Subject: Share the View -- on Scotus Worship and Failing Firewalls
From: "Bloomberg View -- Tobin Harshaw" <[email-masked]>
To: "Hunter" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 09:02:56 +0000

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A Quick Look at Bloomberg News's Opinion Section for March 30,  2012

   Is there anything left to say about the great Obamacare debate at the
   Supreme Court? Actually, yes, and View columnist Stephen Carter is saying
   it: "Our court-worship has gotten ridiculous." This focus on personalities
   has led, Carter explains, to the sort of speculation that left
   Kremlin-watchers open to ridicule when the Soviet Union collapsed.
   "Predictions abound about whether the court will hold the statute’s
   individual mandate unconstitutional," writes Carter. "The week before oral
   arguments, a survey of former law clerks and lawyers who have argued before
   the court put the likelihood at 35 percent. The day after oral arguments,
   participants in Intrade’s prediction market had it at about 63 percent. Some
   of these predictions undoubtedly rest on the vulgar assumption that the
   justices are mere political hacks, doing the bidding of party. But some are
   clearly based on the questions asked at oral argument. That approach strikes
   me as bizarre.  When I was a Supreme Court law clerk in the early 1980s, I
   witnessed counter-examples galore. Once, in a particularly tricky
   civil-rights case, two justices spent the oral argument lobbing softballs at
   the attorney for the plaintiffs, but voted with the 6-3 majority against his
   clients. Another justice was well-known for his habit of peppering the
   solicitor general with tough questions, but voting with the government
   anyway." Good news for the White House ... maybe. ([2]Link.)
     Links:
       2. http://bloom.bg/GYLwVk

   Also, the editors are concerned that Europe's firewall is too small.
   ([3]Link.)
   But they are all for converting the U.S. truck fleet to natural gas. With no
   -- repeat, no! -- subsidies. ([4]Link.)
   Jonathan Alter tells us at how Ralph Nader is responsible for
   stand-your-ground laws becoming so commonplace. ([5]Link.)
   Jonathan Weil explains new accounting rules that will make it harder for
   companies to hide volatility. ([6]Link.)
   Brian Calle thinks Orange County, California, was smart for opting out of
   Obamacare. ([7]Link.)
   And Michael O'Hanlon shows we can learn from the success of  Colombia's
   counterterrorism efforts. ([8]Link.)
     Links:
       3. http://bloom.bg/HoqMcI
       4. http://bloom.bg/HpyhRX
       5. http://bloom.bg/H0mdWx
       6. http://bloom.bg/H6dtOj
       7. http://bloom.bg/H0sbmh
       8. http://bloom.bg/HmWgNP

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