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[Today] is Obamacare Decisionmas.
Don’t act like you haven’t been waiting for this moment all your life.
Or, at least, you’ve been waiting for the endless whining to – please,
God, make it stop – from the left to
abate,
[...]
- SCOTUS strikes down individual
mandate in a 5-4 decision, but keeps the full law pending it’s actual
enforcement, a la Arizona. It’s likely the Attorneys general only have
the capacity to sue on the single issue of state-based expenditures.
- John Roberts writes, because that’s
what John Roberts does. And he’s a smarty pants, and he hasn’t managed
to eek out an opinion since May.
- Scalia concurs, but writes his own
lengthy opinion, determining that the whole thing should be trashed on
Commerce Clause grounds, despite having the exact opposite opinion in Gonzalez
v. California.
- Ginsberg writes the dissent on paper
that has been caressed by Breyer’s tears. Sotomayor and Kagan
concur.
[...]
"In
addition, I hope, if the mandate goes down,"
- someone
on television cries. My guess is Ed Schultz, but I’d be willing to
extend that guess to Andrew Sullivan, though that’s more of an outside
bet.
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