Obama Is Out of Date. C...

Michael Barone, DC Examiner Time for a postmortem on the race for the Republican presidential nomination.Yes, I know Ron Paul and Newt Gingrich are still out there saying interesting things. And that Rick Santorum says it's only halftime and argues he can somehow overtake Mitt Romney...

President Lands Shots o...

E.J. Dionne, WaPo ELON, N.C. — Conservatives are not accustomed to being on the defensive.They have long experience with attacking the evils of the left and the abuses of activist judges. They love to assail "tax-and-spend liberals" without ever discussing who should be...

Obama vs. the Constitut...

Charles Krauthammer, Washington Post "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.""” Barack...

Obama Bullies the Court...

Charles Krauthammer, Washington Post “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.”— Barack...

Why Health Care Challen...

Ronald Dworkin, NY Review of Books The Supreme Court’s hearings in the health care case, Department of Health and Human Services v. Florida, over a nearly unprecedented three days of oral argument, generated all the attention, passion, theater, and constant media and editorial...

The Liberal Legal Bubbl...

Peter Suderman, Reason How could members of the Supreme Court possibly seriously consider the argument that ObamaCare's individual mandate to purchase health insurance is unprecedented and unconstitutional? The quality of the arguments? The presence of a genuine legal debate? No, if...

Eat Your Broccoli, Just...

Steven Pearlstein, Washington Post If the law is an ass, as Mr. Bumble declares in “Oliver Twist,” then constitutional law must surely be the entire wagon train.Like most Washington policy wonks, I spent too much of last week reading transcripts of the Supreme Court...

Activist Judges On Tria...

E.J. Dionne, The New Republic WASHINGTON — Three days of Supreme Court arguments over the health care law demonstrated for all to see that conservative justices are prepared to act as an alternative legislature, diving deeply into policy details as if they were members of the Senate...

Why the Health Care Law...

Eva Rodriguez, Washington Post This much is clear after two hours of Supreme Court arguments over the constitutionality of the individual mandate, which I was in the room to hear: The president's health-care bill won't rise or fall on a question of law, but on how the majority...

Court Should Uphold the...

Adam Cohen, Time The Supreme Court hears arguments this week in a high-stakes challenge to President Obama’s health care law. The court will consider complex constitutional questions, but the biggest issue is a more basic one. Will the court’s conservative Justices,...