Ginsburg: Don't count on fast-track SCOTUS health care review

By Kimberly Atkins Dolan Media Newswires BOSTON, MA--Virginia's attorney general and others may want the challenge to the health care overhaul law fast tracked to the U.S. Supreme Court, but Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg put the brakes on that notion. During a conversation with NPR's legal correspondent Nina Totenberg at an event at George Washington University, Ruth Bader Ginsburg said the justices don't rush to take up a case just because those bringing the challenge want them to, or because the issue has been the subject of hot national debate. ''The court itself is a reactive institution,'' Ginsburg told Totenberg, according to the GW Hatchet. ''We don't decide, 'We better get this or that case sooner rather than later.''' Letting the case work its way through the lower appellate courts first has its benefits, Ginsburg said. ''We have a range of views before us and can make a better informed decision,'' Ginsburg said. Entire contents copyrighted © 2011 by Dolan Media Company. All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part without written permission is expressly forbidden. Published: Thu, Feb 24, 2011