Obamacare at the Court: Day 3, Severability and Spending
If the individual mandate is the blockbuster issue before the Court, Medicaid and severability may be sleeper hits that ultimately have tremendous impact. If the Court strikes down the mandate, then...
View ArticleIs the Supreme Court the Final Arbiter on Obamacare?
In oral arguments yesterday about Obamacare’s individual mandate, Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts posited that if the government could force people to buy health insurance, its power would be...
View ArticleDay 3 at the Court – Severability and Coercive Medicaid Conditions
The Court’s morning session concentrated on whether, if the individual mandate is held unconstitutional (as looks increasingly likely after yesterday’s argument), it can be cleanly severed from the...
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Morning Bell: And Now the Supreme Court Must Decide
For the past three days, the nine justices of the U.S. Supreme Court heard a series of arguments on Obamacare — what promises to be one of the most seminal decisions in the Court’s history. Now that...
View ArticlePODCAST: Rep. Steve King on Obamacare, Budget
In a special Heritage podcast, Congressman Steve King (R – IA) discusses Obamacare’s challenge in the Supreme Court and the budget. Click here to listen. In the case the Supreme Court does not rule...
View ArticleMorning Bell: Obama Slams Supreme Court over Obamacare
The highest elected official in the United States dished out an extra helping of irony yesterday when, in speaking at a joint news conference with Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Mexican...
View ArticleDear Liberals, Originalism Is Not Activism
Obamacare’s day in court didn’t go so well, and liberals are in a panic. Sensing the demise of Obamacare, they have begun to preemptively accuse the conservative justices of “judicial activism.” But...
View ArticleHolder’s Letter to Judges Ignores the Issue
Instead of responding to the 5th Circuit Court’s explicit request regarding President Obama’s untoward comments about the Supreme Court’s power to overturn congressional statutes, Attorney General Eric...
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Obama Jumps the Shark, Takes One Leap Too Far
This week, President Barack Obama lashed out at the Supreme Court, slamming it as an “unelected group of people” who will have turned to “judicial activism or a lack of judicial restraint” if they...
View ArticleDeferring to Congress on ObamaCare
In a Washington Post opinion piece, Charles Krauthammer makes the case that it is ObamaCare that is on trial—not the Supreme Court. The focus should remain on this “fundamentally transformative law”...
View ArticleObamacare’s Two-Year Anniversary
Today marks the two-year anniversary of President Obama signing into law the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, which will go down in the history books as “Obamacare.” With the Supreme Court...
View ArticleObamacare in the Supreme Court 101: Deliberations, Rulings and Impacts
On Monday—two years after President Obama signed Obamacare into law—the Supreme Court will hear arguments challenging the health law’s constitutionality. Heralded as the case of the century, the oral...
View ArticleObamacare at the Court: Day 1
This morning, shortly after 10 am, Chief Justice John Roberts will open oral argument in U.S. Department of Health and Human Services v. Florida on the issue of whether challenges to ObamaCare’s...
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Morning Bell: Obamacare Comes before the Supreme Court
Rare is the occasion when the nine justices of the U.S. Supreme Court gather to hear three days of arguments, and rarer still is when it is for a case like Obamacare — one that cuts to the core of the...
View ArticleMonday’s Obamacare Argument: A Taste of Things to Come
The biggest news from the Supreme Court’s oral argument on Obamacare today is that no justice indicated he or she would be troubled reaching the merits of the larger constitutional challenges to the...
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Obamacare at the Court Preview: Day 2, The Individual Mandate
Call it the main event: after a day puzzling over whether Obamacare’s fines on those who don’t buy insurance constitute a tax or a penalty—an important threshold issue, to be sure, but one that hasn’t...
View ArticleAudio and Transcript: Obamacare at the Supreme Court, Day Two
Obamacare saw its second day at the Supreme Court today. Heritage staff will have in-depth analysis of the day’s events later today (read our preview here). For now, here is audio and a full transcript...
View ArticleVideo: Individual Mandate Under Fire: Obamacare at the Court, Day 2
The packed hearing room of the Supreme Court was a who’s who of lawyers and political leaders this morning, all of whom witnessed what was an undeniably bad day for the Obama Administration and its...
View ArticleIn Pictures: Conservatives Rally Against Obamacare at the Court
Heritage was on the scene at the Supreme Court today as the justices began the second day of hearings on Obamacare (as we were yesterday). Protesters gathered in front of the Court, expressing their...
View ArticleObamacare at the Court: Day 3, Severability and Spending
If the individual mandate is the blockbuster issue before the Court, Medicaid and severability may be sleeper hits that ultimately have tremendous impact. If the Court strikes down the mandate, then...
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