[aruanan]

I’m about 2/3 of the way reading the transcripts, and the gummint is arguing for severability.

It had its chance for severability but turned it down because it said the individual mandate was the linchpin of the entire law and that none of it would work apart from the whole. It's too late to claim they want something they already rejected in order to save their sorry asses. That's as stupid as Sotomayor asking why Congress couldn't work all this out. The Democrat Congress did, and that's why it's at the Supreme Court.

[djf]

Actually, IMHO, Sotomayer is asking some pretty relevant questions, going back to Constitutional basis and case law.

Kagen, OTOH, is getting chewed up and spit out every time she opens her mouth.

Oh well.

After Ginsburg retires, at least we will still have one box-o-rocks on the bench...