[Unrepentant VN Vet]

My thought is that the individual mandate will be struck down, but Kennedy not having the cajones to invalidate the whole law based on inseverability.

I beg to differ.

The basic reason given for the appeal IS the Serverability issue.

The rest of it (including individual mandate) is secondary. For now.

JMHO, this is going to turn into less of a question of "Is Justice Kennedy going to have a bad hair day" than "Does the ENTIRE court believe in the Constitution and the Rule of Law", because if that atrocious mess gets upheld in any part, the people who voted for it can credit themselves with the destruction of their jobs along with the very things they swore to uphold and defend.

Somebody's just drawn a line in the sand, not just filed an appeal.

No wiggle room, no BS, no more half measures. Either the Law means something or it doesn't.

[American Quilter]

As I understand it, if the mandate is struck down, it makes the rest of the act unworkable; the non-health-care system will quickly run out of money if the socialists can’t seize money from our bank accounts every month for this new atrocity. Do I understand this correctly, UVNV?