How Appealing



Thursday, June 30, 2011

“Appeals court upholds health-care law’s individual mandate”: Jerry Markon has this article today in The Washington Post.

In today’s edition of The Wall Street Journal, Jess Bravin reports that “Appeals Court Says Health Law Is Constitutional.”

The Detroit News reports that “6th Circuit Appeals Court upholds Obama health care law.”

And at Time magazine’s “Swampland” blog, Massimo Calabresi has a post titled “A Closer Look at Obama’s Big Legal Win on Health Reform.”

Posted at 8:10 PM by Howard Bashman



“Term review: A more activist Court; The Court has just finished a Term in which its tendency to decide cases more broadly than necessary — an activist inclination — appeared to deepen.” Lyle Denniston has this post at “SCOTUSblog.”

Posted at 8:06 PM by Howard Bashman



“No Justice push for Thomas recusal”: Politico.com has an article that begins, “A current and a retired Supreme Court justice on Wednesday declined to criticize Justice Clarence Thomas for not recusing himself from cases that critics say he has a personal interest in because of his wife’s employment.”

Posted at 8:05 PM by Howard Bashman



Programming note: I’ll be out of the office this afternoon. As a result, additional posts will appear here later today.

Posted at 10:08 AM by Howard Bashman