Will Roberts deliver the coup de grâce to Obamacare?
Bill McCollum, the Attorney General of Florida predicted today that the healthcare law could very well make it all the way to the Supreme Court. I have often drawn a parallel between the Obama-Roberts rivalry and that which existed between Thomas Jefferson and Chief Justice John Marshall. Marshall was Jefferson's arch-nemesis par excellence, repeatedly defying and foiling the popular president with a flurry of brilliant rulings that struck at the very core of Jefferson's vision of limited government. It looks like the roles are reversed today, with an Orwellian president and a restrained chief justice. It would indeed be fascinating to follow the hearings if this law makes it all the way to the high court.
There is no love lost between the two. Obama voted against Roberts' confirmation, joining only twenty-two of the more radical Democrats in doing so. Further, Roberts has recently offered a not-so-subtle critique of the president for his churlish and utterly classless lecturing of the justices during his State of the Union address. Obama, and much of the left, were indignant over the court's landmark ruling that overruled an unconstitutional campaign finance law that curtailed free speech. And so, in response, the president saw fit to single out the justices, who were sitting a mere ten feet away, and upbraid them, much to the glee of the assembled sycophantic Democrats. So it will be interesting, to say the least, watching these two heavy weights battle it out over the issues of the day.
Marshall and Jefferson
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