The Supreme Court says it will hear arguments over President Barack Obama’s controversial health care overhaul bill, setting up an election-year showdown over the White House’s main domestic policy achievement. The justices revealed this morning they would take the case. The decision means oral arguments could come in March, allowing plenty of time for a decision in late June, a little more than four months before Election Day. The health care case could be the high court’s most significant and political undertaking since the 5-4 decision in Bush v. Gore nearly 11 years ago, which effectively sealed George W. Bush’s 2000 presidential election victory over Al Gore. Republicans have called the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act unconstitutional since before Obama signed it into law in March 2010. But federal appeals courts have been split on their assessment of it.
Today’s poll question: Do you hope the Supreme Court will rule the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act unconstitutional?
