Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Net Right Daily: ObamaCare & SCOTUS: Day 3

The oral arguments at the Supreme Court over ObamaCare have ended. After 3 days, the fate of ObamaCare hangs in the hands of the 9 justices of the Supreme Court. We can expect a decision in late June.

You can listen to today’s arguments by clicking here and here. Today’s arguments centered around whether the new conditions on all federal Medicaid funding could be considered as unconstitutional coercion of the States (which can be heard by clicking here) and whether striking down the ObamaCare mandate would dismantle the entire law (which can be heard by clicking here).

Beware of predictions of ObamaCare’s demise by the liberal media because they are premature:

"Yesterday, Jeffrey Toobin, a liberal legal analyst for CNN, was rebuked by Senator Harry Reid for predicting that, based on yesterday’s oral arguments, the Supreme Court would rule against Obamacare’s Individual Mandate. But despite early predictions of the Individual Mandate’s demise, a closer look at the oral arguments shows that such analysis is premature.

It is generally agreed that in order to win this case, the respondents (opponents of the law)[1] will have to win over the four conservatives on the bench, Justices Roberts, Scalia, Thomas, and Alito, as well as, the court’s perennial swing vote, Justice Kennedy......

Read more at NetRightDaily.com: http://netrightdaily.com/2012/03/obamacare-scotus-day-3/#ixzz1qSIlLvYa

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