Confirming Judges

Obama , Under Pressure, Swipes at Supreme Court"…I think the justices should understand, that in the absence of an individual mandate, you cannot have a mechanism to ensure that people with preexisting conditions can actually get health care… Ultimately, I'm confident that the Supreme Court will not take what would be an unprecedented, extraordinary step of overturning a law that was passed by a strong majority of a democratically elected Congress. And I'd just remind conservative commentators that for years what we've heard is, the biggest problem on the bench was judicial activism or a lack of judicial restraint -- that an unelected group of people would somehow overturn a duly constituted and passed law. Well, this is a good example."-- President Obama at a press conference with the other leaders of the North American Free Trade Agreement nations, President Felipe Calderon of Mexico and Prime Minister Stephen Harper of Canada .There would be nothing "unprecedented" or "extraordinary...

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