Perspective

Six Enormous Stakes In Presidential Election.

The Switch in Time That Shamed Nine?

Did Roberts switch his vote on the mandate?

Related:  SCOTUS ratings slip after Obamacare ruling.

Big Sis to AZ, Supreme Court: Drop Dead

What's so great about the rule of law anyway?

Legitimacy

More Than 2/3 of Americans hope the Supreme Court overturns Obamacare.

Another Bad Day In Court For Obama?

It would certainly appear so. Especially when even Justice Sotomayor, an Obama appointee, told the administration their argument "isn't selling very well."  That's probably because the administration's position in opposing the Arizona immigration law is so indefensible   As John Hinderaker put it:

what is going on here is that [the] Obama administration doesn’t want to enforce the immigration laws that Congress has enacted. The essence of its position in the Arizona case is that the federal government has the right to decide not to enforce the law, and if it so decides, then no state has the power, under the Constitution, to do anything that would tend to enforce those federal laws. So if the Obama administration decides that it will gain political advantage by ignoring federal laws against illegal immigration, states like Arizona just have to take the consequences without complaining.

They can't fault the Solicitor General for struggling to make that argument.

Obamacare: Day 3 at the Supreme Court

Obamacare's fate has now officially been left in the hands of the Supreme Court. Reason's Damon Root offers his assessment after attending the third and final day of oral arguments.

"If I was in the Obama administration, I would not be comfortable with how the last three days went."

"truly frightening. Truly."

Over at Legal Insurrection, Profesor Jacobson considers the list of potential Obama Supreme Court nominees in a second Obama term and then asks you to "imagine one of these people replacing Antonin Scalia or Clarence Thomas."

78, 75, 75, 73, 63, 61, 57, 57, 51

It may not be obvious, but these numbers represent a key reason why Obama must be defeated in November.  These are the ages of the Justices of the United States Supreme Court.  In three years, Obama has already nominated two justices to the Court.  More likely than not, the next presidential term will bring at least two more openings to be filled. 

If Obama wins in November, he could fundamentally reshape the Supreme Court with those two additional nominees and, with it, the United States for decades.  That is because two of the three most senior justices are Scalia, arguably the most prominent member of the Court's conservative, originalist wing and Kennedy, the Court's swing vote.  If you want to understand what is at stake, just consider DC v. Heller, which confirmed the constitutional right of an individual "to keep and bear arms" and self-defense.  That was a 5-4 decision. It does not take much to imagine its ruling being overturned, if Obama is wins in November