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Quotes From Oral ArgumentsThe coblogs, particularly @drewmtips and @rdbrewer4, are quoting the transcripts of today's hearing in emails. Seems worth a post. [DrewM, commenting, then quoting:] Alito... really destroys the whole "we have to do this because of free riders"/non participation is participation argument. The fact is, they are creating free, well subsidized, riders....JUSTICE ALITO: But isn't that a very small part of what the mandate is doing? You can correct me if these figures are wrong, but it appears to me that the CBO has estimated that the average premium for a single insurance policy in the non-group market would be roughly $5,800 in -- in 2016. rd, from page 103: Page 103: I don't like this next part: He seems to concede that here, the market really is unique (and hence would be a pretext to permit the "regulation," if he so chose). If I follow him correctly. But I think it is true that if most questions in life are matters of degree, in the insurance and health care world, both markets -- stipulate two markets -- the young person who is uninsured is uniquely proximately very close to affecting the rates of insurance and the costs of providing medical care in a way that is not true in other industries. rd, from pages 4-6: USTICE KENNEDY: Can you create commerce in order to regulate it? rd rounds up some more quotes by Kennedy, since he was (at least before today) considered a swing vote. He seems highly skeptical of the Government's assertion it can do almost anything as long as it's arguably For the Children (TM) and "affects" interstate commerce. PP 4-5: Can you create commerce in order to regulate it? To be honest, Kennedy seems a lot more equivocal than liberal commentators imagined. A lot of his statements (like the one from page 24, above) are very on the fence. The goal of the government in this sort of case is to get a limited blessing for exactly what you've done, with some kind of suggested rule suggesting what you did here was different from other hypothetical cases. You don't want, or need, some Major Sweeping Opinion blessing all hypothetical exercises of government power. You want to offer the justices a justification for saying "This one thing is okay, other things probably aren't." So in that way you give the justice a fig leaf, a fig leaf to convince himself he's not just blessing any assertion of government power willy-nilly. My fear here, a little heightened by Kennedy's remarks, is that he's amenable to just such a pitch. Open Minded? In the last few minutes, Allah's put up a post seizing upon the same quotes, also seeing the Weather Vane Spinning in the wind. You have to understand justices-- they want to make small waves. They want to rule on the smallest grounds possible, creating the least new law going forward. They will not go (generally) for something that they perceive as "fundamentally altering the relationship between citizen and government." Nor do they easily knock down a law passed by Congress, signed by a president. So if you offer them a middle ground, or something disguised to look like a middle ground, they just might go for it. Pitch them the idea that this is unique and limited to this one single area of activity and hence will not provide precedent or justification for further expansions of power, but will remain limited to just this one little thing. Pitch them that, and a Weather Vane might spin your way. We're not asking you to eat the whole of the Forbidden Fruit. Of course you'd be aghast at such a suggestion. We're just saying-- take a little nibble. Just a small little nibble, and then, cross our hearts, we'll put the Forbidden Fruit away and won't touch it ever again. It's just a little nibble. What could it hurt? Full Audio and Full Transcript: Audio, and full transcript. Roberts Isn't A Swing Vote? Very smart analysis of the words Roberts' used in questioning both sides. When grilling Obama's lawyers, he associated himself with the arguments he was making -- using the words "it seems to me." That is, agreeing with the premise of his question. But when grilling the opponents of ObamaCare, he kept referring to "the goverment's position" and "the government's argument" and so on. In other words, not signalling any personal agreement, but merely taking the government's position and asking the opponents about it. Based on that, his inclination, at least, seems to be one of skepticism of the government's position. "It seems to him" the government has overreached. | Recent Comments
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