A group of fifty doctors along with the non-profits groups, Single Payer Action and Our Economy, filed an amicus brief with the Supreme Court arguing that the individual mandate in the Affordable Care Act should be struck down. The brief argues that Congress doesn’t need the new power to compel individuals to buy a product from a private company to effectively regulate the healthcare marketplace. It can easily do so with its current approaches, such as a single payer system, which is used for Medicare.

It wasn’t too long ago that Walter Russell Mead pointed out that Jeffrey Toobin’s profile of Clarence Thomas showed a man for whom the expression “still waters run deep” was created. So here, by popular demand, are examples of such brilliance.

The Supreme Court has officially set the schedule for oral arguments regarding the Affordable Care Act. Arguments will be heard over three days from March 26th to March 28th, 2012, with separate issues considered on each day.

Wonder how these two will decide? The suspense is killing me.

In a widely expected move the Supreme Court today decided that it will review the constitutionality of the new Affordable Care Act law and its requirement that all Americans carry health insurance. A finally ruling from the Supreme Court will likely come in June, just a few months before the 2012 general election.

This ubiquitous world-wide surveillance of anyone and everyone should serve as a wake up call for what the future may hold. Rapid deployment of the new technologies uncovered in the FOIA records brings us closer to an extensive and inescapable surveillance state, where we blindly place our hands on electronic devices that capture our digital prints, stare into iris scanning devices that record the details of our eyes, and have pictures taken of different angles of our faces so that the FBI and other federal agencies can store and use such information.

The Supreme Court heard arguments on the constitutionality of police using GPS tracking devices on your autos without a warrant. The case has dire Fourth Amendment implications, reports the Bill of Rights Defense Committee.

A panel for the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia has affirmed a lower court ruling that the Affordable Care Act is constitutional. In a 2-1 decision the Appeals Court concluded that the commerce clause does give Congress the power to make individuals obtain health insurance.

There’s been an expectation that the Supreme Court would consider the constitutionally of the Affordable Care Act sometime in March 2012 and deliver an opinion in June. But there’s a possibility the Supremes could delay taking the case because of the ACA’s “tax” provision doesn’t kick in until 2014, so the issue isn’t ripe yet.

The Department of Justice today filed a petition asking the Supreme Court to review an appellate court’s ruling that struck down the Affordable Care Act.