Supreme Court Upholds Health Care Law, 5 4, in Victory for Obama. Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, who had been thought to be the administrations best hope to provide a fifth vote to uphold the law, joined three more conservative members in an unusual jointly written dissent that said the court should have struck down the entire law. The majoritys approach, he said from the bench, amounts to a vast judicial overreaching. The courts ruling was the most significant federalism decision since the New Deal and the most closely watched case since Bush v. Gore in 2. 00. 0. Yesterday I Was' title='Yesterday I Was' />It was a crucial milestone for the law, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2. Mr. Obama welcomed the courts decision on the health care law, which has inspired fierce protests, legal challenges and vows of repeal since it was passed. Whatever the politics, todays decision was a victory for people all over this country whose lives are more secure because of this law, he said at the White House. Script Ppc. Republicans, though, used the occasion to attack it again. Obamacare was bad policy yesterday its bad policy today, Mitt Romney, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, said in remarks near the Capitol. Obamacare was bad law yesterday its bad law today. He, like Congressional Republicans, renewed his pledge to undo the law. The historic decision, coming after three days of lively oral arguments in March and in the midst of a presidential campaign, drew intense attention across the nation. Outside the court, more than 1,0. Chants of Yes we can rang out, but the ruling also provoked disappointment among Tea Party supporters. In Loudoun County, Va., Angela Laws, 5. We laughed, and we shouted with joy and hugged each other, she said, explaining that she had been unable to get insurance because of her diabetes and back problems until a provision in the health care law went into effect. After months of uncertainty about the laws fate, the courts ruling provides some clarity and perhaps an alert to states, insurers, employers and consumers about what they are required to do by 2. The Obama administration had argued that the mandate was necessary because it allowed other provisions of the law to function those overhauling the way insurance is sold and those preventing sick people from being denied or charged extra for insurance. The mandates supporters had said it was necessary to ensure that not only sick people but also healthy individuals would sign up for coverage, keeping insurance premiums more affordable. Conservatives took comfort from two parts of the decision the new limits it placed on federal regulation of commerce and on the conditions the federal government may impose on money it gives the states. Five justices accepted the argument that had been at the heart of the challenges brought by 2. That was a stunning victory for a theory pressed by a small band of conservative and libertarian lawyers. Most members of the legal academy view the theory as misguided,if not frivolous. To an economist, perhaps, there is no difference between activity and inactivity both have measurable economic effects on commerce, Chief Justice Roberts wrote. But the distinction between doing something and doing nothing would not have been lost on the framers, who were practical statesmen, not metaphysical philosophers. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, in an opinion joined by Justices Stephen G. Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan, dissented on this point, calling the view stunningly retrogressive. She wondered why Chief Justice Roberts had seen fit to address it at all in light of his vote to uphold the mandate under the tax power. Akhil Reed Amar, a Yale law professor and a champion of the health care law, said that it was important to look at the dark cloud behind the silver lining. Federal power has more restrictions on it, he said, referring to the new limits on regulating commerce. Yesterday I Was' title='Yesterday I Was' />Going forward, there may even be laws on the books that have to be re examined. The restrictions placed on the Medicaid expansion may also have significant ripple effects. A splintered group of justices effectively revised the law to allow states to choose between participating in the expansion while receiving additional payments or forgoing the expansion and retaining the existing payments. The law had called for an all or nothing choice. The expansion had been designed to provide coverage to 1. SPC Storm Reports Page. 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Although the decision did not turn on it, the back and forth between Justice Ginsburgs opinion for the four liberals and the joint opinion by the four conservatives Justice Kennedy and Justices Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas and Samuel A. Alito Jr. revisited the by now familiar arguments. Broccoli made a dozen appearances. Although an individual might buy a car or a crown of broccoli one day, there is no certainty she will ever do so, Justice Ginsburg wrote. And if she eventually wants a car or has a craving for broccoli, she will be obliged to pay at the counter before receiving the vehicle or nourishment. She will get no free ride or food, at the expense of another consumer forced to pay an inflated price. The conservative dissenters responded that one day the failure of some of the public to purchase American cars may endanger the existence of domestic automobile manufacturers or the failure of some to eat broccoli may be found to deprive them of a newly discovered cancer fighting chemical which only that food contains, producing health care costs that are a burden on the rest of us. All of the justices agreed that their review of the health care law was not barred by the Anti Injunction Act, which allows suits over some sorts of taxes only after they become due. That could have delayed the health care challenge to 2. The conservative dissenters said that the majority could not have it both ways by calling the mandate a tax for some purposes but not others. That carries verbal wizardry too far, deep into the forbidden land of sophists, they said. As a general matter, Chief Justice Roberts wrote that the decision in the case, National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius, No. 1. 1 3. Some decisions, the chief justice said, are entrusted to our nations elected leaders, who can be thrown out of office if the people disagree with them. Justice Ginsburg, speaking to a crowded courtroom that sat rapt for the better part of an hour, drew a different conclusion. In the end, she said, the Affordable Care Act survives largely unscathed. Continue reading the main story. Yesterday I Was Clever QuoteDoctor Whos 5. Anniversary. The Doctor Who doodle started life as a request from a huge fan at Google. It seemed daunting 1. Doctors, 5. 0 years of adventures, countless enemies and time travel But we loved the idea of science fiction, technology and fun coming together, so we set about creating a multiple level game. The game was always a simple premise those dastardly Daleks have stolen the Google letters and we need Doctor Who to retrieve them. Artists dont make games, programmers do. I provided the designs and various pieces of animation but without the engineers the game would only exist in another dimension I was fortunate to work alongside people that genuinely cared Engineering Gurus Rui Lopes, Corrie Scalisi, Mark Ivey. Additional support Doug Simpkinson, Jonathan Shneier. All things D of 3 Leon Hong. Deity of rain, lava lightning Kevin Laughlin. Additional game ideas Gregory Capuano. Sounds The BBC, Tom Tabanao, Manuel Clement and CodyCreative consultant Chris Dibona. User testing Jennifer Zamora. We thank the BBC for trusting us and also helping us whenever needed.