Will the case against the state’s only abortion clinic make it to the Supreme Court?
Legal Affairs
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Can We Take John Roberts’s Word at Face Value?
Conservatives don’t seem to be able to.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Roberts’s Switch in Time
CBS News confirms what we were all thinking—the chief justice changed his mind about the Affordable Care Act decision.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Judges Take On Climate Skeptics
The D.C. Court of Appeals released an opinion last week that protects the EPA’s greenhouse-gas regulation from the scorn of those who protest climate-change prevention.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Reading the Tea Leaves in the Supreme Court Opinions
Did Chief Justice Roberts change his mind about the Affordable Care Act at the last minute? Whatever happened, it’s going to be a long time before we find out.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Court Stays Clear of Tinkering with the First Amendment
Xavier Alvarez may or may not qualify for mental-health care under the ACA, but the Court at least decides he won’t be going to jail.
Posted inLaw and Justice
What’s So Radical about Same-Sex Marriage?
Part Three in my response to David Blankenhorn’s half-hearted conversion to equality
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Supreme Surprise
Health-care reform survives another near-death experience.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
If Texas Doesn’t Expand Medicaid, Two Million Will Be Without Options
Yesterday’s ruling means they’ll have to cross their fingers and hope the state chooses to give them coverage.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Sometimes a Loss Is Just a Loss
Despite some pundits’ quibbles, Chief Justice Roberts’s opinion doesn’t constitute a win for conservatives.
