The most important U.S. Supreme Court decision during a president’s re-election campaign may not have fundamentally changed the dynamics of the 2012 race. In the hours after the court upheld President Barack Obama’s health-care law, both he and his Republican...
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Supporter in front of the U.S. Supreme Court as the high court upheld President Obama's health care overhaul.
Obama’s Health Care Win May Help Him Now More Than in November
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U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill on June 12, 2012.
Holder vote: Contempt of Congress
In the second ring today: Half the Democrats walked out of the U.S. House as Republican leaders conducted a vote to find Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress for failing to deliver documents about the “Fast and Furious”...
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Obama’s `Dewey Defeats Truman’
CNN and Fox News got it wrong. And a “quizzical” President Barack Obama got it from them. Among the first broadcast words on the Supreme Court’s health-care ruling, that is. When the cable news networks first reported that the court...
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Protesters planned to 'occupy' the U.S. Supreme Court, as well as courthouses across the country, in a show of protest against the two-year anniversary of the controversial Citizens United ruling.
Corporations: Hands-Off Candidates
While the Supreme Court has opened a floodgate of contributions to committees promoting or opposing candidates, a federal appeals court says the prohibition against corporations contributing directly to candidates remains: As Bloomberg’s Tom Schoenberg reports, a three-judge appeals panel in Richmond,...
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Protester outside the U.S. Supreme Court on June 28, 2012.
Court Has Spoken, Now Voters Will
Updated at 3:30 pm EDT “The Supreme Court may have made their decision, but the American people haven’t,” says the narrator of Republican Mitt Romney’s first post-health-care ruling TV ad. It calendars a new date: Nov. 6, 2012. The message...
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Protesting against the Affordable Care Act in front of the U.S. Supreme Court on June 28, 2012.
McCarthy: Health-care Bottom Line
With politicians of the highest rank and interest groups of the most obscure weighing in with reaction to and assessments of today’s U.S. Supreme Court decision upholding the core of President Barack Obama’s health-care overhaul, the award for the pithiest...
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The U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team/National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center facility in Arlington, Virginia.
Cybersecurity Gov’t Spending Boom
Hackers, crackers and script kiddies take note: The federal government is spending to keep your prying fingers out of places they don’t belong. Cybersecurity contractors should pay attention as well. A Bloomberg Government study finds that cybersecurity spending during the...
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President Barack Obama at the White House following the Supreme Court's ruling on the Affordable Care Act on June 28, 2012.
Obama: Time to Put Politics Aside
President Barack Obama, speaking from the White House after the U.S. Supreme Court upheld his health-care law, said today that it’s time to start focusing on implementing, and even improving, the law. Obama, contending that the Patient Protection and Affordable...
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Protesters outside the Supreme Court on June 28, 2012.
Dueling Instant Health-Care Videos
In the world of pre-packaged media, it doesn’t take long for some highly polished productions to hit the Internet on a day like this. “The final verdict on the Obama health care law is now in your hands,” says the...
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A protester against the Supreme Court ruling on healthcare on June 28, 2012.
Romney Reports Cash Infusion: $1 M
Updated at 2 pm and 2:30 pm EDT Mitt Romney supporters opened their wallets immediately following today’s Supreme Court decision upholding the core of President Barack Obama’s health-care law, according to the Republican candidate’s campaign. By 11:30 a.m., less than...
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