Category:Windows maintenanceAlthough the Republican-dominated Supreme Court sent the federal government a resounding message in the week after the November election, it has been a very different story for the Republican Party's dominance in state legislatures.
"Even though the Court's decision was a good-news win for the plaintiffs, it's a major loss for those who seek to take the country back from the activist Court," said Thomas Wolf, president of the American Center for Law and Justice.
"One hundred and seventy-two Republican governors of state governments and their state legislative allies, sitting atop the Constitution, have now been declared the losers of the political war waged over the past seven years," Wolf said. "It's one of the biggest political stories in recent years, but it still remains largely underreported in the media."
In its 2010 decision, the Supreme Court decided that a ruling in favor of the President Barack Obama's health care plan was unconstitutional because it had exceeded the scope of the Commerce Clause of the U.S. Constitution.
That, in effect, gave the power back to the states and gave a boost to the conservative movement that had been losing ground on Capitol Hill since 2008, said former Republican state legislator, political strategist and commentator Ralph Reed.
"It gives their party an advantage going into the next election, as well as a few years of a big tent with those on the conservative end of the spectrum, but also those on the right that are not necessarily totally far right, but still sort of of middle-of-the-road," Reed said.
Dismantling ObamaCare
The Supreme Court also overturned a lower court ruling that upheld the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
The decision effectively dismantles the entire federal health care overhaul, but GOP control of state governments could also mean trouble for the president-elect.
Several of the measures passed by state legislatures to nullify the national health care law have been challenged in federal courts. The next step, according to experts, would be a decision by the Supreme Court on whether to hear an appeal.
"We could end up with multiple cases at once," said Wolf.
"The landscape is changing for state sovereignty from the battlefield back to the statehouse," said Paul Spindell, associate counsel for the American Center for Law and Justice.
Justices of the state courts on the right side of the political spectrum could end up in a court battle and put a new set of eyes on 82fe58eafd

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