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Archive for the ‘Law Notes’ Category
October 28th, 2009
Category: Law Notes, US healthcare reform
Even the weakest public option makes future health care regulation eligible for budget reconciliation.
October 27th, 2009
Category: Climate change, Law Notes
The most conservative federal appeals court in the country sides with plaintiffs in a major climate case: the Supremes might step in soon.
October 21st, 2009
The Pentagon’s excuse for opposing Al Franken’s anti-rape amendment doesn’t pass the laugh test.
October 9th, 2009
Category: Law Notes
If the entanglement doctrine bars a court from deciding whether a Hindu marriage ceremony performed in 1952 created a valid marriage between a couple that purported to be married and had four children together, why isn’t the default finding that they were married rather than that they weren’t?
August 30th, 2009
Like all attempts at bipartisan compromise, Bill Bradley’s proposed deal won’t work because it assumes good faith on the part of Republicans.
August 18th, 2009
Is it too much to ask that when commentators make confident statements about the reconciliation process and health care that they provide evidence for their position? Apparently. No one has yet shown why this cannot be done.
August 11th, 2009
Category: Health Care, Law Notes
Just because a health insurance reform bill says that it bans pre-existing condition discrimination does mean that it actually does so. Lobbyists can put poison pills in the bill to make it hollow. Here’s what to look for.
August 3rd, 2009
If this is the best that the Beltway savants can do in asserting that you can’t use budget reconciliation for health care, then it’s even clearer that you can.
August 2nd, 2009
Category: Democrats in Congress, Health Care, Law Notes, Politics and Leadership, The wayward press, Watching Conservatives
Republicans threaten that Democratic efforts to use budget reconciliation for health reform will make them “incensed” and will refuse to cooperate. In other news, Joseph Stalin has said “no more Mr. Nice Guy.” Besides, the GOP is wrong on the law.
