signature legislative achievement the patient production and affordable care act is now in the hands of the nine supreme court justices. a look at the highs and lows of the proceedings. wall street columnist, dan henninger, joe, and opinion.com editor james toronto. so, momentous week at the court, fascinating week. before the week, the conventional wisdom, this is an easy call, the law is going to be upheld. at the end of the week, you could almost feel the shift during the course of the week and at the end, even the left was saying, now, there s a very good chance that part or all of this law could go down. yeah, and the big news was justice anthony kennedy. justice scalia was comically judicious, look how many times it says laughter in the transcript. and he s taking serious where the states are the plaintiffs in the case, both the argument that the individual mandate and that you have to buy insurance is unconstitutional, it exceeds congress s legitimate power and the a
henninger, joe, and opinion.com editor james toronto. so, momentous week at the court, fascinating week. before the week, the conventional wisdom, this is an easy call, the law is going to be upheld. at the end of the week, you could almost feel the shift during the course of the week and at the end, even the left was saying, now, there s a very good chance that part or all of this law could go down. yeah, and the big news was justice anthony kennedy. justice scalia was comically judicious, look how many times it says laughter in the transcript. and he s taking serious where the states are the plaintiffs in the case, both the argument that the individual mandate and that you have to buy insurance is unconstitutional, it exceeds congress s legitimate power and the argument that if the individual mandate falls the best remedy is to strike down the entire law. paul: let s here the first, on the individual mandate. hear from justice kennedy. saying that the federal governme
signature legislative achievement the patient production and affordable care act is now in the hands of the nine supreme court justices. a look at the highs and lows of the proceedings. wall street columnist, dan henninger, joe, and opinion.com editor james toronto. so, momentous week at the court, fascinating week. before the week, the conventional wisdom, this is an easy call, the law is going to be upheld. at the end of the week, you could almost feel the shift during the course of the week and at the end, even the left was saying, now, there s a very good chance that part or all of this law could go down. yeah, and the big news was justice ant justice scalia was comically judicious, look how many times it says laughter in the transcript. and he s taking serious where the states are the plaintiffs in the case, both the argument that the individual mandate and that you have to buy insurance is unconstitutional, it exceeds congress s legitimate power and the argument that
nothing says the holidays like a warm pie. we have the folks from bic over in the studio next door cook up a pie. we will check in with a pie. we will check in with pie. we will check in with them. this is charlie and new member of the team. and i want you to meet pu. mba, the dog up for adoption. and it s so cool. a mexican hairless mix. give the dog a chance. he is so cute. i may adopt him myself. and like samuel l. jackson said as jewels in pulp fiction said, personality goes a long way. first, abc2 news on the go once again this morning. we are headed back to to easton but for a very unique reason. lynette charles joins us from the annual water fall festival how is it going. reporter: it s absolutely beautiful. you should be here. and i know you will be jealous because i have the beauty. show them what we have here. we are looking at a sculpture from fred boyar. we will talk to him in a while. but look at the sights that can show you some of my favorites as of now
occasion or two. but to give the depth of this man s memory, i had been to nevada and he asked me when i came back, what did you do? i said, senator byrd i pulled a book out of my library on the way back. it was a paperback and i read the adventures of robinson caruso. and he looked at me and held his head back a little bit and he said, robinson caruso, and he proceeded to tell me how long he had been on that island, 28 years, three months, a week and two days or whatever it was. i was stunned. i didn t know i went back and pulled the book out to see if he was right and he was right. he probably hadn t read that book in 35, 40 years. but he knew that. what a mind. it was really stunning the man s memory.