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Opinion: Health Reform Will Survive in the Courts

As America struggled to emerge from the Great Depression, President Franklin Roosevelt threw his reputation behind a sweeping new safety net for seniors called Social Security -- and the courts quickly rebelled. The law was unprecedented, wrote U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Scott Wilson. Worse, said Wilson, it seizes power...

Opinion: Pick a Nominee Who Unites Americans

(April 26) -- When President Barack Obama chooses his second Supreme Court nominee, the Senate must determine the kind of justice that nominee would be. The debate about judicial nominees, after all, is really a debate about judicial power and the role federal judges are supposed to play in our system of government. One...

Opinion: Pick a Justice Who Unites, Not Divides, America

(April 24) -- As President Barack Obama considers his second Supreme Court nominee, he faces a real dilemma. His far left base wants him to replace retiring liberal Justice John Paul Stevens with another activist judge. That's why we hear so much talk about the current court having a so-called 5-4 conservative majority,...