Back in early May, the Trump administration asked the court to strike down all of Obamacare: The Trump administration filed a motion in opposition to the entire Affordable Care Act aka “Obamacare” on Wednesday, arguing in a federal appeals court that the signature Obama-era legislation was unconstitutional and should be struck down. Trump Administration Files Formal Request … Read more
Piling more bad news on top of bad news from the U.S. Supreme Court, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi today agreed to clear the Senate’s version of emergency border aid package for strapped federal agencies dealing with the migrant humanitarian crisis, “jettisoning the House’s strict controls on the $4.6 billion in a stinging defeat. In Defeat, Pelosi … Read more
I’m going to take today’s decisions out of order, and review them by relevance instead. As I expected, the two partisan gerrymandering cases (Lamone v. Benisek and Rucho v. Common Cause) were combined together into a single opinion. The court has for years avoided addressing the issue of partisan gerrymandering, with former Justice Kennedy suggesting that … Read more
Union representatives from the Teamsters, teachers, city police and firefighters gathered to endorse Steve Farley, a Democratic candidate for Mayor of Tucson. “I am so humbled by your endorsements,” he said. “These are the people who do the work out on our streets, in our schools, and in our buses. Everywhere we need them, our … Read more
The Chief Justice Roberts Supreme Court has demonstrated over the years a penchant for the reality TV show cliffhanger: build up the tension and suspense, and then tell viewers “tune in for the next episode” to find out what happens. This is what happened again today, with the court leaving its most controversial cases to … Read more