The Supreme Court Hears the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act

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Obama’s Message to Justices: Overturning Health Care Law Would be ‘Unprecedented’

President Barack Obama claimed confidence that his landmark health care law would be upheld by the Supreme Court despite the widely held consensus from legal experts that last week’s oral arguments before the court did not go well for the administration. Obama also implied that ruling the law unconstitutional would be “unprecedented” and could be viewed as “judicial activism.”

“We are confident that this will be over – that this will be upheld,” Obama said on Monday from the White House. “I’m confident this will be upheld because it should be upheld. Again, that’s not just my opinion. That’s the opinion of a whole lot of constitutional law professors, academics and judges.”

Obama also said it would be “unprecedented” if the court took the “extraordinary step of overturning a law that was passed by a strong majority of a democratically elected Congress.”

Sounds like someone is concerned for their signature legislation.

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I was totally about to make this video. Glad I found someone else did before I got around to it:

Peter Schiff Rips Obama’s Ignorance of Supreme Court History & Precedent 04-03-12

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This article was posted yesterday:

Update: No Health Care Decision From Supreme Court Today

The court just finished issuing its opinions and other orders for the day. Neither the health care nor campaign finance cases were among them.

So we’ll repeat this process on Thursday.

This delay almost leads one to believe that something is going on behind the scenes at the White House.

And teh Judge:

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“This delay almost leads one to believe that something is going on behind the scenes at the White House.”

Does anyone feel the possibility of something similar to the Judicial Procedures Reform Bill of 1937 a la FDR? There are, after all, 4 justices over the age of 70 and 6 months.