Tag: Supreme Court

President Obama's health care law is one step closer to making it back to the Supreme Court, as challengers on Thursday asked justices to review whether it was illegal for residents of 36 states to receive federal subsidies to help them purchase insurance -- a matter that has divided lower courts. (AP/Haraz N. Ghanbari)

Beltway Confidential

Challengers to Obamacare’s federal exchange subsidies ask for Supreme Court hearing

Philip Klein · July 31, 2014 8:21 pm

The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals agreed on Thursday to rehear a case over subsidies in President Obama's healthcare law, making it potentially less likely that the case will wind up at the U.S. Supreme Court. (iStock Photo)

Father of Obamacare makes a ‘Speak-O’

Larry Elder · July 31, 2014 2:31 pm

Supreme Court poised to revisit gay marriage issue

Supreme Court poised to revisit gay marriage issue

Sean Lengell · July 29, 2014 3:36 pm

True, the Halbig case, if it makes its way to the Supreme Court, will present an opportunity for Chief Justice John Roberts to redeem himself from his abominably activist salvation of Obamacare. But more important, it will be an opportunity for the high court to reaffirm this nation's commitment to the rule of law. (iStock Image)

Halbig case is an opportunity for Supreme Court to rededicate itself to rule of law

David Limbaugh · July 29, 2014 2:22 pm

Following the Hobby Lobby Supreme Court decision, one of the key talking points that emerged from enraged opponents of the ruling was: "My boss shouldn't be involved in my health care decisions." (iStock Photo)

Opposition to Hobby Lobby decision highlights problem with mandates

Scott Rasmussen · July 25, 2014 3:06 pm

Is this what a war on women looks like? Reflections from the steps of the Supreme Court

Mary Therese Drury · July 25, 2014 2:43 pm

An unidentified Arizona state prison guard adjusts the straps on the gurney used for lethal injections at the Arizona State Prison at Florence in this undated photo provided by the Arizona Department of Corrections. (AP Photo/Arizona Department of Corrections)

Could Arizona fiasco lead to firing squads for death penalty?

Byron York · July 24, 2014 10:30 pm

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., and GOP lawmakers speak to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, June 3, 2014, following a Republican caucus meeting. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Protecting free speech means standing up for it no matter what

Mitch McConnell · July 24, 2014 8:31 pm

The Citizens United ruling acknowledged that the First Amendment's legal prohibition on Congress making no law infringing on speech meant what it said. (iStock Photo)

Lawsuits tackle Lois Lerner syndrome among state attorneys general

Mark Fitzgibbons · July 24, 2014 8:02 pm

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Beltway Confidential

The frontrunner for silliest thing said about the Halbig decision emerges

Becket Adams · July 24, 2014 5:01 pm

Supreme Court upholds firing of tourism director

Supreme Court upholds firing of tourism director

Washington Examiner · July 23, 2014 6:51 pm

In his infamous opinion deciding that the individual mandate was constitutional, Chief Justice John Roberts wrote: "The text of a statute can sometimes have more than one possible meaning." (AP Photo)

Will Chief Justice John Roberts decide a ‘state’ is not a ‘state’?

Terence Jeffrey · July 23, 2014 2:44 pm