President Obama faces backlash over comments about the Supreme Court’s upcoming Obamacare ruling, but media mogul Rupert Murdoch thinks the president made himself look “silly.”
“Obama seems to agree with consensus view [that] obamacare going down,” Murdoch tweeted this morning. “Bullying supremes silly. People trust judges over politicians any time.”
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The president predicted last week that the court will uphold Obamacare, and he suggested that it would be an “extraordinary unprecedented event” if they did not. The Washington Examiner editors faulted him for “tak[ing] aim this way at our nation’s fair administration of justice” and, like countless others, observed that the Supreme Court exists to overturn unconstitutional laws passed by Congress.
In the face of such criticism, Obama acknowledged the Supreme Court’s constitutional authority, but argued that limiting Congress’s powers under the Commerce Clause would be unprecedented in the post-New Deal era.
When White House Press Secretary Jay Carney repeated this argument yesterday, CBS’s Norah O’Donnell explained that he was wrong, because the Supreme Court has overturned laws passed on the basis of the Commerce Clause twice in the last 30 years.
