The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward comeuppance.
There has been much commentary on the political impact of a pending Supreme Court ruling in King v. Burwell, the lawsuit arguing that a handful of words in the Affordable Care Act should be ripped out of context in order to invalidate Obamacare subsidies on the federal health-insurance exchange. It's a novel, spectacularly cynical, argument (full explanation outsourced to Jonathan Chait). If the court endorses it, the short-term and long-term political consequences may be very different.
