Conservatives are not accustomed to being on the defensive. ...
The Huffington Post | Mollie Reilly | Posted 04.07.2012
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) expressed his disapproval of the president's recent comments about the Supreme Court, apparently referring to Obama as "s...
Chris Weigant | Posted 04.06.2012
Conservatives, ever since Obama spoke on Monday, have been clutching at their metaphorical handkerchiefs and swooning in Victorian anguish over Obama's words. Which is downright hilarious.
Marvin Ammori | Posted 04.06.2012
There's a strong case to be made that Obama should run against the Supreme Court however the health-care case turns out, and that his campaign should begin that effort today.
AP | MICHAEL KUNZELMAN | Posted 04.06.2012
NEW ORLEANS — A federal judge who called out President Barack Obama for saying it would be "unprecedented" for the Supreme Court to strike down ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 04.05.2012
WASHINGTON -- After decades of turning judges into political targets, conservatives who once railed against activism from the bench are plaintively de...
Harvey Rosenfield | Posted 04.05.2012
Anti-government forces realize that once Americans begin to receive the benefits of universal health care -- no denials for pre-existing conditions, no medical underwriting, no caps on benefits -- they won't want to give them up.
HuffingtonPost.com | Mike Sacks | Posted 04.05.2012
WASHINGTON -- Continuing the politically charged back-and-forth between the executive and judicial branches over President Barack Obama's health care ...
AP | CARLA K. JOHNSON | Posted 04.04.2012
CHICAGO — U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said Wednesday that the Justice Department will respond "appropriately" to a federal appellate judge...
Greta Van Susteren | Posted 04.04.2012
What President Obama did two days ago when he bullied the Supreme Court and called them "unelected" and essentially threatened them was wrong. It also made him look like a fool. He was certainly not acting like a leader but a schoolyard bully who wants his way at any cost.
Posted 04.04.2012
President Obama is becoming a "bully" on some issues that are key to his administration, South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley (R) charged on Wednesday morn...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 04.04.2012
WASHINGTON -- The wrangling between the judicial and executive branches over President Barack Obama's health care law grew even more contentious on Tu...
Greta Van Susteren | Posted 06.02.2012
Every law school -- yes, even Harvard Law School -- teaches the landmark case Marbury v. Madison. It was decided in 1803 (yes, 1803!). You read it your first year in law school.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 04.02.2012
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama offered his first public comments on the Supreme Court's hearing of his signature health care law, telling report...
Geoffrey R. Stone | Posted 05.28.2012
If the conservative justices on the Supreme Court, who are, after all, very good lawyers, rely on bad arguments to defend a decision to invalidate the Affordable Care Act, then we know something is going on.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 03.23.2012
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama's administration has not developed plans for a legislative replacement for health care reform's most contentious ...
AP | MARK SHERMAN | Posted 04.06.2012
WASHINGTON — A second term for President Barack Obama would allow him to expand his replacement of Republican-appointed majorities with Democrat...
AP | RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR | Posted 01.15.2012
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama's historic health care overhaul divided the nation from the day he signed it into law, and that seems unlike...
AP | JESSE J. HOLLAND | Posted 11.13.2011
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is moving at a historic pace to try to diversify the nation's federal judiciary: Nearly three of every four ...
AP | MARK SHERMAN | Posted 08.25.2011
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court's conservative majority made it harder for people to band together to sue the nation's largest businesses in the ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011
Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT), in perhaps the least-discussed Senate race in the country, offered a strong hint as to why he's running for a seventh term ...
AP | MARK SHERMAN | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Solicitor General Elena Kagan would be the first person in 38 years to join the Supreme Court without first serving as a judge. She...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011
Just days before the president is expected to announce his choice for the Supreme Court, the perceived front-runner for that post is being plagued by ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011
President Obama and Vice President Biden both met separately today with potential Supreme Court pick Diane Wood, a source with knowledge of the conver...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011
White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs caused a stir on Monday when he told reporters that he could not rule out the president announcing his pick f...
The Washington Post | Posted 04.09.2012