The Role of Partisanship in the Health Care Reform Challenge | Trevor Burrus | Cato Institute: Commentary

The Role of Partisanship in the Health Care Reform Challenge | Trevor Burrus | Cato Institute: Commentary: "If the law is struck down, it will almost assuredly be on a 5-4 vote. As predicted by many, none of the liberal justices seemed inclined to rule any part of the law unconstitutional, yet this presumptive unanimity of the four liberal justices rarely elicits catcalls of partisanship. When the four conservative justices — sans Justice Anthony Kennedy — move in predictable lockstep, it is often sneeringly cited as a product of partisanship rather than a principled constitutional analysis. Such an attitude, if held by someone from either political side, is simply too self serving to be worthy of respect."