I thought the Republicans supported personal responsibility.  Wasn't that the deal with the Republican Party?  They thought personal responsibility is a good thing.  Their reactions to the Supreme Court decisions on same sex marriage and to the Senate's immigration bill make me ...read more

This week saw some great things and some that were not so great.  While I applaud the Supreme Court striking down the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), it bothers me a lot that they also gutted the Voting Rights Act (VRA).  And I don't know how Paula Deen fits into this but she ...read more

by Charles Ornstein: 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. Although the court upheld the law's mandate ...read more

By Bob Cesca: It's very unlikely the president will offer up a new healthcare reform bill if the current law is ripped to shreds by the conservative-controlled Supreme Court. In his own words, there are only two ways to make sure all Americans can afford healthcare: the current ...read more

The US supreme court confronted what one justice characterised as a choice between a "wrecking operation" and a "salvage job" as it considered the future of Barack Obama's signature healthcare reforms if a key component is found to be unconstitutional. In a third and final day ...read more

By Robert Parry: The Republican justices on the U.S. Supreme Court behaved more like Fox News pundits than serious jurists weighing the constitutionality of an important law addressing the health of the American people. On Tuesday, they posed silly hypothetical questions of the ...read more