The future of Obamacare
The individual mandate requring citizens to purchase something was challenged from the beginning in state and appellate courts, and opening argument were just heard before the US Supreme Court. The HHS mandate requiring citizens to purchase something that violates their conscience is being challenged in a first round of lawsuits with more joining by the week.
One of the new games in town during last week’s Supreme Court hearing of arguments on Obamacare has been handicapping the justices likely ruling on this case, when one comes.
But ‘the best defense is a good offense’ strategy returns as the president takes a shot at the Supreme Court, actually using the term “judicial activism” as a warning.
And President Obama is pressing the ‘activist court’ charge.
“Ultimately, I’m confident that the Supreme Court will not take what would be an unprecedented, extraordinary step of overturning a law that was passed by a strong majority of a democratically elected Congress,” Obama said at a Rose Garden news conference.
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