President Obama did not create the candidacy of Donald Trump. “Responsible” Republicans like Ross Douthat have been pushing that banal meme since the Donald first reared his ugly head back in the primaries, a falsehood that received a proper beat down from Slate’s William Saletan at the time. As Bill put it, “Obama is an…
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More on the ACA
Over at Salon, Paul Campos advances the argument, using Scalia’s dissent to the Court’s decision upholding most of the Affordable Care Act, that Roberts made a last-minute switch. He doesn’t follow David Bernstein in making dark accusations regarding “unidentified circles” that supposedly leaned on Roberts to come around or the “heat” supposedly applied by President…
Alan Vanneman, Percipience Personified
Mere hours ago, I wrote, of Supreme Court Justice Antonine Scalia’s furious, even frumious, dissent in Arizona v. United States, “One can even hope—and this is probably nonsense, and will probably be exposed as nonsense at 10 o’clock this morning—that his fulmination was sparked in part by frustration over his brethren’s refusal to overturn the…