Posted on 03/27/2012 1:02:34 PM PDT by Semper911
CNN Legal Analyst Jeffrey Toobin said that it was a rough day for the Obama administration, as lawyers worked to defend the Obamacare's individual mandate.
"This was a train wreck for the Obama administration," Tobin said. "This law looks like it's going to be struck down. I'm telling you, all of the predictions including mine that the justices would not have a problem with this law were wrong."
Tobin said that U.S. Solicitor General David Verrilli was woefully unprepared in his defense.
"I don't know why he had a bad day, he is a good lawyer, he was a perfectly fine lawyer in the really sort of tangential argument yesterday. He was not ready for the answers for the conservative justices," he said.
"If I had to bet today I would bet that this court is going to strike down the individual mandate." he said.
Tobin was not alone in his analysis. NBC's Justice corespondent Pete Williams was also skeptical.
"It would seem at this point in the process that I think it's very doubtful that the court is going to find the health care law constitutional," he said, "I don't see five votes to find the law constitutional."
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SoFloFreeper wrote:
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I agree...the Obama regime doesn’t give a damn about judicial decisions that go against them. They ignored the first judge who ruled it unconstitutional...and they ignored the judge who ruled against their drilling moratorium.
They don’t care about the law.
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I’m wondering... Do you think Obama and the Dems would be brazen enough to still carry through with implementing Obamacare, mandate and all, if the Supreme Court were to strike it down. If Obama and the Department of Justice decided to take a defiant “well, we’re going to do it anyway, so try and stop us” position, what would happen?
The Republican RINO’s would have just given the money to their supporters instead, so that’s a wash.
The financial regulations will be repealed.
And DADT can be reinstated by the next Republican president too.
Like I said the Democrats threw all their power away for nothing.
Yep. Laws are for little people.
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