Obamacare et la Cour suprême: derrières les portes closes

Étape moins spectaculaire, mais beaucoup plus importante...

 "he public drama surrounding the Supreme Court's extraordinary three-day review of President Obama's health care reform law has faded, but the real intrigue has just begun. You just won't see it, and the final yet-unwritten chapter will come unannounced.

 The nine justices met privately Friday in their weekly closed-door conference, and were expected to vote -- at least preliminarily -- on the four healthcare cases. Writing assignments will now be made, and the weeks-long process of crafting opinions will commence -- a tedious, arduous, often contentious exercise in judicial craftsmanship and diplomacy. And all of this will be done in secret -- no press releases, no leaked behind-the-scenes spin.

 "This case is on a rocket ship," said Thomas Goldstein, a Washington lawyer and publisher of SCOTUSblog.com. "Because there may be as many as four decisions, the justices work collaboratively. The majority opinion writer circulates it for other people to comment, dissenters will circulate their opinions and that process will go back and forth, back and forth until about mid-June, when they will just get down to finalize it."

The opinion-writing exercise is little-known, and the court likes it that way. Only the justices and their law clerks will have any real idea how these rulings will be framed and crafted. Consistently predicting the outcome is a time-honored Washington parlor game, but rarely successful."

http://www.cnn.com/2012/03/30/politics/scotus-health-care-whats-next/index.html