How do you think the Supremes will rule today

[malaise]

I think they will postpone the decision for a year - to read the bill although I am not sure the activist RW judges give a damn about the 'politics' of their decision.
Still I am hoping they postpone the decision.

[terip64]

1. I thought we wouldn't know until June. N/t

[malaise]

2. Tell me more

I thought we'd hear today.

[rurallib]

22. they leave many decisions to be announced in June

Some may actually want to study it a bit - or at least have their clerks do it.

[DCBob]

6. They vote today but the result wont be known until June.

Its takes a Supreme 3 months to write the "opinion" paper.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

18. so there's no way the vote itself would leak out? or is that always

a supremely guarded secret?

[ananda]

3. They're meeting in secret to vote.

But we won't know the outcome till June.

Well.. we probably do know but the official
announcement will come then.

[malaise]

5. Thanks n/t

[GeorgeGist]

4. Stop! In the Name of Love

Think it oh,oh,over.

[KharmaTrain]

7. They're Not Ruling Til At Least June...

I doubt there'll be a postponment on this decission and honestly I couldn't and wouldn't want to predict on what the ultimate verdict will be. The past three days of hearing are just the preliminaries...now the Justices will go behind their closed doors in their ivory tower and banter the issues back and forth. It sure looks like this is headed to a 5-4 decission and this will only lead to more politicization...not less.

For the Scalitos, the right wingers on the court know their party is in freefall and this is one of the few lifelines that can be thrown to help...and I expect Kennedy to pay back his rushpublican bosses and we'll see some of the ACA struck down. Then let it become a political issue...let people decide if they want insurance companies playing god. Maybe...just maybe...this is more right wing overreach that will help Democrats sweep the rushpublicans out of power in the House and we can look at revising the bill in the future. If not...then forget about any health care reform for another generation or longer...

[vi5]

8. The majority will vote to strike it down....

And those of us who saw this coming 2 miles away, while the "grown ups" who we were reminded time and again were constitutional lawyers and who have all the best legal advisers and should have known better will act shocked (SHOCKED I TELL YOU!!!!) that partisan Republicans once again acted like partisan Republicans with no regard for consistency or precedent (even their own precedent).

And then we'll lather, rinse, and repeat again on some other issue.

[jberryhill]

9. They aren't ruling today

You know those big long Supreme Court opinions that nobody actually reads? It takes a long time to write them.

They are not a DU jury. The decision *might* most likely issue in June, as most term decisions do. But they can decide to hold over to the next term if they want, and which sometimes happens.

[Quantess]

12. What's the snark for?

I don't think it was a dumb question.

[jberryhill]

14. What snark?

It takes time to write the opinions and confer on drafts, they are not a trial court which rules at the end of the case, and they can hold over to next term. Thems the facts.

[LanternWaste]

26. No valid question exists without at least one petulant answer.

Very few valid question exists without at least one petulant answer designed to trivialize the person who asks.

(and having asked many, many dumb questions throughout my own life, I think I can safely say yours was indeed, not dumb...)

[Laura PourMeADrink]

19. funniest line of the day so far. "They are not a DU jury" Thanks for making

me laugh ! Maybe WE should start writing long briefs on our DU jury opinions.

[TheCowsCameHome]

10. It would take Scalia and Thomas until 2087

to read the documents, if they even bothered.

I don't think the result will be known until June - at least that's what I read.

[malaise]

11. I didn't follow the proceedings yesterday

but why was the media screaming about a decision this week and its likely impact on Pres Obama and Democrats?

[jberryhill]

15. Because the media consists of idiots

Who don't know the difference between the Supreme Court and traffic court.

I used to think that news organizations were "dumbing down" legal reporting because they believed it to be too complex. Now I realize they are just dumb. On almost any legal controversy, the news and commentary are just ghastly.

[TheCowsCameHome]

16. I don't know.

To see the speculation flying around everywhere, one would think the decision had been made before the arguments were even presented.

It's all crazy.

[DCBob]

13. Although the official result wont be known until June I suspect it will get leaked..

by someone on one of the RW judges staff to the Republican leadership so as to give them a heads up and an advantage on how to plan for the political effects of the decision.

[GusFring]

17. they claim only the justices know the results?

You'd think the white house would have a way of asking one of the justices on their side.

Is that legal?

[jberryhill]

20. Illegal AND stupid

"Excuse me, your honor, but I'd like to take a shit on the integrity you spent a lifetime developing. Do you mind?"

[GusFring]

21. integrity? Please. The repubs on the court have none. I bet Thomas will tell someone. His wife?

[jberryhill]

23. Oh, so that's what you meant by this:

"You'd think the white house would have a way of asking one of the justices on their side."

I had not guessed you thought Thomas and the White House were on the same side.

[GusFring]

24. I meant the right has no integrity, So Kagan or one the lefties

might be open to giving a heads up.

But if its not legal, then they probably shouldnt.

[WI_DEM]

25. You won't hear anything today because the ruling is announced in June.

The media has been saying this from day one. They are hearing oral arguements and then they will eventually meet in private and then they issue the ruling later this summer.