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Bush v. Gore v. the Court upholding most of ACA (Obamacare).
Sonia Sotomayor on The Daily Show tonight.
Thomas, J. (Yale, JD), speaks: funny at argument—Yale degree could mean lawyer is incompetent, not competent, capital trial counsel.
In which Clarence Thomas speaks at oral arguments for the first time in seven years.
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Patrick Gaspard, the Executive Director of the Democratic National Committee
Here’s a nifty rundown on what the Supreme Court decided on the Affordable Care Act.
Take a breath and read this slowly. It helped us.
In Plain English: The Affordable Care Act, including its individual mandate that virtually all Americans buy health insurance, is constitutional. There were not five votes to uphold it on the ground that Congress could use its power to regulate commerce between the states to require everyone to buy health insurance. However, five Justices agreed that the penalty that someone must pay if he refuses to buy insurance is a kind of tax that Congress can impose using its taxing power. That is all that matters. Because the mandate survives, the Court did not need to decide what other parts of the statute were constitutional, except for a provision that required states to comply with new eligibility requirements for Medicaid or risk losing their funding. On that question, the Court held that the provision is constitutional as long as states would only lose new funds if they didn’t comply with the new requirements, rather than all of their funding.
(via SCOTUSblog)
