Round-Up: Supreme Court Decides Affordable Care Act
Posted on | June 28, 2012 by Annalee Seath, J.D. |
Much ink will be spilled in the coming weeks and months over today’s Supreme Court ruling, which preserves the Affordable Care Act. Today, we link you to some of the best explanations and analysis that we’ve found (thus far):
Best Place to Read the Opinion:
Interactive: Inside the Health Care Ruling, by Erica Ryan and Matt Stiles, NPR
Explanations:
The Mandate Is Constitutional: In Plain English, by Amy Howe at SCOTUS Blog
Sometimes Labels Matter: Why the Anti-Injunction Act Didn’t Preclude Judicial Consideration of the Individual Mandate, by Tejinder Singh, SCOTUS Blog
Court Holds That States Have Choice Whether to Join Medicaid Expansion, by Kevin Russell at SCOTUS Blog
Supreme Court Upholds Obama’s Health Care Law, by Robert Barnes, N.C. Aizenman, and William Branigin at Washington Post
Analysis:
Marshalling Precedent: With Nod to Predecessor, Roberts Affirms Mandate, by Adam J. White, Weekly Standard
Pro-Life Groups Disappointed by Ruling Upholding ObamaCare, by Steven Ertelt, LifeNews
Was Scalia’s Dissent Originally A Majority Opinion?, by David Bernstein, The Volokh Conspiracy
Lose Battle, Win War?, by Jonathan H Adler, National Review Online
Some Brief Thoughts on the Health Care Decision, by Susan Stabile, Mirror of Justice
Taxation and Regulation Under the Health Care Act, by Richard Epstein, SCOTUS Blog
Groups Vow to Continue Fighting for Religious Liberty as Supreme Court Upholds Affordable Care Act, by Catholic News Agency/EWTN News, National Catholic Register
Health Care Vote Make it Easier to Mothball Roe v. Wade, by Matthew Schmitz, First Things
A Weird Victory for Federalism, by Randy Barnett, SCOTUS Blog
The President That Time Forgot, by Daniel Henninger, Wall Street Journal
What Does the Health Care Decision Mean? A Guide, by Joanne Kenen and Jonathan Allen, Politico
Statements:
Catholic Health Association Pleased with Supreme Court Ruling on Affordable Care Act, by Sr. Carol Keehan
Bishops Renew Plea to Congress and Administration to Repair Affordable Care Act, by U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops
President Obama Comments on Supreme Court Upholding Affordable Care Act, by Daily Koss Editors at Daily Koss
Mitt Romney: We Must Replace Obama, by Ginger Gibson, Politico
Speaker Boehner Statement on the Supreme Court’s Health Care Ruling, by Speaker Boehner Press Office, www.speaker.gov
