Supreme Court Rejects Virginia Request for Review of Health Care Law

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[ejdrapes]

Supreme Court Rejects Virginia Request for Review of Health Care Law

[ejdrapes]

Just breaking news banner on Fox so far...

[Christian Engineer Mass]

5-4 to evil eh?

[ScottinVA]

Sounds like Anthony Kennedy had a bad-hair day. But this is just to bypass the appeals courts, I believe.

[paulycy]

Is this just the expedite ruling, to make it go faster?

[jla]

Your header is false. SCOTUS rejected fast-tracking the review. It will yet end up in the SCOTUS, just not as soon as Cuccinelli would prefer.

[ejdrapes]

Well it's going to end up with them anyway. Why all the delay?

[jla]

To 4 - Yes.

[ejdrapes]

That's the header on Fox News's website. I didn't think we were allowed to alter headers.

[AuH2ORepublican]

Where does it say 5-4? The link only had a banner with the headline.

It takes 4 (out of 9) Justices to grant a writ of certiorari to hear an appeal; I honestly don't know if there's a higher threshold for an appeal directly from a district court.

[org.whodat]

Probably just saying they will not hears it until fall,

[ejdrapes]

Apparently so, but they didn't say that on Fox Business (where I first heard it). When Stuart Varney read it out he had a look on his face like a member of his family died.

[cashless]

What is the number of justices that need to agree to hear the case? Did we just witness a cloaked 5-4 ruling? Or did just one justice say no and who was it? My money is on Butch.

[org.whodat]

Summer vacation, starts end of may.

[jla]

You may alter it in (parentheses).

[jla]

...or clarify in lead-off post.

[ejdrapes]

I would have clarified if I had known that.

[TribalPrincess2U]

Choosing, for now, to remain on the sidelines of the national constitutional debate over the new health care law, the Supreme Court refused on Monday to put Virginia’s challenge to the law on a fast track with review by the Justices ahead of any appeals court decisions. There were no dissents noted, and there was no comment. The Court granted no new cases.

The legal side of the health care controversy will now revert to six federal courts of appeals where challenges are unfolding; the first hearing in one of those cases will be May 10 at the Fourth Circuit Court in Richmond, Va.

[ejdrapes]

I believe it is 4.

[LowTaxesEqualsProsperity]

Dereliction of duty.

Clowns wearing black robes.

The Constitution means nothing to them anymore.

[paratrooper82]

This may be great news, since the US Supreme Court [conservative] Justices do want to come across as “eager” to over turn the Obama administration's signature law “obamacare.” this way, when the Justices do finally get the case before them, (after exhausting the Federal Appeals process) they can use those findings (opinions) to overturn the massive government usurpation of Americans basic Rights.

These conservative Justices are not stupid, especially when they all know that the Obamanites, i.e. old news media, blogs etc., will disseminate them if they jump the gun on this issue and rule against Obama.

They are simply going to overturn Obama by the book, by the letter of the law, and strictly by the limitations found in our Constitution.