As the Supreme Court considers whether the Obama administration can force Hobby Lobby to buy morning-after pills under the Affordable Care Act, the very architecture of that law is on trial one mile away at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. The question is nominally one of a technical issue in the Affordable Care Act but is more deeply one of the nature of the presidency: Is the president bound by law, or can he unilaterally overrule Congress when he deems it prudent?
Will we be governed under law, or under presidential decree?
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