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| Ryan Lizza | Disturbing: How Prosecutors Fought to Keep Rosen’s Warrant Secret |
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| NJ Online | Ick: Rubbing alcohol as scotch? N.J. officials release details of ‘Operation Swill’ |
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Heh. Via the Sacramento Bee: The look on Obama’s face as he looks at Biden is intriguing. Gotta wonder what he’s thinking there. And for extra laughs from the VP on a day where conservatives weren’t laughing much at all, there is this: “I’m proud to be president of the United States, but I am [...]
Via Todd Starnes: The owners of Hobby Lobby face $1.3 million in daily fines after they decided to obey God rather than the federal government – refusing to comply with Obamacare’s contraception mandate. The act of defiance came one day after Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor denied Hobby Lobby’s emergency request to block enforcement of [...]
**Posted by Phineas Via the Washington Examiner’s Byron York: In an interview on CNN Thursday morning, Obama campaign spokesman Ben LaBolt said that President Obama disagrees with the Supreme Court’s ruling that the individual mandate in Obamacare is a tax. Anchor Soledad O’Brien asked LaBolt: “His spokesman…said it’s a penalty. The Supreme Court has said [...]
**Posted by Phineas There had been speculation in the wake of last week’s surprising Supreme Court ruling in Sebelius (the ObamaCare case) that the joint, scathing dissent had originally been the majority opinion, but that Chief Justice Roberts then changed his mind and upheld the statute by effectively rewriting it as a tax. Now, apparently, we have [...]
George Mason University law professor Ilya Somin writes today at the SCOTUSblog about yesterday’s stunning decision by the SCOTUS to uphold the ACA, the good, the bad, the ugly – and what it means for the future: Overall, the Chief Justice endorsed the central arguments of the plaintiffs, as has a majority of the Court. [...]
**Posted by Phineas Okay, fine. The Supreme Court has ruled (1) ObamaCare to be constitutional, even if it had to do so in a bizarre manner by declaring the mandate a tax and thus within Congress’ taxation powers, even though the government never made that argument and President Obama swore up and down it wasn’t [...]
Great term by @AlexMarlow. Chief Justice Roberts saves the day … for the Obama administration. Read more here. And do I have confidence that Romney will repeal this monstrosity if he becomes President. No. I do not. #Numb
Are you ready, peeps? The moment we’ve been waiting for: 10 a.m. ET today. Fox News reports on the various scenarios that could play out today at the SCOTUS: The Supreme Court could uphold the entire law or could strike down the entire law. In between those two extremes, the court could also rule that [...]
Fox News reports that both sides are bracing, and are preparing responses in advance of the ruling: Republicans and Democrats are girding for a politically explosive week as the Supreme Court prepares to rule as early as Monday on the federal health care overhaul. The ruling, as campaign advisers are well aware, has the potential [...]
Literally laughing out loud. From today’s WH press briefing with Jay Carney: Henry: The president is a former constitutional law professor. One of his professors is Laurence Tribe. He now says, in his words, the president “obviously misspoke earlier this week”, quote “he didn’t say what he meant and having said that in order to [...]