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    “We shall see
    If power change purpose, what our seemers be.” – Measure for Measure

For years the right has complained about judicial activism in the courts – that rulings by the U.S. Supreme Court, for example, have been wrong and an overuse of power.  Now the U.S. Supreme Court is contemplating Obama’s health care law.  If they rule to overturn it, by what possible measure can that be anything but the very judicial activism they claim so vociferously to dislike?


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  1. Chris Clark

    11 years ago

    I guess that depends on whether the entire law is overturned–which would seem to be judicial activism to me–or if the court only strikes down those portions of the healthcare mandate which violate states’ rights (since insurance law is technically a state, not a federal issue–at least, right now).

    To me, part of the irony here is that the bills for the federal insurance option, which would make most of this moot, are supported by some of the same people who want the healthcare law struck down for interfering with states’ rights. I’ll admit, order of operations is pretty non-trivial for legal issues, but to me this mostly plays like political leverage.

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