The Anti-Obama Court

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This is the year of the Supreme Court's Obama smack down.

Traditionally, the Court gives considerable deference to the views of the president, regardless of his political persuasion. The executive is, after all, a co-equal branch of government. The solicitor general of the United States, the federal government's chief advocate before the high court, has long been called the "tenth justice" because he is so influential with the Court.

This Court, however, does not seem to defer to Obama's solicitor general.

Studies show that, in the past, the solicitor general wins most of his cases. When he is a party to a Supreme Court case, the solicitor general wins nearly 70 percent of the time. This term that number looks to flip. If the Court rules against Obama in the health care case and the other major decision yet to come down -- on Arizona's controversial immigration law -- the federal government will have lost nearly 65 percent of its


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/adam-winkler/supreme-court-obama_b_1619369.html

[GarroHorus]

1. Roberts Court = The MOST Politically Partisan SCOTUS in history. n/t

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2. I think the USSCt that overturned much of FDR's

New Deal comes close or ties the Roberts court, but they're both RW monstrosities.

[GarroHorus]

4. The Rehnquist court was the second most politically partisan, IMO.

Bush v. Gore alone puts that court in the #2 spot.

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3. Racism. n/t