Groups, Including Health Care Groups, Swarm the Supreme Court

"Justice Clarence Thomas likens all the outside political pressure that the Supreme Court is facing over its review of the Obama administration’s sweeping health care law to the distraction faced by a free-throw shooter confronted with fans waving wildly behind the basket. Neither, in his view, has much impact in the end," starts the New York Times post. "The groups filing amicus briefs include not only the usual heavy hitters like the chamber, AARP and virtually every major health care association, but also obscure groups that have rarely, if ever, been involved in a Supreme Court case...Dozens of other constituencies filing briefs put in similar efforts....Economists are wading into the debate with briefs that offer clashing views of the benefits and harms that they believe the health care law brings....And the State of Massachusetts, which approved a similar insurance model under Gov. Mitt Romney in 2006, argues in its amicus brief that its experience 'confirms that Congress had a rational basis' to impose minimum insurance requirements." Read more.  .