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Drudge ran a classic headline today regarding the decision of the Department of Homeland Security to suspend all existing cooperation agreements with Arizona in light of the Supreme Court's unanimous upholding of §2(B), permitting authorities to check the immigration status of persons otherwise lawfully detained: While...
The Supreme Court decided the Arizona immigration law, S.B. 1070. Justice Kennedy wrote the majority opinion. The Court struck the provisions dealing with state criminal penalties and other provisions which imposed procedural requirements on illegals in the state. Among the provisions the Court struck is the...
You can check out the live action at ScotusBlog's live feed. The Supreme Court's opinion page updates with new opinions not long after announced in court. If either of the two biggies come down, I'll create a separate post. Updates: Montana campaign case summarily reversed. Case might...
It's gone from the headlines and the news reports. Whatever happens this week, one footnote may be whether Elena Kagan should have recused herself on the Obamacare case as she did on the Arizona immigration case. Via Judicial Watch on March 22, 2012: Judicial Watch, the nation’s largest government watchdog group,...
A long while ago I expressed that Obama lost the Obamacare litigation politically the moment the Supreme Court decided to take the case on a track to render a decision before the election. (Can't find the post, help!)[see Update] My view was that a total legal victory would...
Richard Mourdock's campaign had an operational failure by uploading a video about the Supreme Court overturning Obamacare. The campaign also uploaded other versions depending on outcome. That's an embarrassment, but really, who has not come close to that? You mean to tell me the newspapers don't have...
The Supreme Court heard argument this morning on the challenge to Arizona's immigration law, S.B. 1070. See my post yesterday for background. The transcript and audio will not be available until the end of the week (the same day release on the Obamacare argument was an...
SB 1070, the Arizona immigration law, is on for oral argument tomorrow at the U.S. Supreme Court. Justice Elena Kagan recused herself. If there is a 4-4 split, the 9th Circuit decision enjoining key part of the law stands. My prior posts for some background: Arizona Law...
for us. Rasmussen Reports, Supreme Court’s Ratings Jump Following Health Care Hearings: Just before the highly publicized hearing on the constitutionality of President Obama’s health care law, ratings for the U.S. Supreme Court had fallen to the lowest level ever measured by Rasmussen Reports. Now, following the...
The normally supportive commentariat is not happy, for a variety of reasons: My law school classmate Ruth Marcus, WaPo, Obama’s unsettling attack on the Supreme Court: "I would lament a ruling striking down the individual mandate, but I would not denounce it as conservative justices run...
Aw, a bunch of unelected judges may have a different view of the Constitution than Barack Obama, and may overturn a law passed by Congress. That never has happened before. The thing is, those judges may not be elected, and may not have any divisions. But they have...
There's pretty much doom and gloom all the time in the right blogosphere. Most of the bloggers I follow are having a hard time staying away from sharp objects as we glance towards November and the possibility of the teflon president tefloning his way towards a tefloned...
On March 28, 2012, I was a guest of Mark Carbonaro Show on KION 1460 AM in Salinas, CA, talking about the Supreme Court oral arguments in the Obamacare litigation. Total time was about 25 minutes, the audio is broken down into two parts. ...
I'm not predicting that the mandate or the entirety of Obamacare will go down at the Supreme Court. But based on the oral arguments, those who support the law are in a state of panic. Digging back into Memeorandum from March 23, 2010, when Obamacare was signed into...
The challenge to the Obamacare mandate, long dismissed by the legal establishment and media as frivolous and almost unworthy of serious consideration, is on the cusp of victory at the Supreme Court. Credit a few lone legal voices, including at Volokh Conspiracy, with keeping the intellectual...
Tom Goldstein at ScotusBlog has an interim report: Based on the questions posed to Paul Clement, the lead attorney for the state challengers to the individual mandate, it appears that the mandate is in trouble. It is not clear whether it will be struck down, but...
This morning was the first day of oral argument in the Supreme Court on challenges to Obamacare. The audio should be available in a little while. Today was the issue of the Anti-Injunction Act, which arguably would prohibit court involvement if the mandate were viewed as...
