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Straight from republican debate stage to the united states supreme court. >> you really want us to go through these 2,700 pages? [ laughter ] >> and do you really expect the court to do that or do you expect us to give this function to our law clerks? is this not totally unrealistic? that we're going to go through this enormous bill item by item and decide each one? >> perhaps the most egregious example of partisan political rhetoric slow creep into the supreme court in this case is the case of the notorious cornhusker kickback. when they needed support, democratic leaders offered nebraska sen...

Finish line. >> outrage of the so-called corn husker kick back for the state of nebraska. >> one deal for one state and another state. >> the cornhusker kickback has become a political cancer. >> everyone was outraged about ben nelson's sweetheart deal including justice scalia. >> if we struck down nothing in this legislation but what it's called, the cornhusker kickback, we find that to violate the constitutional proscription of venality [ laughter ] >> very funny justice. the main thing about the cornhusker kick back is it did not make it into the final bill. it was removed. it's not part of...

>> and do you really expect the court to do that or do you expect us to give this function to our law clerks? is this not totally unrealistic? that we're going to go through this enormous bill item by item and decide each one? >> perhaps the most egregious example of partisan political rhetoric slow creep into the supreme court in this case is the case of the notorious cornhusker kickback. when they needed support, democratic leaders offered nebraska senator ben nelson and exemption from his state for its share of the medicaid expansion of the bill and that dubbed the corn husker kickback beca...

Amendment? you really want us to go through these 2,700 pages? and do you really expect the court to do that? or do you expect us to give this function to our law clerks? >> he also had a little line in there about the corn husker kickbacks. >> the administration thinks that it's clear that the majority of justices are against severability. and could help them win over the reluctant justice kennedy and they still believe chief roberts is still in play and might want to write a very narrow opinion that would up dlrz hold the law if the court is going in that direction. third, the white house al...

Legislative votes and the last hold out on the health care vote in 2009, securing what was known as the corn husker kickback, special insert for nebraska requiring the federal government cover the laws' medicaid expansion, but that was later removed. republicans accused the democrats of buying the vote, and others are reminding voters of it. from that deal, republicans say they felt they had enough momentum to defeat nelson in twelve -- in 2012 and now political analysts considered nebraska a toss up in 1212 and the senate is very much in play in 2012 with democrats controlling the senate with...