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
tomorrow. we are getting from the left jeffrey toobin, who is a liberal commentator called this a train wreck for the obama administration. kennedy is a lost cause. the solicitor general did a poor job defending the law. clement did an excellent job attacking the law. based on what i heard today this law is in grave grave trouble. i largely agree with what jay said. justice kennedy did express more scepticism about the mandate than any of us anticipated. on the other hand as jay point out, it is really hazardous to try to read the tea leaves on members of the court s questioning. frequently they ask questions to play devil s advocates. it isn t necessarily a bomb
justice anthony kennedy as we ve been saying for many weeks now may be the man this entire healthcare law comes down this. this is why a lot of people said justice kennedy is the most powerful man in america, it s not president obama, and it s not just on issues like healthcare. he is the critical swing vote on this case according to most court watchers, and he has some harsh criticisms for the individual mandate today asking one of the lawyers, the lawyer for the government to speak to what kennedy called a quote, very heavy burden of justification, to show where the constitution authorizes congress to take this kind of sweeping action. tom goldstein runs the top supreme court blog in the country. i recommend you check it out. he left the courtroom to file this update on the argument just about ten minutes before it ended. the individual mandate is in trouble, significant trouble. it s too early to tell whether it will be struck down, but the courts four conservative membe
short time ago signaling he may not be buying the government s argument either. the mandate that requires all americans to purchase health insurance or pay a fine is constitutional. justice anthony kennedy as we ve been saying for many weeks now may be the man this entire healthcare law comes down this. this is why a lot of people said justice kennedy is the most powerful man in america, it s not president obama, and it s not just on issues like healthcare. he is the critical swing vote on this case according to most court watchers, and he has some harsh criticisms for the individual mandate today asking one of the lawyers, the lawyer for the government to speak to what kennedy called a quote, very heavy burden of justification, to show where the constitution authorizes congress to take this kind of sweeping action. tom goldstein runs the top supreme court blog in the country. i recommend you check it out. he left the courtroom to file this update on the argument just about t
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