High drama
All eyes are on the U.S. Supreme Court, which is weighing whether to overturn President Obama’s health care law, strike down parts of it, or leave it whole. A presidential election could hang on the decision, expected next month. Linda Greenhouse ’68 has already made up her mind. The law is constitutional and should stand, said the Yale Law School lecturer in a talk last week at the Boston Public Library’s Honan-Allston Branch, the final event in the John Harvard Book Celebration. “I think as a judge, Chief Justice [John] Roberts will have an awfully hard time explaining to the public why this should be overturned by five unelected justices,” said Greenhouse, former Supreme Court reporter for The New York Times and author of “The U.S. Supreme Court: A Very Short Introduction.” The health care ruling is just one of several important decisions ahead. The high court is taking up Arizona’s controversial immigration...