By Bill Wilson — Today’s oral arguments show the Court may be accepting the premise that the individual mandate will be struck down. What remains is the rest of law, and the justices appear to be pretty evenly split on that matter. This may indicate that a […]
NRD Editor’s Note: This post originally appeared at The Hill . By Rick Manning — On the same week that Washington’s political punditry runs wild with analysis on the Supreme Court’s oral arguments on the constitutionality of ObamaCare, and the rest of the country is busily checking their NCAA […]
By Rebekah Rast — “Here the government is saying the federal government has a duty to tell citizens it must act,” says Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy during the Obamacare oral arguments, and the idea of forcing individuals to purchase health insurance changes the relationship […]
NRD Editor’s Note: We will be updating this post throughout the day with new information–so stay tuned! Arguments in day 2 of the ObamaCare SCOTUS case have come to an end. Listen to today’s arguments by clicking here (you can listen to yesterday’s arguments by clicking here ). Today’s […]
From a Wall Street Journal breaking news alert: Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy said the U.S. government has a “very heavy burden of justification” to show where the Constitution authorizes the Congress to change the relation of individuals to the government. His comments came as the high court […]
By Frank McCaffrey — A certain tax law might or might not apply with ObamaCare. The Supreme Court is hearing arguments on this. ObamaCareWatcher.org’s John Vinci explains this complicated argument.
By Bill Wilson — The “new” normal is actually not so new. The practice of printing money or inflating a currency to “pay” for a national debt has been around for at least as long as the practice of governments borrowing funds to pay for their unsustainable […]
By David Bozeman — The intellectual heavy lifting of maintaining meaningful political discourse in America is done mostly by conservatives. And sometimes they drop the ball, which is excusable given that the left dominates news dissemination and entertainment. The leftist currency is not rational debate […]
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito lit up the court room today when he questioned Solicitor General Don Verrilli about whether the penalty for failing to purchase health care under the ObamaCare mandate was a tax. Here is the exchange: JUSTICE ALITO: General Verrilli, today you […]
NRD Editor’s Note: We will be updating this post throughout the day with new information–so stay tuned! The oral arguments for day 1 of the ObamaCare Supreme Court hearing have come to a close. Click here to hear the first day’s SCOTUS arguments . Here is some background on the lawyer’s going in front […]
