The legal health care battle is foremost a political match, which means precedents don’t matter quite as much.
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Pre-Game’s Over. Now Begins the Health-Care Fight.
DAY 1: The Affordable Care Act armageddon arrives in full red-and-blue fury tomorrow. Today was just the opening shot.Â
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Will the Supreme Court Duck Health Care?
The Supreme Court has methods of getting out of politically contentious cases, but it doesn’t need to wield them for this week’s big case.
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Now Is the Law of Their Discontent
The biggest arguments against the Affordable Care Act exist far more in the political realm than the legal.Â
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Precedents for the Unprecedented
The Comprehensive Baseball Bat Act that never quite materialized sheds light on the health-care case.
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“That’s Specious Reasoning, Representative”
Arbitrarily classifying a number of murders as not-crimes is a good way to reduce reported violent crime rates, but it doesn’t actually reduce violence.
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The Roberts Court Joins the War On Women
When Daniel Coleman asked for sick leave from his job at the Appeals Court of Maryland, he was told he would be fired. The state’s actions violated the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), passed by Congress in 1993. Unfortunately, thanks to the Roberts Court, Coleman has a right without an appropriate remedy. A bare […]
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The History of Florida’s “Stand Your Ground” Law
The English common-law origins of the legislation at the center of the investigation into Trayvon Martin’s death
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George Zimmerman’s Collaborators
If he gets away with killing Martin, it’s not just the statute that bears responsibility.
