The House holds Eric Holder in contempt of Congress; Democrats walk out.
Photo of the scene at the Capitol from our Ryan Reilly.
The House is currently voting to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress.
This point hadn’t really sunk in to me. But it did click pretty quickly with TPM Reader SR. From the start, Mitt Romney has faced the problem that his party is doggedly opposed to a policy that he originated (or was at least the first to enact). To square the circle he said the policy was awesome but it was only acceptable at the state and not the federal level — because it violated the constitution. Fair enough in structural terms if not quite true. But now the Court has knocked that stool right out from under him.
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Republicans quickly grabbed on to today’s Supreme Court ruling that the individual mandate is an exercise of the taxing power to claim President Obama broke his promise in 2009 not to raise taxes. As Brian Beutler explains, there’s the political dimension to this argument and the legal dimension — and they are not in perfect alignment.
A short while ago we saw CNN run a breaking headline chyron about some new news they’d dug up. It turns out John Roberts gave a clue to his ruling during the hearings themselves. Right, what our Brian Beutler presciently reported at the time.
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The complete statement from President Obama in response to today’s Court decision:
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The complete midday statement from Mitt Romney in response to today’s Court decision: Read More
Like the rest of us, President Obama saw the erroneous reports of the Supreme Court’s decision first.