requirement for americans to buy insurance. justice scalia attempted to educate the president s lawyers about the mandate. listen. you are not regulating health care, you are regulating insurance. it s the insurance market that you are addressing and you are saying that some people who are not in it must be in it. and that s that s different from regulating in any matter, commerce that already exists out thri. sean: also today, justice anthony kennedy, likely to be the deciding vote in this case voiced his skepticism of obamacare s constitutionality. listen to this. the reason this is concerning is because it requires the individual to do an affirmative act in the law of torts, our tradition, our law has been if you don t have the duty to rescue someone, if that person s in danger, the blind man s walking in front of the car, you do not have a duty tow stop him, absent some relation between
justice kennedy today asking some key questions. can you create commerce in order to regulate it? when you are changing the relation of the individual to the government in this what we can stipulate is, i think a unique way, do you not have a heavy burden of justification to show authorization under the constitution? the reason this is concerning is because it requires the individual to do an affirmative act. in the law of torts, our tradirks our law has been that you don t have the duty tow rescue someone if that person s in danger. and here the government is saying that the federal government has a duty tow tell the individual citizen that it must act. and that is different from what we have in previous cases. that changes the relationship of the federal government to the individual in a very fundamental way. greta: shannon bream was
every their view. and also alito did not express as much scepticism is a would have expected and i think alito s vote is in play. i think jeffrey toobin is an excellent commentators. but his declarations of the death of this are premature at this point. meg thomas gold sign said even though he thinks it went poorly today he thinks once they get behind closed doors the liberals will find that fifth vote. i want to play a little bit of justice kennedy. here is justice kennedy. the man everybody believes it will come down to. let the viewers hear whether they find scepticism in this questioning. i think this is him questioning the government s lawyer. the reason this is concerning is because it requires the individual to do an affirmative
to have health insurance. it s scheduled to take effect in 2014. it imposes a financial penalty for not having health insurance. let s get right to today s hearing. what went on inside the court. our senior legal analyst jeffrey toobin and our congressional correspondent kate baldwin were both inside the courtroom. jeff, you said based on what you heard in the courtroom, you think the court is likely right now to overturn this individual mandate. you just tweeted, i was looking at your twitter, you tweeted this was a train wreck for the obama administration. what happened? well, you saw right out of the bofrm three conservative justices just go after the solicitor general donald ver rilly. anthony scalia not a surprise. samuel, and anthony kennedy also who is usually the swing vote, expressing nothing but skepticism about the constitutionality. clarence thomas didn t say anything. john roberts to my surprise was the most sympathetic of the conservatives to the obama adminis
door during a flight across the country screaming there s a bomb. we ll take you inside jetblue flight 191. we he begin with the drama still unfolding on capitol hill. members of congress heard from the parents of trayvon martin. he is of course the florida teenager shot and killed last month by george zimmerman who has not been arrested or charged with any crime. the grieving parents met with house democrats. they insist their son was shot because he was black. i d like to say thank you, thank you for the support. as i said before and i ll say it again, trayvon was our son, but trayvon is your son. thank you to everyone who is supportive of our family, everyone who has helped us stand tall in this matter. at a time investigators are asking for calm and for time, the martin family supporters in congress are only escalating their rhetoric. this investigation is laceded with racial profiling, lies, and murder. trayvon was hunted, chased, tackled and shot. ill conceived