According to Judge Napolitano on Fox Business just now, the SCOTUS DID NOT AGREE TO HEAR THE OBAMACARE CASE! But rather it has agreed to hear whether or not those bringing the case “HAVE THE STANDING TO DO SO!”
Personally, I think we need to impeach all of these a$$holes! The country is burning and they continue to fiddle! They are a total disgrace to this nation, every last one of them. They all need to be replaced.
This is a really important point. If they rule against standing, then the whole process would have to start over and drag out for more years. Much like the many rulings against Obama's NBC status, this would be a strategy to not rule on the issue.
This is incorrect. SCOTUS will decide the constitutionality of the law.
http://www.scotusblog.com/2011/11/court-sets-5-12-hour-hearing-on-health-care/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+scotusblog%2FpFXs+%28SCOTUSblog%29
This is easily the best website for all things supreme.
Does that mean the 29 states?
Standing is not an issue in these cases.
The Court granted cert. in four cases, raising the following four issues:
1. Does the Anti-Injunction Act prevent the courts from hearing a challenge to the Act before it goes into effect? (1 hour of argument granted). This is not a "standing" issue, but if the Court decides that the Anti-Injunction Act applies, the courts can't decide the constituionality of the Act until the individual mandate goes into effect. Some of the legal blogs are suggesting that this approach may appeal to Justice Kennedy, because if Congress repeals the Act following the 2012 elections, the constitutional issue will never come up.
2. If the Anti-Injunction Act doesn't apply, is the individual mandate constitutional? (2 hours of argument granted).
3. If the individual mandate is unconstitutional, should it be severed or should the entire Act be struck down? (90 minutes of argument granted).
4. Is the portion of the Act requiring states to increase Medicaid funding constitutional? (1 hour of argument granted). This is a surprise, because none of the lower courts (even the ones which struck down the individual mandate) found this provision unconstitutional.
Incidentally, 5-1/2 hours of argument in the Supreme Court is unprecedented in modern times. They didn't hear that much argument even in Brown v. Board of Education. So the Court clearly recognizes that this is a uniquely important case.