And remember you are asking the Court to 1) forget about the verbal bitch slap Obama gave them at the State of The Union and 2) ignore the “You better not overturn it bitches” warning he read them a couple months ago.
Liberal or not, the Court is not going to go out of it’s way to give Obama anything he wants if it makes them look like they are cowing under to the Executive Branch, as an “inferior” and submissive branch of government to the President.
Mandate is gone. Whether the whole law is is another matter.
I agree. I think many are thinking short term instead of long term. The Dems have done a great job of convincing people *in the short term* that disagreeing with them = judicial activism. 20 years from now, nobody is going to remember which were the hot-button issues of the day and which weren’t. They WILL remember, however, rulings that don’t seem to make sense. Historians will remember if the SCOTUS bowed to pressure from the White House.
If I’m a SC Justice, I’m more concerned about my long term legacy than my short term legacy. I can handle hippies not liking me for a few months until they rot those brain cells. Not so keen, though, on history judging me as a hack for all eternity. If the Justices think the way I do (and I have no idea if they do), the attacks on their integrity make Obamacare LESS likely to be upheld.
I just wish I shared the confidence of the majority of FR... :/