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Those on the right who had hoped for a speedy review of President Obama's healthcare reform before the U.S. Supreme Court will be rather disappointed by this latest bit of news: "Supreme Court rejects call to put review of health care law on fast track"; http://www.washingtonpost.com/... and also, Supreme Court Rejects Early Review of Health Care Law;
http://thepage.time.com/2011/0...
You see it is out of the ordinary for the SCOTUS to fast track judicial review outside of moments of wartime or in the event of a constitutional crisis. Quoting from the article:"The Supreme Court rejected a call Monday from Virginia's attorney general to depart from its usual practice and put review of the health care law on a fast track. Instead, judicial review of President Barack Obama's signature legislation will continue in federal appeals courts...So far, five federal judges have ruled on challenges to the law. Two Republican appointees, in Florida and Virginia, have declared it unconstitutional in whole or in part. Three Democratic appointees, in Michigan, Virginia and Washington, D.C., have upheld it." At the current rate "Obamacare won't reach the high court until sometime next summer. What's apparent in all of this is that for all of the blather on the far right about Obama circumventing and jeopardizing the Constitution, those who are charged with it's interpretation know otherwise and thus have dismissed this sort of nonsense for what it is.
SJG
4/25/11 |
