That headline is grossly misleading, and it’s clear a number of folks didn’t follow the link or don’t know what the actual issue is. The Administration’s brief is opposing EXPEDITING the VA AG’s challenge, not the case itself. They will do that later.
Sure, they are hoping to stall and delay in the hope that a Republican-appointed Justice may retire or God forbid, die. Or maybe they hope that popular opinion will chanage Or that the law’s implementation will be too far advanced to reverse by the time it’s taken up in the normal course of legal maneuverings.
But this particular brief is what the Solicitor General is supposed to do, and what Solicitors General have done for untold cases through every Administration. And it is NOT telling the Court to stay away from health care. It is responding only to a petition to expedite the VA case being heard.
Thank you, I was going to reply with the same response.
It’s expected that the O Administration did this, as it’s their strategy to get an opposing ruling that his liberal friends on the SC can base their decision on (as Sotomayor isn’t likely smart enough to compose anything to counter the original judge’s order). He wants it to go to SCOTUS 1-1, not 1-0, in sports terms.
He is an arrogant ass, but in this situation, they are doing what anyone would do. That said, I hope the court does reject it and expedites it to SCOTUS.