tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8697060800242665861.post1581783482314577146..comments2023-11-07T10:47:56.941-05:00Comments on The Past isn't Past: The Supreme Court and the Health Care Law Decision: Judicial Victory, Political Defeat?Mark Byrneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02022137257615203375noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8697060800242665861.post-70310287901648222912012-10-24T09:33:37.391-04:002012-10-24T09:33:37.391-04:00The Supreme Court takes up the constitutionality o...The Supreme Court takes up the constitutionality of the health care law today. I'm not a constitutional historian, so I can't speak definitively about its constitutionality (though the law strikes me as a reasonable use of the commerce clause, and to find otherwise would seem to me like a reactionary reversal of 80 years of constitutional history). <a href="http://www.getnewpatientsinc.com/" rel="nofollow">James Dreesen</a><br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16671195978168816842noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8697060800242665861.post-6623942116876733122012-06-28T10:30:47.249-04:002012-06-28T10:30:47.249-04:00Seems like Roberts did, in fact, decide not to be ...Seems like Roberts did, in fact, decide not to be that man.Mark Byrneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02022137257615203375noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8697060800242665861.post-40779734459721313842012-03-28T10:23:27.077-04:002012-03-28T10:23:27.077-04:00Bill, I think the danger may be that he might be t...Bill, I think the danger may be that he might be tempted to think that a sweeping decision will make him the conservative Earl Warren.Mark Byrneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02022137257615203375noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8697060800242665861.post-87078753489783635272012-03-28T00:56:59.053-04:002012-03-28T00:56:59.053-04:00Mark, what an awesome post, thank you. What you sa...Mark, what an awesome post, thank you. What you say reminds me of a CSPAN documentary I just saw about the workings of the Supreme Court. The current Chief Justice, John Roberts, is heard in a voice over, as the camera pans the portraits of prior Chief Justices, remember the lesson of Taney - don't be THAT man.William Carletonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13671670871423252036noreply@blogger.com