Obama and Supreme Court may be on collision course

[Tucker]

http://www.latimes.com/news/health/la-na-court-roberts-obama-20100706,0,7184862.story

The president's agenda on healthcare and financial regulations sets the stage for a clash with the Supreme Court's conservative majority.

By David G. Savage, Tribune Washington Bureau
July 6, 2010

Reporting from Washington —
The Supreme Court wrapped up its term last week after landmark decisions protecting the right to have a gun and the right of corporations to spend freely on elections. But the year's most important moment may have come on the January evening when the justices gathered at the Capitol for President Obama's State of the Union address.

They had no warning about what was coming.

Obama and his advisors had weighed how to respond to the court's ruling the week before, which gave corporations the same free-spending rights as ordinary Americans. They saw the ruling as a rash, radical move to tilt the political system toward big business as they coped with the fallout from the Wall Street collapse...........................

................The president and congressional Democrats have embarked on an ambitious drive to regulate corporations, banks, health insurers and the energy industry. But the high court, with Roberts increasingly in control, will have the final word on those regulatory laws.

more at link....

Zero is getting into a pissing match that he can't win. I just hope that he doesn't pull a Roosevelt and try and increase the size of the court to get his Socialist agenda through.

It's a good read though.

[NHSparky]

Even if he does try to pull a FDR and try to pack the courts, the result will likely be the same--even the Dems back then pulled back from that one.

Something tells me the Supremes are looking for a little payback after Zero's last SOTU address.  Bring it on, boys.

[Eupher]

Lord Zero has yet to learn that running his mouth does more to harm his socialist agenda than keeping quiet about what he's doing.

Of course, this is the Chicago way of politics. Bludgeon, hack, and slash your way through others to your goal. 

[DumbAss Tanker]

As a matter of decorum I doubt they would walk even if he slaps them again, it just isn't the done thing.

[Tucker]

As a matter of decorum I doubt they would walk even if he slaps them again, it just isn't the done thing.

I wouldn't expect any favorable rulings if I were obama though.

[delilahmused]

Even the liberal ones probably don't appreciate being lectured and reprimanded by an empty suit arrogant upstart with a teleprompter.

Cindie

[NHSparky]

And in that vein:

LINK

WASHINGTON - President Obama may get liberal Elena Kagan on the Supreme Court, but conservative swing-voter Anthony Kennedy says he's not going anywhere anytime soon.

Justice Kennedy, who turns 74 this month, has told relatives and friends he plans to stay on the high court for at least three more years - through the end of Obama's first term, sources said.

That means Kennedy will be around to provide a fifth vote for the court's conservative bloc through the 2012 presidential election. If Obama loses, Kennedy could retire and expect a Republican President to choose a conservative justice.

Kennedy, appointed by President Ronald Reagan, has been on the court 22 years. He has become a bit of a political nemesis at the White House for his increasing tendency to side with the court's four rock-ribbed conservative justices.

Without naming Kennedy, Obama was unusually critical of his majority opinion in the Citizens United case, handed down last January. That 5-4 decision struck down limits on contributions to political campaigns as an abridgement of free speech.

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