court litigator and, tom, i was rivetted to your web site this morning. you had it before anybody had it in term ors of the decision. they live blog the decisions, folks, so if you want to get up to the second information, go to blog.com. down to brass tacks. the big, big decision comes out thursday, and already people like you are handicapping which justice has written which opinion and which justice has yet to issue a majority opinion in a big case, and you think you may know who authored the health care decision. who do you think it s going to be? well, i think it s the chief justice. i don t know that he ll put his name on it because it s the accumulation of the work of several of the justices, but the justices really try and spread out their work, and the chief justice from the end of the term didn t end up writing any major opinions, and with the health care case still out there, it seems likely this ll be principally his work, and that s no surprise. he has taken on the leader
justice documents that the doj refuses to turn over. details on that immediately after this break. and did nbc news just give a get-out-of-jail-free-card to jerry sandusky? the penn state football coach convicted on child sexual assault charges late on friday evening, but wait until you see how one key piece of evidence could apparently, according to some, make for a strong appeal. the judge in this case was marvelous, judge clean was the ultimate jurorrist, he was fair, he was firm, he was reasonable with everything we asked for, the only disagreement obviously we had was our request for a continuance. # are you receiving a payout from a legal settlement or annuity over 10 or even 20 years? call imperial structured settlements. the experts at imperial can convert your long-term payout into a lump sum of cash today.
down this law in large measure. those four critical provisions all struck down. it went up to the u.s. supreme court. justice kagan did not participate, she s a left-leaning justice, because she worked on the case when she was working for the obama administration at the doj in the solicitor general s office. so it was 4-4. we had four conservatives, four liberals, and they did uphold one provision but struck down the other three. you heard governor brewer say they upheld the heart of the law, they upheld the part where the majority of the concern was. that was how she phrased it. it is the part that they spent the most time on at oral argument, the high court, the part that they upheld. the other three will now falter, and arizona is now free to inquire as to someone s immigration status and to detain that person under certain circumstances if they have reasonable suspicion upon pulling that person over, etc., into immigration status. the arizona ruling now behind us, folks. although,
obama and eric holder have talked about more controversial aspects of this case? the gun walking tactics that were used? to i don t know. i have heard the attorney general testified that they have not talked about it. i believe that to be the case. you know, the five minutes they have talked about the public coverage of it, but i have no idea about the underlying operation. megyn: is a person who is a spokesperson for the doj, one of the categories of documents that they are withholding from chairman isaiah is media discussions. discussions within your department. do you think that is appropriate because even folks who have been defending the doj on this have said, really, we can t even know what the media people were saying to one another about this? powers that fall under a deliberative process? well, what it has to do it is you have to look at where chairman issa started. first i m just all the information that happened in fast and furious. then he asked all the information that
forget calling the cops, call animal control. a pair of black bears sparring in the middle of someone s front yard near orlando. look at them. they re kind of play fighting, right? they were only there a few minutes, but they managed to do plenty of damage to the homeowner s bushes and garden. [laughter] well, a group that calls itself the voice of small business is now coming under attack from some on the left. the national federation of independent business, nfib, is one of the leading plaintiffs in the health care lawsuit that we re now awaiting a decision on. three days away, we re told, from the supreme court decision on this case. and now democrats appear to be turning up the heat on this group, questioning its very motives. stu varney is the anchor of varney & company on fox business network and joins me now. the nfib s behind the health care challenge for some time, just now they re coming under fire and from whom?