Washington, DC, A circus-like atmosphere was on display in front of the Supreme Court as demonstrators for and against President Obama's health-care law made their voices heard.

Washington, DC, A circus-like atmosphere was on display in front of the Supreme Court as demonstrators for and against President Obama's health-care law made their voices heard.

Photograph

Lucian Perkins

Maker
American, b. 1953

Washington, DC, A circus-like atmosphere was on display in front of the Supreme Court as demonstrators for and against President Obama's health-care law made their voices heard.

Inside the Supreme Court Justices heard the final arguments over the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, which brought out the ideological divide within the court, as well as the rest of the country.


March 28, 2012
Inkjet print, printed 2012
Overall: 19.5 x 27.5 cm (7 11/16 x 10 13/16 in.)
Image: 16.9 x 25.3 cm (6 5/8 x 9 15/16 in.)
Purchase with funds from the Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, 2012
2012.0800.0019
Inscriptions recto (marker): 3 \ [check mark]

[no inscription verso]

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