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Health care ruling: Individual mandate upheld by Supreme Court — The Supreme Court upheld most of President Barack Obama's health care law Thursday, ruling that Congress did not overstep its power by requiring nearly all Americans to buy health insurance. — Chief Justice John Roberts joined …
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Supreme Court upholds health care law — Supporters of the Affordable Healthcare Act gather in front of the Supreme Court before the court's announcement of the legality of the law in Washington. — In a dramatic victory for President Barack Obama, the Supreme Court upheld …
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Lyle Denniston / SCOTUSblog:
Don't call it a mandate — it's a tax — Salvaging the idea that Congress did have the power to try to expand health care to virtually all Americans, the Supreme Court on Monday upheld the constitutionality of the crucial - and most controversial — feature of the Affordable Care Act.
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For SCOTUSblog, one goal: ‘Beat everybody’ and break news of health-care ruling — Linda Davidson/THE WASHINGTON POST - Lyle Denniston, 81, has covered the Supreme Court for nearly six decades. After working at several newspapers, he joined SCOTUSblog in 2004, though he says he has “no patience” for computers.
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Supreme Court upholds Obamacare 5-4 — Editor's note: We're live blogging from the Supreme Court today as the nation waits to see how the justices will rule on the health care law. You can follow along below as CNN Supreme Court Producer Bill Mears and Senior Legal Analyst Jeffrey Toobin …
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Supreme Court Lets Health Law Largely Stand — WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Thursday largely let stand President Obama's health care overhaul, in a mixed ruling that court observers were rushing to analyze. — The decision was a striking victory for the president and Congressional Democrats …
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Obama'S Legacy At Risk After Winning Health-Care Fight — The outcome of a 100-year fight for U.S. national health care rests on the verdict today of nine justices, who will emerge from behind a red velvet curtain. — Just four months before the presidential election …
Sam Baker / The Hill:
Supreme Court backs healthcare law in vindication for Obama — The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the insurance mandate in President Obama's healthcare law, a stinging defeat for conservatives who had insisted the law is unconstitutional. — The decision vindicates Obama and congressional Democrats …
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E.J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:
Justice Scalia must resign — Justice Antonin Scalia needs to resign from the Supreme Court. — He'd have a lot of things to do. He's a fine public speaker and teacher. He'd be a heck of a columnist and blogger. But he really seems to aspire to being a politician — and that's the problem.
John Hood / National Review:
The Mandate As Tax — Chief John Roberts may have flinched from doing what his fellow Republican-appointed justices were willing to do — strike down the individual mandate as a violation of the Commerce Clause — but he did so in a clever way. He resurrected an earlier argument …
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Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Supreme Court to rule Thursday on health-care law — The Supreme Court is scheduled to rule on the constitutionality of President Obama's health care legislation Thursday morning, a potentially game-changing, election-year decision that would define the power of the national government …
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Henninger: The President That Time Forgot — ObamaCare was a legislative monolith, out of sync with an iPad world. — Leaked national security secrets may be a dime a dozen now, but the Supreme Court still sits as the last major American institution that doesn't conduct its business out the back door.
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What the health care ruling means to you — (CNN) — The Supreme Court's decision Thursday to uphold the Affordable Care Act means that the predictions about how it will affect all Americans remain in place. — Read the court ruling (.PDF) — Here are some highlights: — The uninsured
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Do Republicans Really Want Universal Health Care?
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Carol E. Lee / Washington Wire:
Obama Prepares Three Speeches Ahead of Health-Care Ruling
Obama Prepares Three Speeches Ahead of Health-Care Ruling
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Supreme Court Upholds Mandate as Tax
Supreme Court Upholds Mandate as Tax
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Kevin Russell / SCOTUSblog:
Court holds that states have choice whether to join medicaid expansion
Court holds that states have choice whether to join medicaid expansion
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
CNN, Fox blow the Supreme Court ruling
CNN, Fox blow the Supreme Court ruling
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Mark Sherman / Associated Press:
High court upholds key part of Obama health law
High court upholds key part of Obama health law
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Amy Howe / SCOTUSblog:
Anticipating the health-care decision: In Plain English
Anticipating the health-care decision: In Plain English
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Ariane De Vogue / ABCNEWS:
Supreme Court: Health Care Mystery Unveiled
Supreme Court: Health Care Mystery Unveiled
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Michael D. Shear / The Caucus:
In 2006 Video, Romney Calls Health Care Mandate ‘Essential’
In 2006 Video, Romney Calls Health Care Mandate ‘Essential’
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Justin Sink / The Hill:
Romney: 'My guess is they're not sleeping real well at the White House'
Romney: 'My guess is they're not sleeping real well at the White House'
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Romney: I'll repeal it — Via POLITICO's Ginger Gibson, Mitt Romney delivered a no-questions statement on the health care ruling in front of a beautiful Washington backdrop, comments in which he, as expected, said he will repeal the law: … This is the frame, along it being upheld under …
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CNN Gets ObamaCare Decision Wrong
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JPMorgan Trading Loss May Reach $9 Billion — Losses on JPMorgan Chase's bungled trade could total as much as $9 billion, far exceeding earlier public estimates, according to people who have been briefed on the situation. — When Jamie Dimon, the bank's chief executive …
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Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic Online:
Why Is Nobody Listening to Jimmy Carter's Searing Critique of America? — The former president accuses his post-9/11 successors of breaking the law and trampling on human rights. That should be a bigger deal. — If you told the average American that there was a very powerful politician who …
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‘Today’ co-host Ann Curry will bid farewell today — Ann Curry's voice chokes when she talks about saying goodbye this morning on NBC's Today show, years earlier than she had hoped. — It's “going to be a bit of a tough day,” she told USA TODAY in a 40-minute phone interview Wednesday …
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Mark Murray / msnbc.com:
Polls: Obama, Romney neck-and-neck in Michigan, North Carolina, New Hampshire — A new round of NBC News-Marist polls shows President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney running almost neck-and-neck in three key battleground states, with Obama holding a slight advantage in Michigan and North Carolina …
Justin Sink / The Hill:
Black Caucus chairman vows ‘something dramatic’ during Holder contempt vote — The chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus said Thursday that he and other Democrats will walk out of the scheduled contempt vote against Attorney General Eric Holder in protest.
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Black lawmakers plan walkout during contempt vote
Black lawmakers plan walkout during contempt vote
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News Corporation Announces Intent to Pursue Separation of Businesses to Enhance Strategic Alignment and Increase Operational Flexibility — Separation Would Create Two Category-Leading Public Companies — News Corporation (NASDAQ: NWS, NWSA; ASX: NWS, NWSLV) today announced that it intends …
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John Jannarone / Wall Street Journal:
News Corp. Board Approves Split in Principle
News Corp. Board Approves Split in Principle
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