Serving as the junior senator from Illinois, Barack Obama met in private quarters with a fellow graduate of Harvard Law School, John Roberts Jr., President George W. Bush’s nominee for chief justice of the Supreme Court . Obama cast a...
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Chief Justice John Roberts
Roberts Legacy Injected with Nuance
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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
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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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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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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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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Protesters against President Barack Obama's 2010 healthcare overhaul outside the Supreme Court on June 28, 2012.
‘Obamatax’ — New Republican Tack
Updated at Noon and 3 pm EDT Chief Justice John Roberts, penning the 5-4 opinion of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the central thrust of President Barack Obama’s health-care law today, offered a justification that is certain to echo on the...
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Mitt Romney in Sterling, Virginia, June 27, 2012.
Health Care Ruling Resets Campaign
Updated at 10:50 am EDT The story line is set. Yet now Republican Mitt Romney has some rewriting to do. If the Supreme Court were to overturn the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Romney said on the campaign...
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The Supreme Court is expected to release it's ruling on President Obama's health care reform law, the Affordable Care Act, later today.
Supreme Court Upholds Health Care
The justices of the Supreme Court arrived at the bench of a court filled with watchers, some of whom had lined up overnight, for a seat inside the chamber to hear the outcome of the biggest case of the year....
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A Tea Party activist protests in front of he U.S. Supreme Court on June 28, 2012 as the high court is expected to rule on the constitutionality of the sweeping health care law championed by President Barack Obama.
Healthy Fundraising Off a Big Ruling
The ruling is on its way. And, whichever way the Supreme Court rules this morning on President Barack Obama’s Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the fundraising is underway. “We don’t know what will happen this morning,” Obama campaign manager...
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Activists await a ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court on the controversial Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act in Washington on June 25, 2012.
Romney’s Health-Care `Preax’ Covering Two Bases
In any campaign, swift reaction is essential. But there’s more than “reax” in the hyperventilated news cycles of the 2012 campaign. There’s also “preax.” As Bloomberg’s Julie Davis reports from the road today, Republican Mitt Romney today has issued his...
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