Quote Originally Posted by CountArach View Post
There's a lot of good that it could do, yes, but at the same time the implicatins of that sort of precedent are huge. All it takes is some nutjob to say that the Federal Emergency Services (or some other equivalent which just can't be done properly at state level) infringe on his liberty and should be a state responsibility and suddenly he has a potential precedent to draw upon.
Not really. His case would likely be totally different as in he'll get spanked by the lower courts and SCOTUS would refuse to hear the case.

I don't like the individual mandate, but I think that there should be some way to get rid of it without the Supreme Court getting involved.
It's too late for that now.


As for how liberal/conservative the supreme court is, one metric has found that this is the most conservative bench ever.
It's been like this since Renquist, but it's getting more liberal: at least David Souter and Sandra D. O'Connor were somewhat centrist. Elena Kagan and The Wise Latina both are outspoken liberals.