[RummyChick]

lyle :”Interesting, at least to scholars, that while the mandate and its attached penalty are a tax for purposes of its constitutionality, but not for the Anti-Injunction Act. If it were a tax for AIA purposes, this case would not have been decided re the mandate. “

[newzjunkey]

That's quite interesting. Since the Court decided the "individual mandate" was a tax, under the Anti-Injunction Act (AIA), federal courts should not be hearing ObamaCare cases until it's fully implemented and someone pays a penalty in 2015. That's what the 4th Circuit found while two other Circuits believed AIA didn't apply to the mandate.

Bizarre.

[StAnDeliver]

Right, the whole maj decision is a cheat to avoid addressing the Severability Clause. It smacks of Warren/Burger-era paralogisms...