BOOK: SCALIA ’ENRAGED’ AT ROBERTS SWITCH

Sep 15, 12 BOOK: SCALIA ’ENRAGED’ AT ROBERTS SWITCH

Posted by in Featured, ObamaCare, SPECIAL SERIES, U.S. Supreme Court Hears the Health Care Arguments

Three months after the Supreme Court handed down its landmark ruling on President Obama's health care law, new details have emerged on Chief Justice John Roberts' controversial vote in favor of upholding the Affordable Care Act. According to excerpts of a new book byNew Yorker writer and CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin published...

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Did John Roberts Give Mitt Romney A Gift?

Jun 30, 12 Did John Roberts Give Mitt Romney A Gift?

Posted by in ObamaCare, SPECIAL SERIES

By, Marcia Angell, M.D. The Supreme Court's decision to uphold the Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare, puts me in mind of the old proverb: Be careful what you wish for. Democrats on a victory lap should watch their step, because John Roberts may have given Mitt Romney a gift. The impact on the health system will be much...

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Did Roberts flip? Clues suggest court initially had the votes to strike down ObamaCare

Jun 30, 12 Did Roberts flip? Clues suggest court initially had the votes to strike down ObamaCare

Posted by in ...screwed, Kinda Freaky, Yet..., ObamaCare, Politics, Society

  While Republicans gasped as Chief Justice John Roberts joined the Supreme Court's liberal wing in upholding the federal health care overhaul, clues in the dissent suggest the conservative jurist may have originally sided against the law. Perhaps the country will never know, but legal experts have seized on a string of...

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