joseph Hall. *** Obama Stirs up Firestorm with Bellicose Attack on SCOTUS It’s time for some political smack-down, and President Obama’s direct attacks on SCOTUS yesterday have garnered a quick response by the federal judiciary. This just out from CBS.com, “Appeals court fires back at Obama’s comments...
The following is a guest post by Joseph Hall. *** Obama Goes all Alinsky on SCOTUS: Channels FDR’s Outrage over Court’s Power Obama has once again displayed his utter contempt for the US Constitution and his penchant for using veiled threats to convey his message of scorn for SCOTUS. His remarks reveal his radical...
For a Supreme Court Justice, Sonya Sotomayor is shockingly uninformed about health care in the United States. Jason Lee picked up on a pretty stupid question she asked during ObamaCare oral arguments. The liberal Supreme Court justices have demonstrated profound and shocking ignorance of the American health care system. Here’s one of the most jarring examples: “What...
Dr. Robert Owens: In the face of the ever expanding power of the central government often the Supreme Court appears to be our last line of defense. But where does the Supreme Court get its power?
Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer really went out on a limb during the ObamaCare arguments to make the government’s case for it. On the question of whether Congress can compel Americans to buy computers, cell phones or burials, Breyer said “Of course they could” and went to on to explain how that would be...
I don’t care who you are, you have to have at least a little bit of empathy for US Solicitor General Donald Verrilli. He’s tasked with defending Obamacare before the Supreme Court. It would be like trying to convince someone with an intact sense of smell that a fresh pile of dog doo doesn’t...
The Supreme Court Justices all seem to agree on one thing when it comes to ObamaCare – they don’t want to read the 2,700 page piece of legislation. Justice Scalia went as far as to refer to it as cruel and unusual punishment. Three days into oral arguments over President Barack Obama’s health care...
The Wall Street Journal reported that the liberal Supreme Court Justices spent this morning trying to “protect” ObamaCare. The Supreme Court’s liberal justices went head to head with the court’s conservatives Wednesday in an effort to protect the Obama administration’s health law, suggesting in their questions that most of the measure should be kept...
The Wall Street Journal summarized yesterday’s proceedings before the Supreme Court, and how it was a bad day for ObamaCare. The Journal is not the first to point out that Justices Kennedy and Scalia, and Chief Justice John Roberts are considered by most Court watchers to be possible swing votes in this case. Solicitor...
According to The Hill, legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin called day two of Obamacare oral arguments before the Supreme Court a “train wreck” for the Obama administration. He also said he believes the law is in “grave, grave trouble,” even after he previously predicted the law would be upheld. Jeffrey Toobin, a lawyer and legal...
The Obama administration is trying to have it both ways on the question of whether the fine for failing to purchase health insurance is a penalty or a tax. When the bill was being debated, the Democrats vehemently denied it was a tax, because that was politically unpopular. Now the lawyers for the administration...
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