Former Reagan Solicitor General Charles Fried offers a reminder that there is of course already a limiting principle in Commerce Clause jurisprudence.
Here’s the audio to Part I of today’s Supreme Court oral argument on health care reform.
A reminder that predicting SCOTUS decisions based on oral arguments is fraught with peril.
It’s worth noting that the upshot of the anti-mandate arguments being made before the Court this week is that a broadly market based approach like the Romney-Obama model is unconstitutional; but single payer would be constitutional. Read More
Kadima, the centrist Israeli political party Ariel Sharon founded just before his debilitating stroke in 2006, has rejected its current leader Tzipi Livni in favor of former IDF Chief of Staff and Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz. Kadima is sort of the opposition party but so much has happened since the last election that that label may be slightly misleading since more clearly left-leaning Labor and Meretz seem to be gaining ground at Kadima’s expense.
Notably, Mofaz, who is more hawkish and right-leaning than Livni, was born in Tehran. His family immigrated to Israel in 1957.
What is California Democratic campaign treasurer Kinde Durkee alleged to have purchased with some of the more than $7 million stolen from her clients? Ice cream.
Fresh off peppering his morning comments with political slogans like the “cornhusker kickback”, Justice Scalia this afternoon took to hammering the current unpopularity of the individual mandate and his belief it couldn’t pass Congress again.
Dems warn of ‘grave damage’ to SCOTUS if the Justices strike down health care reform.