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“It envisions a Supreme Court standing (or rather enthroned) at the apex of government, empowered to decide all constitutional questions, always and everywhere ‘primary’ in its role.”

The Court insists upon litigation conducted by state officials whose preference is to lose the case.

The court accelerated the advance of gay marriage in the US, and decided that defining marriage as the union of one man and one woman is unconstitutional.

Pro-lifers’ display of abortion results outside a Denver church led to a First Amendment legal battle.

One vote could decide both the immediate election and the course of constitutional law for decades to come.

The justices of the future will decide our nation’s course on abortion, affirmative action, civil liberties and gay rights, not to mention big-ticket policy items such as health care. Our Founding Fathers never imagined such a role for the court, but for better or worse, it is here to stay. Vote your conscience this time around, but for heaven’s sake, vote on the Supreme Court. It’s going to matter. – Bloomberg

The biggest solace for conservatives in this is that the ruling is most likely Obama’s death knell. Running against the Supreme Court was his last best hope. Now that he no longer has that option, his chances are as slim as they have ever been.

If there was any reminder needed of what is at stake in this presidential election, the fractured vote upholding the mandate is it.

Obamacare is a massive federal power grab and the largest tax increases ever imposed on the American economy.

Obamacare now officially the largest tax increase in history. In a lengthy and complicated ruling states cannot be penalized for not adding new people to Medicaid. Can we afford this insanity?