Health Care Reform Challenge REJECTED By Supreme Court

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Source: AP via Huffington Post

Health Care Reform Challenge REJECTED By Supreme Court
| 11/ 8/10 10:41 AM | AP

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court has turned down the first preliminary challenge to President Barack Obama's health care overhaul.

The decision Monday to reject an appeal from a former Republican state lawmaker in California was no surprise because a federal appeals court has yet to consider the case. The high court almost never reviews cases before the issues have been aired in lower courts.

Of more significance is the sign that all the justices took part in rejecting the appeal. New Justice Elena Kagan refused to say during her confirmation hearings whether she would take part in the court's deliberations over the health care law. Kagan was Obama's solicitor general before joining the court.

The court has noted Kagan's absence in more than two dozen other cases, suggesting that she voted on the health care appeal.

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[Myrina]

1. Yeah but they rejected it because it hasn't gone thru Appeals yet ...

... don't ring the victory bells, yet ...

[AllyCat]

6. That's what I thought too. The proof is in the pudding.

They'll find a way to make it so this reform is less helpful to citizens and more helpful to corporations that sponsor them.

[Thav]

2. I'm waiting to hear...

how the supreme court is an activist court and they're writing legislation!

Isn't that the natural reaction, after all who needs details?

[thereismore]

3. The judicial activist Roberts could have taken the case. But he didn't. A good sign anyway. nt

[Mikeystyle]

4. just a technical issue

you can't appeal a case from a lower court until that court has ruled on it--that's all the SC has said. this gives no indication to how they might rule on the issue at hand in the future.

[h9socialist]

5. I'm surprised that Alito and Thomas didn't want to expedite it.

Pigs that they are! Oh sorry that I forgot Mr. Justice (Fascist Pig) Scalia!