"...no president appears to have publicly characterized the court as political activists before, especially not before a decision has been rendered."

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“Sadly, even before the sessions on healthcare reform had ended, some liberals were preemptively trying to delegitimize a potential defeat at the court. … [T ]here’s a kind of cynicism, or at least intellectual laziness, in asserting that this is an easy or obvious call—that no justice could possibly strike down the mandate out of honest, reasoned conviction.” Unprecedented

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An Incomplete Contraceptive Coverage Compromise

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Friday’s highly publicized announcement, President Obama may have helped contain the political firestorm over the new federal mandate that health plans cover contraceptives. But the embers are still hot. And legally speaking, nothing has changed.

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