U.S. Supreme Court takes up healthcare in secrecy

Reuters ^ | 3/30/12 | James Vicini

[Lmo56]

* Private conferences held with only justices attending

* Confidentiality drilled into clerks "from day one"

* No leaks of Supreme Court rulings in recent decades

By James Vicini

WASHINGTON, March 30 (Reuters) - U.S. Supreme Court justices on Friday held closed-door deliberations on President Barack Obama's healthcare overhaul law, likely casting preliminary votes on how they will eventually rule on their highest-profile case in years.

In an institution known for keeping its secrets, no leaks are likely before formal opinions have been written and announced from the bench. That is not expected to occur until late June, when the court is set to go on its regular summer recess.

[Timber Rattler]

I guarantee that as soon as the conference was over, Kagan closed her office door and called (or emailed) the White House with the results of the secret vote. To find out what the decision is, just watch how Obama and his flying monkeys behave in the coming days and weeks...either their panic or smugness will tell the tale.

[JimSEA]

You may well be right since Kagan is the most “political” justice since Abe Fortas.

[princess leah]

She is the “JUDAS ISCARIOT” in the room.....No, it’s not about clerks - it’s those IN the room that will squeal - That Kagan didn’t excuse herself from these whole proceeedings ought to bring IMMEDIATE IMPEACHMENT AGAINST her but no REPUBLICAN LEADER has the *(*(guts to stand up and proceed with the CONSTITUTION BEHIND THEM!

[princess leah]

She is the “JUDAS ISCARIOT” in the room.....No, it’s not about clerks - it’s those IN the room that will squeal - That Kagan didn’t excuse herself from these whole proceeedings ought to bring IMMEDIATE IMPEACHMENT AGAINST her but no REPUBLICAN LEADER has the *(*(guts to stand up and proceed with the CONSTITUTION BEHIND THEM!

[television is just wrong]

I think it is just wrong anyhow, but they don’t care what I think.