Supreme Court: Health Care Reform

United States Supreme Court Dept: By the end of its current term next week, the court will have ruled on several cases involving immigration and campaign financing, but the biggest of them all is President Barack Obama s health care reform. The so-called Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare as its critics call it, has been the signature domestic achievement of the Obama presidency, according to The Star. Today s Supreme Court is led by Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr. He promised a conservative philosophy of judicial restraint and respect for legal precedents when he was appointed by President George W. Bush in 2005, but his court has delivered the opposite. With five of nine justices appointed by Republican presidents, Roberts court has followed the conservative party line in an aggressive and intrusive way on virtually all key issues and even though nearly $9 billion will have been poured into the 2012 U.S. presidential campaign by year s end, you can think of this race as bit of an eccentric sideshow. Eternal political gridlock will make it so. The real power in the U.S. rests elsewhere. It is now the United States Supreme Court, back in the spotlight again as it announces a flurry of controversial rulings, which truly shapes today s America. Although this reform was approved by the people s representatives who occupy the U.S. Congress, the ruling on it by the unelected Supreme Court will help determine whether it lives or dies. Legal historians, some describing it as the decision of the century, point out that rarely in the court s history has a ruling had such serious consequences for the national economy, the immense U.S. health care industry and the entire American political process. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.