{"id":184535,"date":"2012-03-27T19:40:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-28T00:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/03\/27\/why-i-am-not-covering-the-scotus-arguments-over-obamacare\/"},"modified":"2012-03-27T19:40:00","modified_gmt":"2012-03-28T00:40:00","slug":"why-i-am-not-covering-the-scotus-arguments-over-obamacare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/03\/27\/why-i-am-not-covering-the-scotus-arguments-over-obamacare\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I am Not Covering the Scotus Arguments Over Obamacare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Because I think that the law and precedent is clear, and the only questionis whether there are 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5 justices who are corrupt enough, and partisan enough, to vote to strike down the act.<\/p>\n<p>If Kennedy votes not to strike down, I think that he takes Roberts with him, giving a 6-3 decision, but if he swings the other way, so does Roberts.<\/p>\n<p>The Chief Justice will not be on the dissenting side of this vote, because of the optics, not because of the law.<\/p>\n<p>Roberts may be a corrupt partisan hack, but he only uses the secret sauce when it makes a difference in the final decision.<\/p>\n<p>My guess is that it will be 4-5 to strike down much of the law, but if not, it will be 6-3 supporting it.<\/p>\n<p>What must be noted though is that this is not a matter of law. The law has been settled for at least 60 years.<\/p>\n<p>The only question is how corrupt the 5 right wing justices are.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because I think that the law and precedent is clear, and the only questionis whether there are 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5 justices who are corrupt enough, and partisan enough, to vote to strike down the act. If Kennedy votes not to strike down, I think that he takes Roberts with him, giving a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1097,1046,972,1020,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-constitution","category-healthcare","category-justice","category-legislation","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184535"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}