SCOTUS drives a stake through the heart of America
There is one thing the justices forgot amid their deliberations on health care. That is the other court that is even more powerful than the Supreme Court — the court of public opinion.
There is one thing the justices forgot amid their deliberations on health care. That is the other court that is even more powerful than the Supreme Court — the court of public opinion.
Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson “takes New Mexico off the table for Mitt Romney,” one Democratic strategist is asserting in a new article by Politico.
So what was sown by these U.S. Supreme Court decisions that we may as a nation harvest? The one thing we know is that there will be more lawsuits and more uncertainty.
Do we really contemplate thumbing our nose at the federal funds when the people of New Mexico are in such great need? I hope not.
If Congressman Pearce thinks that the U.S. Forest Service should be able to respond to fires faster than on foot, he and his fellow Republicans should stop cutting the Forest Service budget.
Last week, the White House announced what could be a big shift in immigration policy, exempting many young illegal immigrants from deportation in the short run. But it wasn’t his first directive to extend protection to this group, and very few immigrants benefited from the last.
What’s at stake in this election is a choice between an economy built from the top down or an economy that thrives on the middle class’ ability to work, earn and provide for their families.
Gov. Susana Martinez complained about the individual mandate in the Affordable Care Act but told reporters other provisions in the law are important for ‘taking care of that very needy population.’ She said she wants to keep the law in its entirety – or at least parts of it.
For President Obama, the importance of passing Obamacare clearly trumped the pressing need of restoring our economy. The Supreme Court’s decision today merely reminds us of the scope of the president’s substantial squander and the importance of the election this November.
For many people without insurance, a key question raised by the Supreme Court’s decision today to uphold the Affordable Care Act is whether states will decline to participate in the law’s big Medicaid expansion.
The next time you hear the political rhetoric assailing policies that aim to give people a hand up, don’t forget that a solid piece of our historical success as a country is owed to policies that sought to care for people who were down on their luck.
While deporting the children of illegal immigrants, who aren’t at fault for being here, would be justified in the eyes of the law, it would hardly be consistent with the culture of a compassionate country.
Allowing the Affordable Care Act to stand is legally sound and practically expedient. If conservatives were champions of judicial restraint, they would agree.
The U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling on Arizona’s immigration law won’t mean much for policy in New Mexico, according to the Albuquerque Journal. In the meantime, most members of the state’s delegation in D.C. and the governor said the ruling points to the need for federal immigration reform.
‘Most Americans are fiscally responsible and socially tolerant, and I am for sure,’ former N.M. Gov. Gary Johnson told NMPolitics.net in explaining why he believes his long-shot Libertarian bid for president might actually work.