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Why Roberts Still Won
It wasn’t supposed to happen like this. Justice Kennedy was supposed to be “the decider”, according to the cover of this week’s Time. Not Roberts, not the conservative workhorse Republicans love and Democrats love to hate. Yet there it is; 59 pages in which Chief Justice Roberts upheld the most liberal social reform since the…
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Supreme Court Upholds Obamacare in 5-4 Decision
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Supreme Court upheld the individual mandate and the bulk of the Affordable Care Act in a 5-4 this morning, surprising many court-watchers and breathing life into President Obama’s reelection hopes. The majority opinion, written by Chief Justice John Roberts, found that the individual mandate did violate the Commerce Clause, but the…
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