According to those in the know, most decisions are rendered shortly after the arguments, thus this case should have been decided a long time ago.
Hope my concern is for naught, but after yesterday's decision, can blame a person for being antsy.
It seems that I read here on FR that the cases are announced in order of importance or order of seniority by the judges writing the decision. In this case, I feel that the Supremes want it last so they can get out of town immediately after.
Worry? Why, this is how things always go with the court, the only difference is this time you are paying attention. All the hand wringing in the world is silly.
If the USSC says the government has the power to order people to buy a product or face a fine for simply breathing air, they have completely ignored the constitution and our entire federal government is null and void.
Now does that not mean that the liberals won’t vote the fed should be able to do it? Of course not, liberals never let things like the law stand in their way, but they won’t win. When the arguers for the law couldn’t answer the simple broccolli question, there is no way this thing is remaining as is.
Maybe the Justices saved it for last so they could turn off their cell phones and be out the door with no forwarding address by the time the decision reaches the media. Thus avoiding the immediate nasty fallout which will occur no matter which way they rule.
What if they knew striking it would lead to an unfortunate accident" either with themselves or close family? What if, given "offers they couldn't refuse", they had to look up all the horrid case decisions that could apply in order to look like this wasn't just an arbitrary ruling pulled outta their arses?
After all, even the king of England was prohibited by his lawyers from requiring the colonies to purchase only from English merchants, so there's a LOT of common law working against the mandate. But, then again, there's no shortage of horrid USSC decisions supported by nothing more than some horrid laughable attempt at sounding official (ie rationalizing), Kelo & Wickard spring immediately to mind.
It’s taking so long and coming up last because the SC ruling on healthcare will suck all the air out of the room.
It’s all people will be talking about, there will be confusion and protest, and the justices want to close up shop and head for the hills as soon as TSHTF.
probably because they want to get the hell out of dodge once the announcement is made...
For cases argued later in the term, SCOTUS typically releases opinions for the most controversial and/or high impact cases last.
According to those in the know, most decisions are rendered shortly after the arguments, thus this case should have been decided a long time ago.
Nope.
No.
Cases are generally heard in October, rulings handed down in June.
The term is October to October, with summer recess in late June or early July, after all decisions are released.
The most important decisions, written by the most senior judge, are AFAIK issued last. Other decisions are worthy of attention too, so get those out and looked at _before_ something is issued which will attract all interest. If they issued the ObamaCare decision first, nobody would pay any attention to, and would stomp all over the process of releasing, any other verdicts.
It struck me last night that the staggering of the decisions might not bode well for Obamacare being struck down. I think the most likely outcome is striking the mandate and leaving the rest alone, but with Kagan in the game and the last decision raising the possibility of a Roberts defection, its not impossible we’re in for a bumpier ride than we’ve planned for.
It could be the complete opposite I guess.. struck down in toto, and hopefully by 7-3 or greater. If its 5-4 again the libs are gonna go nuts. Might be fun to watch but its going to again lower the legitimacy of the court in the eyes of people who dislike the appearance of USSC partisanship.
I think it is taking so long because the court did not want to have to do business with throngs of labor, occupiers, candle burning religiots, acorn types types they expect to mob the building for days following their smack down of socialism. Read the ruling then flee.
My guess is that the SC knows that there will be protests no matter which way the decision goes, so they want to be issuing the ruling as they exit through a back entrance of the court. If they had issued the ruling earlier, they would have to stay in town and deal with the protesters, which they are too chicken to do. Just a guess.