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Just a reminder, in case you missed the Supreme Court’s earlier announcements today. The long wait will last a bit longer.
We now know that the Supreme Court will finally rule on the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act this Thursday, June 28th. Today during its announcement the Court said it will end this session on Thursday. That means it will announce the rest of its outstanding opinions that day, including its decision on the Affordable Care Act.
The Affordable Care Act case is one of biggest and most important Supreme Court cases in decades. As it often does with big cases the Court has decided to wait to announce its decision until the very last possible day.
This Thursday starting at roughly 10:00 am Eastern we should find out if all, part, or none of the President’s signature legislative achievement has been ruled unconstitutional by the high court. It will very likely be the most followed and reported Supreme Court announcements since Bush v. Gore.
For a preview of what to expect on Thursday here are a list of the eight most likely ways the Court could rule on the Affordable Care Act.
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They will all be out of town by noon so they don’t have to listen to the howling.
I am looking forward to thursday.
If they voted, and the outcome was determined a week after oral arguments or whatever, didn’t they technically rule on this a while ago?
They’ve just been teasing the announcement.
If the Court throws out the Rube Goldberg Health Insurance “Reform” Act of 2010, Barack Obama will have whiffed on an entire presidential term. He’ll thus have two dubious accomplishments on his record: (a) squandering the greatest amount of political capital in the least amount of time with the least to show for it; and (b) being the first president since Coolidge to accomplish absolutely nothing of consequence in his first four years in office.
Sturm-und-drang kabuki aside, I don’t think Obama will be too disappointed in the results.
He sold us out to the <1% quite expertly.
Whatever the details that SCOTUS scribbles down before leaving town, you can be fairly certain as to the end result: clear instructions to the peasants that we must kneel before our corporate masters and render tribute.
As I have said all along,the ACA will be upheld by a 6-3 vote with CJ Roberts probably writing the opinion or assigning it to Justice Kennedy.75 years of interstate commerce jurisprudence cannot be set aside.Of course the wingnuts would like to do just this but we have only 3 real wingnuts on the Court.Many on the loony left would like to see the law struck down thinking it would pave the way for single payer but they are terribly mistaken. We will eventually have single payer but not for another 20-25 years.
The law will be struck down and that will be the end of it. No one will bring it up again for years to come and we will not see single payer in our lifetime. ..Period
I wonder if there will be notables on the steps filming documentaries of the street theater. Michael Moore perhaps? SCOTUS has been punting the date a small notch at a time to keep them guessing when to come — and so suppressing the numbers, who need to plan ahead.
This court has become irrelevant, and should not be heeded any more.
The key for me was Monday’s decision on the Arizona immigration law where they specifically decided not to decide on a key provision or two, only because they were not yet in effect. They were very clear that they could not decide on something that was not yet implemented. The mandate is not yet in play and won’t be for two years.
I wouldn’t be surprised if they punt on the mandate and keep the rest that’s already in play. If they don’t punt on it, then it makes what they did with Arizona vs what they’re doing in ACA completely inconsistent and renders the court as completely partisan and no longer doing their job as a neutral entity, therefore utterly unnecessary and useless.
If the court is in the GOP pocket and they throw the entire ACA out, we will have no hope of ever getting anything socially progressive through the court, as the opposition will know they can get stuff overturned, due to legislation from the bench.
There’s a lot riding on this, in my opinion. It has everything to do with our form of government and the three branch system going forward.
The outcome? despicable mandate will be declare constitutional,everything else is BS.