Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) recognized Breitbart News Jeremy Segal at the Supreme Court today and responded to his recent post at Breitbart News exposing how her office had desecrated the American Flag on the hood of a van during a
In their latest display of political ineptitude, House Republicans today held the contempt vote for Attorney General Eric Holder over his failure to turn over documents in the Fast and Furious scandal. They could not have picked a worse time
In an interview with CBS News Congressional correspondent Nancy Cordes, Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, said Thursday’s Supreme Court ruling was worth the political battle. Pelosi was Speaker when Democrats lost control of the House over the health care debate.
The focus on the Supreme Court’s Obamacare decision today seems to center around Chief Justice Roberts’ decision to rewrite Obamacare’s individual mandate as a “tax” rather than a mandate. This, of course, is egregious – the Supreme Court does not
After the disastrous Supreme Court ruling this morning on ObamaCare, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) said that the House Republicans will schedule a vote on repealing the health care law on July 11, after the House gets back from its recess. Cantor spoke of the
When The Affordable Care Act, or “Obamacare,” was being debated, Democrats objected to the health care legislation being labeled as “Obamacare,” saying it was derogatory and may even carry racial undertones. Even after the law passed, Democrats like Debbie Wasserman-Schultz,
Thank you, SCOTUS. This Obamacare ruling fires up the troops as America’s eyes are opened! Thank God.This proves to be such an unsettling time in America as we undergo the fundamental transformation that Barack Obama promised he would do to
In July 2005, against the objections of many conservatives, I penned a column excoriating President Bush for selecting Judge John Roberts as his candidate for Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. “President Bush’s Roberts pick disappoints,” I wrote: On Tuesday
The Supreme Court has ruled that most of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), aka ObamaCare, is constitutional, with the individual mandate actually surviving as a tax. Apparently, this decision means that the federal government can indeed force religious and other
The myth is finished. The Constitutional order was shredded long ago by a Congress that does not care about upholding it; an executive branch interested only in growing federal power; and a Supreme Court that sees itself as a super-Congress,
When he signed Obamacare into law in the East Room of the White House, President Barack Obama did not say a word how the law would impose a tax penalty on individuals who did not purchase private health insurance. After
Nancy Pelosi reacts the the Supreme Court ruling.
The U.S. Supreme Court has upheld Obama’s health care law in a confusing ruling that apparently indicates that it is constitutional as a tax, although the bill never refers to its fines and penalties as taxes. It is therefore more
Chief Justice John Roberts provided the critical fifth vote to uphold Obamacare in its entirety, in a case that will go down as one of the worst and most consequential cases in American history. Now the Taxing Clause of the
Speaker John Boehner: The president’s health care law is hurting oureconomy by driving up health costs and making it harder for smallbusinesses to hire. Today’s ruling underscores the urgency of repealingthis harmful law in its entirety. What Americans want is
CBS-Following the Supreme Court’s ruling largely upholding President Obama’s health care law Thursday, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., thanked SCOTUS for its decision and said that while the law “isn’t perfect,” he’s willing to work with Republicans to “improve
Ed Schultz reacts to Romney statement on Supreme Court ruling.
This morning, Chief Justice John Roberts joined the liberal wing of the Supreme Court to effectively remove all limits on federal power. While finding the individual mandate unconstitutional under the Commerce Clause, the Court upheld it as part of Congress’
Georgetown University law professor Randy Barnett, whom the Washington Post recently referred to as “perhaps the key legal thinker developing the case against the Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate,” issued a brief but pointed statement on the Supreme Court’s decision
Jenny Beth Martin, co-founder of the group “Tea Party Patriots”, told the masses in front of the Supreme Court that the Tea Party wasn’t going anywhere and that it “is up to us” to “defend the constitution.”
In a statement today in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision to uphold ObamaCare, presumptive GOP nominee Mitt Romney said he agreed with the opinion of those Justices who dissented and that he will act to repeal and replace
GOP Nominee Mitt Romney spoke out in response to the Supreme Court ruling upholding Obamacare.
According to Chief Justice John Roberts and his liberal colleagues on the Supreme Court, Congress does not have to call a tax a tax in order for it to be a tax. Congress can, in fact, create a penalty instead
Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairman Reince Priebus released the following statement regarding the Supreme Court’s decision on ObamaCare:
