Supreme Court

Is the Affordable Care Act Doomed?

March 27, 2012

So it comes down to this: this is the week that the Supreme Court is hearing the oral arguments about the Affordable Care Act, President Obama’s signature health care reform law. The Justices are specifically focusing on the question of that pesky individual mandate, which as the name might indicate will eventually require that each…

A Startling Civil Liberties Twist

January 7, 2010

By bassitone

[tweetmeme source="bassitone" only_single=false] Well, this is a dangerous ruling. Today, The District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the Presidential power to detain terrorists goes beyond even the Geneva Convention and other “rules of war”, according to the New York Times. This is especially interesting in that it was just about a unanimous…