Last week’s Supreme Court decision affirming the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act (the Act) has been widely hailed as a victory for President Obama, and in terms of validating the tremendous expenditure of time and political good will it took to get the bill passed into law, it certainly was.             But a […]

            Last week’s Supreme Court’s decision on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act shocked court observers for no less than three reasons.  First, the court held that the law is constitutional.  Second, it did so under Congress’s taxing authority, not its “Commerce Clause” power.  And third, its opinion was authored by Chief Justice John […]

            I officiated at the wedding of two of my former students last month, and the occasion, coupled with my own anniversary (#34) earlier this month and the fact that June is the month for weddings, makes this column appropriate.  I originally wrote it twelve years ago, following a celebration of my parent’s 60th wedding […]

            Omaha, Nebraska is probably not where you’d want to spend a week at this time of the year, unless hot and humid, mixed with severe thunderstorms, is your idea of an ideal climate.             But Omaha is where I was last week (for the eighth time in the last ten years, every year at […]