[djf]

YIKES!!!!!

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

You know what might happen?

They might strike the individual mandate, but LEAVE THE TAXES AND PENALTIES IN PLACE!!!

DOUBLE YIKES!!!!!

[ctdonath2]

The individual mandate is all about the penalty: no penalty = no mandate.

So whadja read that makes you come to a different conclusion? Don’t have time to read the transcript today.

[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.