The Supreme Court, absent from the election debate
By Robert Barnes, Washington Post "The High Court" columnist, 9/30/12
Steven R. Shapiro is the legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union, and, as you might expect from someone in that job, he watches the Supreme Court as closely as anyone. He’s a savvy analyst of the court’s work and the public’s reaction to it.
But he began a recent briefing for reporters, about the term that begins Monday, with a confession about something he said he got completely wrong when the court completed its work in June.
He said the court’s actions had guaranteed that the justices “would be a major issue in this year’s presidential campaign.”
Shapiro hardly seemed to be was going out on a limb after one of the court’s most substantive and controversial terms in years, marked by round-the-clock news coverage of the court’s 5 to 4 decision to affirm the constitutionality of President Obama’s health-care law.
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