The politics of President Obama’s health care law could shift dramatically under an expected review by the Supreme Court. The justices meet privately today to decide which of numerous appeals to take up — and one of them is the health care law Obama signed in 2010. Legal analysts expect the high court to take [...]

WASHINGTON — It would be hard for any lawyer to fathom a more riveting caseload than the one Paul D. Clement carried during his seven years in President George W. Bush’s Justice Department. As solicitor general for three years and deputy solicitor for four, Mr. Clement appeared before the Supreme Court 49 times, defended the [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration and challengers of the president’s health care overhaul are pushing for Supreme Court consideration of the law in late March, judging by the speed with which they are filing legal papers. Parties in a high court case rarely submit legal briefs before their deadline, and often ask for extensions. [...]

Everyone in Washington agrees that we have an obligation to tackle health care costs. Rapidly rising costs are not sustainable for businesses, and they are not sustainable for families. But there’s a big difference between President Barack Obama’s plan to lower costs and the Republican plan, which doesn’t control costs, ends Medicare as we know [...]

A Christian legal group asked the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn President Barack Obama’s health- care law, filing an appeal that would let the justices take up the case later this year. The Thomas More Law Center today said it had asked the justices to review a 2-1 federal appeals court decision that upheld the [...]

Idaho was set to accept as much as $19 million in federal cash linked to the health care overhaul as state agencies take advantage of waiver provisions that help them skirt Gov. C.L. “Butch” Otter’s executive order aimed at blocking them from taking some of the money. Idaho is among states suing over the federal [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Memo to President Barack Obama and the debt negotiators: You can save $13 billion by fixing a glitch in the new health care law. That amount may pale in comparison to the “big deal” the president’s looking for, but negotiators have got to start somewhere to reach the goal of cutting deficits [...]

Okay, so candidate Barack Obama told a bit of a fib about his mother. From the New York Times: During his presidential campaign and subsequent battle over a health care law, Mr. Obama quieted crowds with the story of his mother’s fight with her insurer over whether her cancer was a pre-existing condition that disqualified [...]

July 7 California Attorney General Kamala Harris — who already had joined friend-of-the-court briefs defending the constitutionality of last year’s federal health care reform law in the 6th, 4th and 11th U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeal — has now done so again in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. “Health care [...]

Proponents say enough signatures have been gathered to bring a ballot question before the state’s voters this fall to decide whether the state constitution should be amended so that Ohio residents are not required to buy insurance. The Associated Press/Washington Post: Health Care Law Opponents Submit Petitions In Push To Exempt Ohio Residents From Fed [...]