| Above the Fold |
March 28, 2012 |
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| Today's News |
| Health ruling looms small in Obama race |
| By Charles Babington |
| The Supreme Court's much-anticipated ruling on health care, expected in late June, may have one surprising outcome: a modest impact on President Barack Obama's re-election bid, even though he is intimately associated with the challenged law…Read more |
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 I recommend that people read the transcript at the same time as listening to the audio. I do not see from that the PPACA is dead in the water. I am not a supporter, but just saying don't start celebrating too early. The justices needed to ask tough questions of both sides, which they did. But the fact that they questioned--especially that they questioned the Solictor General--didn't strike me as meaning that they already had their minds made up against the mandate being constitutional. It is a tricky question that is and should be decided on best understanding of the what the Framers intended, and what has been the history of applying the commerce clause. 
-- John Atwood, Justices signal deep trouble for health reform
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