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The Supreme Court has upheld President Obama's signature legislative accomplishment. Here's what it all means.
| Thu Jun. 28, 2012 8:36 AM PDT
It survived.
The largest expansion of the American welfare state since the Great Society stands, upheld by the most conservative Supreme Court in decades. Yet the decision is not simply a landmark ruling, it is a monumental setback for a conservative movement strategy meant to sabotage, by all available means, the presidency of Barack Obama.
"The Supreme Court just saved Obama's ass," says Adam Winkler, a professor at the UCLA School of Law.
The largest expansion of the American welfare state since the Great Society stands, upheld by the most conservative Supreme Court in decades. Yet the decision is not simply a landmark ruling, it is a monumental setback for a conservative movement strategy meant to sabotage, by all available means, the presidency of Barack Obama.
"The Supreme Court just saved Obama's ass," says Adam Winkler, a professor at the UCLA School of Law.
In a largely unexpected decision, Chief Justice John Roberts joined with
the four Democratic appointees on the court to keep the law alive,
upholding the individual mandate as a tax, not a legitimate government
regulation made possible by the Constitution's Commerce Clause. One man,
a conservative justice appointed by Obama's Republican predecessor,
George W. Bush, thwarted the right-wing assault on the Affordable Care
Act. (You can read the decision below.)
