Statements made today mean little since the ruling will be sometime in June. That gives Obama and his cronies a long time to make phone calls and sway his insiders.
Hopefully, he’ll make snide ass remark about the Justices between now and then and they’ll all vote against it.
“Statements made today mean little since the ruling will be sometime in June. That gives Obama and his cronies a long time to make phone calls and sway his insiders.”
I disagree. First, the ruling does not have to come in June. It is merely presumed it will as that is the end of the term. They can rule next month if they are ready. 2) If by cronies you mean Soto and Kagan, look, they are having a hard time defending the Statute because it is BAD law. Bad law, and in this case, Sloppy law, is terribly hard to defend. The president will be gone in less than a year (at most 5 years) whereas these Justices’ rulings and reputations are part of history. Hence, imo they will try to help Obama, but there is little to nothing he can do to threaten them now. They are more powerful now than he frankly. Right now their arguments are falling like cheap suits. I’m sure they have no problem letting O. Reid and Pelosi take the fall all by themselves on this one; while their reputations can live to be saved later.
Statements made today mean little since the ruling will be sometime in June. That gives Obama and his cronies a long time to make phone calls and sway his insiders.