{"id":3211,"date":"2012-03-26T20:39:08","date_gmt":"2012-03-27T01:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=3211"},"modified":"2012-03-26T20:39:08","modified_gmt":"2012-03-27T01:39:08","slug":"opening-skirmish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=3211","title":{"rendered":"Opening Skirmish"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today’s arguments before the Supreme Court on the Affordable Care Act were something of a necessary formality, involving arcane jurisdictional issues that likely won’t prevent the Court from ruling on the key questions<\/a> regarding the constitutionality of the individual mandate and the Medicaid expansion. Those arguments are still to come and should provide plenty of fodder for pundits and bloggers attempting to divine how the court will decide the case. But despite the perfunctory feel of today’s proceedings, they possessed far more substance than anything that came out of Rick Santorum’s mouth<\/a>\u00a0as he was grandstanding on the courthouse steps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today’s arguments before the Supreme Court on the Affordable Care Act were something of a necessary formality, involving arcane jurisdictional issues that likely won’t prevent the Court from ruling on the key questions regarding the constitutionality of the individual mandate and the Medicaid expansion. Those arguments are still to come and should provide plenty of […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law","category-20-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-PN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3211"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3212,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3211\/revisions\/3212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}