Weekly Round-Up for March 30th

As always, here are the links to the weeks best and most interesting stories:

There were, conservatively, 74,205 different columns this week on the Affordable Care Act, and I can't link to them all.

Here's Slate's page with ALL their stories on it. 

Salon explains that in landmark cases, ideology often trumps precedent. 

David Franklin suggests Roberts will maneuver the Court into a narrow avoidance of the real issues in the healthcare cases being heard this week. 

The New York Times has a handy interactive guide to the three-day hearing here, if you want background.

Andrew Koppelman gives his take on the healthcare cases. 

As does Rebecca Buckwalter-Poza.

Representative Dave Camp's aide won't give his wife a get (a religious divorce in Orthodox Judaism). Mark Oppenheimer explains why Rep. Camp probably can't force him to do it unless he wants a Civil Rights Claim on his hands. 

Does Congress have the authority to allow Americans born in Jerusalem to claim Israel as their birthplace? The Supreme Court doesn't want to decide, so they're going to let a lower court figure it out. 

At Salon, Linda Hirshman describes the New Hampshire GOP's evolving relationship with gay marriage. 

In Canada, the Ontario Supreme Court struck down restrictions on sex work, legalizing brothels in that province. 

A Federal Judge in Michigan acquitted militia members of sedition.

Andrew O'Heir writes a really interesting piece at Salon about the MPAA's strange decision to give a documentary called "Bully" an R rating, and the fight brewing about it. 

As you may have heard, a conservative organization had official plans to pit gays and blacks against each other.