As I wrote earlier, the outcome of the 2012 election is likely to set the future course of the Supreme Court for a decade or more. A second-term Obama will have the opportunity to turn the Court decisively to the left. But there's more to the judiciary than the Supreme Court. Most cases don't make [...]...»

Ilya Shapiro points out an interesting exchange from the oral argument on ObamaCare. When the Solicitor General asserted that the Court "has got an obligation to construe [the mandate] as an exercise of the tax power, if it can be upheld on that basis," the Chief Justice interrupted him, and they had the following exchange: [...]...»