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[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally Posted by sgtclub

You are totally off on this. He is not speaking to the court at all (as if they would listen - "after all the briefs, orals and months of thinking about this, we were going to strike it down but now that Obama has reminded us, we changed our mind") - seriously?

His audience is the public and this is his plan B. He is undermining the legitimacy of the court's decision, so he can run against that, rather than having to defend why his primary focus when the world was crumbling was passing an unconstitutional law.

And he got bitch slap by an appellate court judge, which is so beneath him. It was absolutely terrible from a political standpoint.

I agree with your second paragraph. But I disagree that the Supreme Court is not sensitive to the politics of this, and I think what the Fifth Circuit judge said is excellent for Obama. It kept the story alive and proved that conservative judges are acting politically. From a political standpoint, there is not a single voter in the entire country who both thought Obama was "bitch slapped" by that judge and had the remotest chance of voting for him in the fall.