4:43 p.m. With their work complete, the justices can now begin their three-month summer break. Where are they headed? Blooomberg Law has a full report: 3:44 p.m. Republicans in states that sued to overturn the health care law...
Read more »It’s Roberts’ Moment to Define His Court
Chief Justice John Roberts did little to show his hand during this week’s health care reform law oral arguments. And that puts him in a position to define the Roberts Court in one of its biggest cases, pundits and reporters...
Read more »Will Health Care Cases Bring Landmark Decisions?
We gathered four of the smartest legal observers around and asked them — before this week’s arguments in the health care reform cases took place — whether the cases would result in truly landmark decisions. Would the opinions alter the...
Read more »GOP Ad Uses Doctored SCOTUS Audio
The GOP ad released online earlier this week makes it appear Solicitor General Donald Verrilli gave a worse presentation than he did, a Bloomberg News analysis of the ad and the court’s official audio recording shows. The full story follows:...
Read more »5 Health Care Takeaways X 3
The Wall Street Journal, Politico and The Week magazine all provide five key takeaways from yesterday’s final day of arguments in the Obama health care reform cases. But they’re not the same five: Wall Street Journal The Court Won’t Wait...
Read more »Candidates & Business Have Much Riding on Health Care Outcome
Bloomberg News’ Mike Dorning reports the Supreme Court’s ruling on health care — expected in late June — will have a significant impact on the Presidential election campaign: Striking down the health-care overhaul that President Barack Obama pushed through Congress...
Read more »What Will the Court Decide? Who the Heck Knows.
Slate’s Supreme Court correspondent Dahlia Lithwick throws up her hands at the end of three days of oral arguments, no more clear about what the court will decide than she was going into the sessions: Amid all the three-day psychodrama,...
Read more »Listen to the Justices’ Own Words
Bloomberg TV provides audio highlights of Wednesday’s arguments about whether the entire Obama health care reform law should be struck down if the individual mandate is struck.
Read more »Wednesday’s Arguments: What the Justices Said
The U.S. Supreme Court yesterday entertained final oral arguments in the case that will determine the fate of the landmark federal health care reform law, considering two questions regarding how much of the statute will survive if the court strikes...
Read more »Tuesday’s Arguments: What the Justices Said
The health reform law’s requirement that most Americans buy health insurance by 2014 or pay a penalty received a two-hour airing yesterday, as the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments on the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care...
Read more »Live Blog: Wednesday’s Health Care Arguments
4:33 p.m. Today’s live blog is ending. Be sure to check back to the main blog page tomorrow for more analysis about the health care reform cases from Bloomberg and other sources. 4:30 p.m. Bloomberg News Supreme Court reporter Greg...
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