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Williams v. Maryland
The Supreme Court’s docket shows the certiorari petition and related briefs for this case as distributed for today’s conference. We should know soon if the Court is interested. Maryland only issues...
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If It Doesn’t Walk Like a Duck …
… And doesn’t quack like a duck, then it might not be a duck. Or a tax. It seems that the Supreme Court gave the idea that the Obamacare penalty for not having health insurance is really just a tax a...
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Duck Hunting, Day 2
The second round of oral arguments in over in the Obamacare case at the Supreme Court. Scotusblog is beginning to get analysis up as I type this. One good sign for the states suing to overturn the...
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Day 3 in the Duck Blind
The Prequels: If It Doesn’t Walk Like a Duck … Duck Hunting, Day 2 The first two interim reports of the oral arguments on severability are up at SCOTUSblog. Paul Clement, arguing that the whole law...
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My Best Guess
I was going to keep these predictions hermetically sealed in a mayonnaise jar on Funk & Wagnall’s porch, but here goes … The penalty isn’t a tax, so the Anti-Injunction Act doesn’t apply. 9 to 0....
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The Supremes and Catholic Charities
Over at The Corner, Benjamin Zycher wonders … if the Left/Obama/Kathleen Sebelius didn’t shoot themselves in the backside when they decided to apply a chainsaw to the religious liberty of the Catholic...
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Desperation?
One of the riffs du jour on the Internet today is about the apparent attempt by the President and his allies to “intimidate” the Supreme Court in order to get the “correct” decision on Obamacare. David...
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The Last Word (For a While)
I’m growing tired of the President’s missteps and misstatements concerning the Obamacare case before the Supreme Court, so I’m going to give James Taranto what I hope will be the last word for a while:...
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Don’t Know Much About History
Oh, those pesky facts! They keep getting in the way! As part of the Left’s frothing at the mouth over the possibility that the Supreme Court might find Obamacare unconstitutional, David R. Dow has a...
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Lame Stream Media?
The comments make more sense than the original blog post. (H/T, Jonah Goldberg) UPDATE—Charles C. W. Cooke properly fisks Mr. Budowsky’s screed. He concludes: It is legitimate, if unsound, to argue, as...
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The Law of Unintended Consequences
Well, well, well! After the oral arguments on Obamacare and the Democrats’ foolish attempt at intimidation, the Supreme Court’s favorability rating with the public has gone up. We’re expecting the...
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Your Argument Is “Not Selling Very Well”
When the Solicitor General gets that feedback from a liberal Justice (Sotomayor), you know he’s having a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day. Arizona v. United States did not seem to go well for...
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If You Strike Me Down …
Powerline has a post up that looks at some of the lame ways various liberals are using pre-decision commentary to “put the squeeze” on the Supreme Court and, especially, the Chief Justice about...
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The Empire Strikes Out
Ilya Shapiro has an essay at the WSJ on why the Obama Administration keeps losing in the Supreme Court. He believes the problem is that the administration simply does not understand the limits of...
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Immigration, Arizona, and the President
Say, isn’t the Supreme Court about to rule in the Arizona immigration law case? You know, the one about the law requiring Arizona cops to verify whether someone has the right to be in the country....
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Ex Post Factoid
As in a factoid from the Post (WaPo) wherein E. J. Dione writes that we will come to love Obamacare better after the Supreme Court has struck it down. (H/T, @philipaklein) He cites Joni Mitchell’s Law...
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#Obamacare, the Supreme Court, and My Predictions
I made these predictions on 29 March: I was going to keep these predictions hermetically sealed in a mayonnaise jar on Funk & Wagnall’s porch, but here goes … The penalty isn’t a tax, so the...
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Barack’s Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
First, the Supreme Court will hand down its decisions in the Obamacare cases. I’m still betting that the whole law will go down. Next, the House will hold the Contempt of Congress vote on Eric Holder....
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Barack’s Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day Unfolds
Strike One: The revised GDP figures for the economy stayed stuck at an annual rate of 1.9 percent for the first quarter of 2012. What that actually means is that the economy grew about 0.47 percent...
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Quote of the Day
John Marshall has made his decision; now let him enforce it! —Andrew Jackson
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