“Supreme Court” on The Daily Caller

The U.S. Supreme Court recently handed down a big win for property rights by unanimously ruling that property owners can take the Environmental Protection Agency to court when it wrongly declares their property a federally protected wetland. Judicial review is critical to ensuring that property rights are not subject to the whim of petty bureaucrats. (more)

On Tuesday’s “Morning Joe” on MSNBC, host Joe Scarborough was strongly critical of President Barack Obama’s decision to preemptively attack the Supreme Court now that his health care reform legislation is in danger of being overturned. (more)

Until this week, the most famous presidential rebuke of a sitting Supreme Court justice belonged to Andrew Jackson. “Justice Marshall has made his decision,” steamed the man accused by his opponents of Napoleonic ambitions. “Let him enforce it!” (more)

Last week, the Supreme Court heard arguments on whether Obamacare exceeds the federal government’s power under the U.S. Constitution. In the 220-year history of the Republic, the federal government has never before forced citizens to buy a product. (more)

This past week laid the foundation for one of the most important U.S. Supreme Court decisions in the past 70 years. To say it was an exciting week for Supreme Court watchers would be a gross understatement. The future of freedom in America truly hangs in the balance. (more)

The odds of the Supreme Court striking down the individual mandate, indeed most of the health care law, became even more “probable” after Wednesday’s oral arguments, Ilya Shapiro reported from the court. (more)

Video footage obtained by The Daily Caller appears to show a group of women dressed in purple Service Employees International Union-branded clothing, discussing how much they were paid to attend a March 27 protest outside the Supreme Court. The video first appeared online Wednesday. (more)

Tuesday’s Supreme Court oral arguments, which focused on the individual health insurance mandate, began with pomp and ended with circumstantial evidence that the individual mandate is in constitutional jeopardy. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — The fate of President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul was cast into deeper jeopardy Tuesday as the Supreme Court’s conservative justices sharply and repeatedly questioned its core requirement that virtually every American carry insurance. The court will now take up whether any remnant of the historic law can survive if that linchpin fails. (more)

Oral arguments over the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act will wrap up Wednesday. The Supreme Court is expected to issue its ruling in June. In the meantime, conservatives, constitutionalists and libertarians will anxiously await the Supreme Court’s decision, hoping that the justices find the mandate unconstitutional. They should be hoping for the opposite. (more)

Tuesday, one of the most consequential days for the health care law, was a “good day for those challenging the individual mandate,” Ilya Shapiro reported from the Supreme Court. (more)

Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl of Arizona told The Daily Caller that the Supreme Court would be allowing an “all powerful government” over the people if it upholds the individual mandate in the health care law. Kyl said the court must “draw a line” in terms of whether or not the federal government can force individuals to purchase a good or service. (more)

On an argument day that can best be described as the calm before the storm, the Supreme Court gave every indication that it would indeed have to decide the constitutionality of Obamacare’s centerpiece, the individual mandate. (more)

Today the United States Supreme Court began three days of hearings on the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Obamacare). Challengers claim the law’s mandate that individuals purchase insurance or pay a fine is unprecedented. They are right. Despite government arguments to the contrary, requiring the purchase of a product or service is not the same as regulating how many acres of wheat a farmer can plant. A farmer can choose to plant no wheat without penalty. Those who choose not to purchase health insurance will pay a penalty. (more)

The Cato Institute’s Ilya Shapiro is covering the Supreme Court’s oral arguments on President Obama’s health care overhaul for The Daily Caller. (more)

Rick Santorum visited the Supreme Court Monday and accused Mitt Romney of not wanting to repeal the Obama administration’s healthcare law. (more)

As oral arguments over the constitutionality of president Obama’s health care law began in the Supreme Court Monday, protesters from both sides turned out to be heard. (more)

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WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court has sided with an Idaho couple in a property rights case, ruling they can go to court to challenge an Environmental Protection Agency order that blocked construction of their new home and threatened fines of more than $30,000 a day. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — Plea bargain negotiations between criminals and prosecutors will now come under constitutional scrutiny because a divided Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that convictions can be overturned if defense lawyers don’t adequately assist clients in deciding whether to accept such offers. (more)