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ShannonBream: SCOTUS: plenty of q's from J Kennedy - 1st - how does my failure to purchase something make me subject to regulation? Janet Adamy @janetadamy #supremecourt WSJ's Kendall Verrilli shifts to another part of his argument: that insurance mandate is permissible under gov's tax authority janetadamy: #supremecourt WSJ's Kendall: This argument hits resistance. Kagan noted the determined efforts of Congress not to label the penalties a tax. #supremecourt WSJ''s Kendall: Scalia said, The president said it wasn't a tax, didn't he? Garrett Love ‏ @Garrett_Love RT @KansasSitySinic: "Every question Kennedy asked seemed skeptical of the law." -CNN #healthcare #SupremeCourt Avik Roy: latest from SCOTUSblog: A quick update from the steps. Towards the end of the argument the most important question was Justice Kennedy’s. After pressing the government with great questions Kennedy raised the possibility that the plaintiffs were right that the mandate was a unique effort to force people into commerce to subsidize health insurance but the insurance market may be unique enough to justify that unusual treatment. But he didn’t overtly embrace that. It will be close. Very close.

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“fter pressing the government with great questions Kennedy raised the possibility that the plaintiffs were right that the mandate was a unique effort to force people into commerce to subsidize health insurance but the insurance market may be unique enough to justify that unusual treatment. But he didn’t overtly embrace that. It will be close. Very close.”

Disappointing.