Three cheers for the Aug. 14 editorial ?Health care and the Constitution,? which pointed out the ?ideologically mixed nature of the majority and dissent? in the ruling against the individual insurance mandate by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit.
In these partisan days, it is important to point out that the decisions of federal appellate judges are not predictably aligned with the matter of whether they are Democrats and Republicans.� �
An independent judiciary means that judges decide cases on the basis of the facts and the law, not on the party of the president who nominated them or on which way the partisan political winds are blowing at the time. While federal judges are required by oath to put aside political bias, there is a lesson here for members of Congress and our president as well. �
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