Wednesday, June 27, 2012

Media Concensus on Obamacare failing court test

The consensus of reasoned media opinions being published concerning the pending supreme court ruling this week on Obamacare, is that the court will strike it down. This piece in the Washington Post indicates Justice Roberts will write the majority opinion and if that is the case, Obamacare will fall. 

Personally, I don't see how they can leave any part of it standing. It is clearly unconstitutional and must be set aside by the court. which sets the table for an interesting reaction by the Obama administration. An administration that to date has blatantly and arrogantly ignored the law and the constitution at every opportunity.

The Supreme Court’s unusual moment in the spotlight

By , Published: June 26

Calculating who will write the final decision of the Supreme Court’s term is a game that usually interests only a small band of lawyers, professors, reporters and politicos who obsess over the justices’ every footnote.
But this year, the likelihood that Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. is preparing the court’s judgment on President Obama’s health-care overhaul is worthy of headlines and a whirl of Internet spin.
Roberts’s questions at oral arguments are being consulted, his decisions in past cases are being reviewed, and the analysis is underway about whether he is preparing a life preserver or a stake for the Affordable Care Act.
The first Monday in October and the last week of June, the bookends for each session, are always moments in the spotlight for the Supreme Court. But this is no ordinary time.

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