PERRspectives: How the Media Created an Obama Judicial Controversy in 3 Easy Steps
"Conservative commentators." "Commerce." "New Deal." Only if you pretend Barack Obama never uttered those three phases this week can you manufacture a controversy in which the President supposedly questioned the authority of the Supreme Court to overturn the 2010 Affordable Care Act (ACA). But in the hands of his Republican opponents and a lazy and compliant media, President Obama's unremarkable summary of 70 years of Supreme Court Commerce Clause jurisprudence and the decades-longconservative assault on so-called "judicial activism" magically made him a "thug" trying to "intimidate the Supreme Court."
