An Important Function Of The Supreme Court

The Affordable Care Act's Requirement That Certain Individuals Pay A Financial Penalty For Not Obtaining Health Insurance May Reasonably Be Characterized As A Tax.

I Find That When I Tell Lawyer Jokes To A Mixed Audience, The Lawyers Don't Think They're Funny And The Non-lawyers Don't Think They're Jokes.

There Are Many Different Causes Of The Scarring. Viruses Are Common. Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C, What We Call Autoimmune Diseases Where The Body Attacks The Liver Itself Such As Primary Biliary Cirrhosis Is An Autoimmune Disease; Sclerosing Cholangitis Is An Autoimmune Disease; And So Those Diseases Where The Liver Is Being Destroyed By Either The Virus Or An Autoimmune Disease, It Can Only Scar, And Why It Doesn't Regenerate Has To Do With The Fact That There Is This Ongoing Scar Tissue That Blocks That Regeneration.

I'm Not Sure That It's Right To View This As Excluding A Particular Group. When The Institution Of Marriage Developed Historically, People Didn't Get Around And Say, 'let's Have This Institution, But Let's Keep Out Homosexuals.' The Institution Developed To Serve Purposes That, By Their Nature, Didn't Include Homosexual Couples.

Senator, My Answer Is That The Independence And Integrity Of The Supreme Court Requires That Nominees Before This Committee For A Position On That Court Not Forecast, Give Predictions, Give Hints, About How They Might Rule In Cases That Might Come Before The Supreme Court,.