{"id":6313,"date":"2010-07-09T12:47:10","date_gmt":"2010-07-09T16:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=6313"},"modified":"2011-01-20T14:01:46","modified_gmt":"2011-01-20T19:01:46","slug":"obama-vs-scotus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2010\/07\/09\/obama-vs-scotus\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama vs. SCOTUS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-6314\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2010\/07\/Constitution-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"We The People\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" \/>Many legal experts foresee a <a title=\"collision\" href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/health\/la-na-court-roberts-obama-20100706,0,7184862.story\" target=\"_blank\">collision<\/a> coming between President Obama&#8217;s progressive agenda and the Supreme Court&#8217;s conservative majority.\u00a0 Republican attorneys general in 20 states, for example, have already sued the federal government over the healthcare reform act, arguing that the law&#8217;s mandate to buy health insurance tramples states&#8217; rights and exceeds Congress&#8217; power.\u00a0 Political science Professor <a title=\"Graham Wilson\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/polisci\/people\/faculty\/professorgrahamwilson\/\" target=\"_blank\">Graham Wilson<\/a>, author of &#8220;<em>Only in America? American Politics in Comparative Perspective<\/em>,&#8221; says a Constitutional crisis may be coming.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cIt would be an extraordinary expansion of judicial power without precedent since 1937 if the Supreme Court intervened in the health care issue.\u00a0 It should provoke a Constitutional crisis were it to happen.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Contact Graham Wilson, 617-353-2540, <a href=\"mailto:gkwilson@bu.edu\">gkwilson@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many legal experts foresee a collision coming between President Obama&#8217;s progressive agenda and the Supreme Court&#8217;s conservative majority.\u00a0 Republican attorneys general in 20 states, for example, have already sued the federal government over the healthcare reform act, arguing that the law&#8217;s mandate to buy health insurance tramples states&#8217; rights and exceeds Congress&#8217; power.\u00a0 Political science [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4491],"tags":[3332,533,3331],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6313"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6313"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7670,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6313\/revisions\/7670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}