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Supreme Court Health Care Arguments to Begin Monday
The United States Supreme Court Building. (Photo: David Baron) Washington - The circus surrounding the Supreme Court health care arguments this week will begin before dawn Monday. Demonstrators will …
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Health Care Jujitsu
Not surprisingly, today’s debut Supreme Court argument over the so-called “individual mandate” requiring everyone to buy health insurance revolved around epistemological niceties such as the meaning of a “tax,” …
Obamacare Battle Will Be a Proxy Fight of Divisions in American Politics
The Obamacare battle that will come before the Supreme Court in the longest hearings in nearly a half-century is a proxy fight between the seemingly irreconcilable differences in American …
Truthout Talks With Thom Hartmann About His Legacy as an Author
Thom Hartmann: I've been writing since I was 12 years old. When I left my parents' home when I was 16, I'd wallpapered my bedroom with 56 rejection slips, …
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At Heart of Health Law Clash, a 1942 Case of a Farmer’s Wheat
Washington - If the Obama administration persuades the Supreme Court to uphold its health care overhaul law, it will be in large part thanks to a 70-year-old precedent involving an Ohio farmer named Roscoe …
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Corporations Are People; Money Is Speech
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Unequal Protection: The Court Takes the Presidency
(Image: JR / Truthout) On December 12, 2000, the U.S. Supreme Court granted yet another gift to corporate power—and hammered yet another nail into the coffin of …
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Representative Murphy Says Thomas’ Actions Call Into Question Whether He “Can Continue to Serve as a Justice“
In an exclusive interview with ThinkProgress, Rep. Chris Murphy (D-CT) — the lead sponsor of a bill which would strip Supreme Court justices of their immunity from a code …
Unequal Protection: The Deciding Moment?
Part of the American Revolution was about to be lost a century after it had been fought.