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It seems fitting that a British paper, The Daily Mail, summed up better than any American paper the events that played out, like a Shakespearean tragicomedy, in Washington today: Republican House Speaker John Boehner and Texas Senator Ted Cruz have dramatically caved in to pressure, paving the way for a Democrat-led bill to pass and… Read more.
I was bemused when I read this headline today on the Huffington Post. Even more so when I read Bob Woodward pronouncing the following with evident consternation and indignation: Let’s call it what it is, they are trying to blackmail the president and say, ‘Look, we’re going to shutdown the government or default on our… Read more.
In defending the constitutionality of Obamacare before the Supreme Court in March, Solicitor General Donald B. Verrilli Jr. argued that it could be upheld under Congress’s plenary power to regulate interstate commerce (aka the Commerce Clause). But a clear majority of the justices did not seem persuaded that this clause gives the government the power to… Read more.
I predict the Court will rule … to uphold the constitutionality of what is bound to go down in history as the most important achievement of any U.S. president since the Civil Rights bill President Lyndon Johnson signed into law in 1964. (“Supreme Court To Rule on Landmark Healthcare Reform,” The iPINIONS Journal, November 23,… Read more.
All of Washington is waiting with bated breath for tomorrow’s Supreme Court ruling on the constitutionality of Obamacare. I’m on record predicting not only that the Court will rule it constitutional, but that it will do so by a rare 6-3 margin: I predict the Court will rule 6-3 to upholdthe constitutionality of what is… Read more.
When Barack Obama said he wanted to be a transformative president I’m sure he did not have in mind a transformation from the personification of hope in 2008 to the personification of despair this year. Yet this is the only transformation his (predominantly Republican) critics see. What is delusional about this, however, is that chief… Read more.
Yesterday lawyers for and against Obama’s landmark healthcare reform began three days of arguments before the Supreme Court. What is truly remarkable though is that the arguments the lawyers are proffering in Court are essentially the same as those politicians proffered in Congress when the healthcare bill was being debated two years ago. I have written many commentaries on… Read more.
