Court opts for precedent over partisanship
10 July 2012
ABC TV Planet America
The Supreme Court verdict to uphold Obamacare was as much a decision to put the waning legitimacy of the Court before strict partisanship as a ruling on the law itself. Chair in US media James Fallows spoke with John Barron and Chas Licciardello about the more sensational elements of the case as well as its implications for Mitt Romney in his fight to unseat President Obama this November.
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