After last week's arguments about health care reform, President Barack Obama said he expected the justices to rule the act is constitutional. Polls indicate the nation is divided over the issue on ideological lines, with conservatives opposing the measure as a government overreach and liberals supporting it as a necessary overhaul of the health insurance system.
Obama said he was confident the Supreme Court "will not take what would be an unprecedented extraordinary step of overturning a law" passed by Congress. He also took a shot at critics of the health care bill, noting that such opponents now were calling for the kind of "judicial activism" they have opposed in the past."I just remind conservative commentators that for years, what we've heard is, the biggest problem on the bench was judicial activism or a lack of judicial restraint, that an unelected group of people would somehow overturn a duly constituted and passed law," the president said. To this, conservative Sen. Orrin Hatch replied, "Judicial activism or restraint is not measured by which side wins but by whether the court correctly applied the law,"
The Supreme Court's decision is expected in June in the middle of the campaign for the November presidential election.
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