Supreme Court to Rule on Obama's Health Care Law

Update: Gingrich says he will strip the judiciary's power to rule on constitutionality. If he is the front runner in June, when the Supreme Court decision is announced, the court will have a strong incentive to support Obama by approving the ACA. The Republican convention will be held in August. Update: When SCOTUS justices recuse themselves, they do it when a case is accepted. Kagan will not recuse herself. Predicted vote is 6-3 to uphold. I think it will pass 5-3. For: Ginsberg, Breyer, Sotomayor, Kennedy, and Roberts; against: Thomas, Scalia, Alioto; abstain: Kagan. It still passes in case of a tie, if Roberts votes against. Most articles claiming to discuss legal issues turn out to be policy discussions. I'd like to talk about legal issues first. Some say the individual mandate violates the 13th Amendment's ban on involuntary servitude. It doesn't because it doesn't require any work or action. Examples of involuntary servitude are the draft and jury duty, yet the Supreme Court... Read more

I don't see the health insurance mandate regime being held up by the Supreme Court. Look for a 5-3 split (Thomas, Scalia, Roberts, Alito, and Kennedy) voting to overturn, with Elena Kagan abstaining due to her role as Solicitor General when the law passed. Given that SCOTUS has decided to take the case on during an election year, health care will no doubt now be one of the main issues that will decide the next election. The mandate regime is a bad idea and it should be ruled unconstitutional, but that does not change the fact that the system is in SERIOUS need of real reform. This law was passed largely to bailout the health insurance providers, by way of providing them with a fresh pool of healthy policy-holders to subsidize the costs of insuring less healthier, usually older policyholders. More broadly speaking, there are several problems with the current HMO-driven system we have. The law will likely be struck down, with the status quo remaining intact unfortunately. With... Read more

This 'health care' law may look like socialism on the surface, but it's really a boondoggle designed to enrich certain sectors of the insurance industry. I'm pretty sure O'Bomber got the presidency because the oligarchs didn't want to give Hillary's national health scheme a chance to be implemented.

This is potentially a big deal, but I would think that some of the conservatives on the court will blink before they throw down such a big gauntlet to the other branches of government just before an election.Who knows what goes on in the Supreme Court?