Breaking News :In the Affordable Care Act (health care) cases, the Court held that it had jurisdiction and upheld the individual mandate.
http://www.scotusblog.com/Breaking News :In the Affordable Care Act (health care) cases, the Court held that it had jurisdiction and upheld the individual mandate.
http://www.scotusblog.com/The opinion upholding the individual mandate is here (Free BLAW link)
The opinion upholding the individual mandate is here (Court's website)
http://www.scotusblog.com/A giant hole in the safety net?
By Lyle Denniston on J
un 28, 2012 at 8:55 pm
Analysis
The modern welfare state, one in which a socially sensitive Congress has been eager to soothe the pangs of poverty, hunger, disease and aging, has created a huge safety net, but people keep falling through it. It definitely has not been as sturdy as Congress or the advocates for society’s neglected, outcast or under-served had wanted. The question, in the wake of Thursday’s compromise decision by the Supreme Court, salvaging a part of Congress’s massive expansion of the Medicaid program for the poor, is whether a gaping new hole has been opened in that net.
If there is a hole, huge or less so, it has a name: the “coercion” theory. Seven Justices of the Supreme Court, rescuing that theory from the back of history’s closet where it has remained totally unused, embraced at least of version of the idea that Congress can make life so tough for its state partners in a joint social welfare program that it violates the Constitution. In the form outlined in the opinion by Chief Justice R. Roberts, Jr., it can be thought of properly as a new doctrine of states’ rights, or of federalism.
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Menu of today’s coverage
By Kali Borkoski on Jun 28, 2012 at 6:35 pm
Our health-care coverage:
http://www.scotusblog.com/Lyle’s report on the Court’s decision to uphold the mandate is here.
http://www.scotusblog.com/UPDATED: 6:35 Our post-decision symposium contributions can be found here.
http://www.scotusblog.com/New: 6:07 Amy’s report on today’s decision “In Plain English” is here.
http://www.scotusblog.com/Our webcast with Kaiser Health News featuring Tom and Lyle is here.
http://www.scotusblog.com/Kevin’s report on the Medicaid portion of the decision is here (with a supplement here).
http://www.scotusblog.com/Tejinder’s report on the Anti-Injunction Act portion of the decision is here.
http://www.scotusblog.com/A replay of the live blog and an ongoing round-up of coverage is here.
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A podcast of Tom talking with Spencer Mazyck of Bloomberg is here.
http://www.scotusblog.com/Our non-health care coverage:
http://www.scotusblog.com/Tejinder’s post on the other two decisions today, Alvarez and First American Financial is here.
http://www.scotusblog.com/Tejinder’s opinion analysis of the Stolen Valor Act opini
http://www.scotusblog.com/on is here.
Kevin’s analysis of First American is here.
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