MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
That sure didn’t take long.
Renewed challenges to the Affordable Care Act landed on the Supreme Court’s radar Monday morning as the court kicked off its 2012-2013 session. In one of their first actions of the new term, the justices solicited the federal government’s input on a request by Virginia-based Liberty University to rehear its complaint against the health law.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1012/81860.html#ixzz284V3aiUx
When you click on one of the links, target explains the basis:
The Supreme Court opened its new Term on Monday by asking the federal government to offer its views on whether the way should be cleared for new constitutional challenges to the federal health care law — including a new protest against the individual mandate that the Court had upheld last June. The request for the government’s views came in response to a rehearing request by a religious-oriented institution, Liberty University in Lynchburg, Va. The university’s earlier petition was simply denied in June, so it asked the Court to reconsider and wipe out a lower court ruling in order to revive the university’s religious challenges to both the individual mandate and the separate insurance coverage mandate for employers. There is also another challenge to the employer mandate, which did not figure in the Court’s decision last Term.