If you tally up the words spoken by each of the justices, it looks like the individual mandate could be in serious trouble.
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The Nine Circles of the ACA
By Wednesday afternoon, the Supreme Court was pondering whether Congress itself was unconstitutional.
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Verrilli’s Courage Under Fire
Despite conventional wisdom on the left that the U.S. solicitor general buckled under attacks from the Supreme Court’s conservative justices, he in fact stood his ground.
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The Unsurprising Possibility that the Court Could Strike Down the ACA
The legal health care battle is foremost a political match, which means precedents don’t matter quite as much.
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Americans Prefer Having Cake, Eating It
Sometimes you have to just ignore public opinion.
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Why “Obamacare” (the Name) Won’t Matter
Believe it or not, we’ll stop talking about it in a few years.
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Will the Supreme Court Duck Health Care?
The Supreme Court has methods of getting out of politically contentious cases, but it doesn’t need to wield them for this week’s big case.
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The Supreme Court, Health Care Reform, and Electoral Politics
How might the Court’s decision affect the politics of the issue for the election?
