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The Supreme Court’s decision in United States v. Texas to expand the scope of its review of the case by adding the constitutional question of whether President Obama violated the “Take Care” clause naturally generates great speculation as to why it did so. Regardless of Justice’s motives, however, the choice to do so confirms a continuing boldness on the part of some members of the Court to reach and decide constitutional conflicts in controversial cases that could have been resolved on narrower grounds.
