Every post published in June 2012, most recent first.
Our final Stat Pack for October Term 2011 is now available. This edition features many of the same figures that we have been providing for years now, like the Circuit Scorecard, Frequency in the Majority, and Justice Agreement rates, as well as many new additions, like an expanded section on summary reversals and a Justice-by-Justice Circuit Scorecard.
The opinion in the health care cases is here. Our health-care coverage: Lyle’s report on the Court’s decision to uphold the mandate is here. Lyle’s report on the Medicaid portion of the decision is here. Amy’s report on the decision “In Plain English” is here.
Analysis The modern welfare state, one in which a socially sensitive Congress has been eager to soothe the pangs of poverty, hunger, disease and aging, has created a huge safety net, but people keep falling through it.
On Thursday, after the nation spent months transfixed by one of the highest-profile Supreme Court cases in living memory, the Court announced its long-awaited opinion in the challenges to the Affordable Care Act.
We hope it is a good one.
The following contribution to our post-decision symposium on the health care cases is written by Erwin Chemerinsky. Erwin is the founding dean and distinguished professor of law at the University of California, Irvine School of Law, with a joint appointment in Political Science.
The following contribution to our post-decision symposium on the health care cases is written by David E. Bernstein. David is the George Mason University Foundation Professor at the George Mason University School of Law in Arlington, Virginia, where he has been teaching since 1995.
The following contribution to our post-decision symposium on the health care cases is written by Ilya Shapiro, a senior fellow in constitutional studies at the Cato Institute and editor-in-chief of the Cato Supreme Court Review.
With the help of our reporter, Lyle Denniston, we will be live blogging as orders are issued today. Once you see the window and our initial welcome, we ask that you do not refresh your browser. Updates will appear without the need for refreshing. The live blog is below the jump.
Starting to think about the potential collateral consequences of the health care ruling, I think it is very likely that one of its major impacts will be to revive claims that several significant civil rights statutes, enacted under Congress’s Spending Power, are unconstitutional.