(AP Photo/Nick Ut) For months before today's announcement of the Supreme Court's decision in the Health Care Cases, the conventional wisdom had centered on two things: (1) The vote would be 6-3; and (2) Chief Justice John G. Roberts would write the…
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Nobody was doing well by the time oral arguments in the Health Care cases ended at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday. Some Justices were sniping back and forth. The lawyers were showing the strain. And Justice Antonin Scalia was telling jokes. "[Y]ou know-the old…
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On December 10, 1935, during oral argument before a hostile Supreme Court, then-Solicitor General Stanley Reed collapsed at the lectern. (He recovered and went on to serve on the Court himself.) Let history show that Solicitor General Donald Verrilli…
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This is the first of a series of posts looking at the arguments in the upcoming health-care case. Judges, whatever they like to pretend, rarely decide cases on logical application of argument and case law. They do think about those things, but…
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