It must have been one of those rare lucid moments.
Posted on 06/15/2012 5:34:36 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
On eve of health ruling, Ruth Bader Ginsburg predicts 'sharp disagreement' By: Kyle Cheney June 15, 2012 07:23 PM EDT
With a wry smile, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg laid waste Friday to all those rumors about the fate of the Affordable Care Act in the Supreme Court.
“Those who know don’t talk. And those who talk don’t know,” she quipped Friday night at a conference hosted by the American Constitution Society at the Capital Hilton.
Ginsburg said she was responding to a "steady stream of rumors and fifth-hand accounts" about the court's deliberations on the law.
(Also on POLITICO: Democrats in the dark on how to respond to SCOTUS ruling)
Careful not to tip her hand on the court’s ruling — expected in the next two weeks — Ginsburg described the oral arguments in the case as unprecedented for the number of “press conferences, prayer circles, protests and counterprotests” that occurred on the courthouse steps.
Although she offered no insight into the tightly held decisions of her colleagues, Ginsburg did indicate that many of the court’s decisions over the next two weeks — which are also expected to include an FCC indecency ruling — might be close.
The 21 remaining decisions, she said, were “many of the most controversial cases” that the court reviewed this term.
“It is likely that the sharp disagreement rate will go up next week and the week after,” she said.
Although the oral arguments on the ACA spanned six hours over three days, she noted that a case cited during those arguments — McCullough v. Maryland — featured oral arguments that spanned nine days over two months.
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Did she nod off during the interview?
“Weekend at Ruthie’s”
What better proof do you need? Anybody could do this job! They do have opinions, and delegate the task of writing to literate eager beavers straight out of law schools!
Like a 5-4 decision is going to be a big shock to anybody.
As well as the wise lesbian.
Yup...if it was going to be upheld, she's be singing Kum by Yah and praising the great wisdom of the court..
There is absolutely no way that 0dumb0's two commie pig Supreme Court appointees, Sotamayer and Kagan, will vote against 0dumb0shit's signature bill of his reign of terror. It will be LUCKY indeed if this is shot 6-3, but I think it will more likely be struck down 5-4. I am praying that Anthony Kennedy will grow some balls and do the right thing according to the U.S. Constitution.
My reasononing is: The two new appointees will need to make their impression on Scotus now, show their independence from Obama, and therefore go with the other six that vote to kill it, leaving the nutcase all by herself. All she wants to prove is that South Africa’s constitution is superior.
I heard or read that they will adjorn on the 25th. So that is the last day to release the decision. I think Laura Ingraham said that.
“I reiterate my prior prediction- Eight votes to kill Obamacare, Ginsburg the lone dissent.”
I pray you are correct.
“Make no mistake, this recent stunt was a test run.”
Yes, that and the “recess” appointments, and the HHS mandate.
Dear Leader has really been pushing the envelope.
Re-electing this man would be very dangerous I think.
BTW, LOVE your tag line.
Don’t you love the way they name things by their opposites?
How can you take a SCOTUS jurist seriously when she’s abandoned the Constitution she’s sworn to uphold? This is why we need to defeat Obama. We need to replace her and appoint a Jewish Clarence Thomas to the bench.
You’re right, otherwise what would be the point of her statement.
LOL!
Oh, implying that there's a prayer's chance in Hell that she may have ruled to strike it down?
Right.
I concur. “Sharp disagreement” refers to a minority opinion, either her’s or the wise(azz) Latina. If she were referring to a Thomas or Scalia minority opinion, she wouldn’t have characterized it as gentlemanly as “disagreement”.
And you may be spot on re: broccoli chopping and individual mandate, versus the whole. Ironically that is the singular worst possible outcome for Bobo. Can’t run against the Supremes, can’t connive a new way to fund it either.
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